Frankie Deges has been writing about Argentine and South American rugby for well over three decades, having travelled the world following Los Pumas' fortunes. He has covered 300 tests – which involved 37 different nations, in five continents –and he has been to every mayor playing nation in the world and a large number of less developed rugby countries. He has worked either as a journalist or in Media Operations for the last seven Rugby World Cups. Based in Buenos Aires, he writes for magazines, newspapers and websites, as well as broadcasting in both Spanish and English.
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Starting Gonzalo Garcia at scrumhalf is a true statement of how Argentina plan to take on France, and shackle the best player in t…
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Ireland continues to be the one place in the oval world that Argentina has not won in. All the other mayor countries have been def…
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Ireland has always been a place where performance levels drop for Los Pumas, who have never been able to win in 11 previous visits…
There were a lot of positives to carry on going into a much harder proposition in six days when they play Ireland at the Aviva on …
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Decorated as a player, the Argentine icon takes charge of his first Test as head coach on Saturday.
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