2024-07-24 12:47:07
The Pumas became a power in the sevens modality in recent years, making them one of Argentina’s trump cards for the start of the Olympic modality of this discipline, which was introduced in Rio 2016 and has an express duration. The Paris 2024 Sevens will start on Wednesday and end on Saturday.
The team Argentinian was Bronze in the last edition of Tokyo while it stood out in the last World Series, with a second place in 2023 and repeating silver in 2024, although with a different format (a final was established, which was lost after finishing first in the regular season, which was previously enough to be champion).
Thus, those led by Santiago Gómez Cora They will debut at 11 against Kenya while at 14:30 they will face Samoa. The group will be closed on Thursday when, from 9:30, they face Australia. All matches can be seen on TyC Sports.
Many of the albiceleste hopes will be placed on Marcos Moneta, a prominent figure in Tokyo and who is recovering from a fibula fracture. The other big name on the team is Rodrigo Isgrobut the man from Mendoza will only be able to play in a hypothetical medal match since he arrives with a suspension of five dates after being expelled in the final of the World Series against France, another of the candidates for gold.
Los Pumas Seven lineup today vs Kenya
The team is then made up of the Captain Santiago Alvarez FourcadeAmong the reserves are Santiago Vera Feld and Isgró.
The competition in Paris consists of three groups of four teams eachwith the top two teams from each group advancing to the quarter-finals. As there are eight places in the quarter-finals, the teams that finish seventh and eighth in the general table once the group stage has concluded will also qualify.
The Pumas 7s are in Zone B: if they finish first, they will play fourth against the seventh in the general classification (Thursday at 17:30) while if they finish second they will face the second in C (Thursday at 16:30), group made up of Fiji, United States, France and Uruguay. The A, meanwhile, has Ireland, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa.
The semi-finals will be played on Saturday between 10:30 and 11 a.m., while the gold medal match will be at 2:45 p.m. (the bronze medal match at 2 p.m.). All matches will be played at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.
The historical power of the discipline is the Fijians, winners of gold in 2016 and 2021, champions of the last World Cup (2022) but third behind Argentina in the last World Series. The Oceanians have a history of 12 games in the Olympic Games, with 12 victories.