Undressed: the anger of the Pumas, folded by a referee

They lost against South Africa To by 42 to 36; the shameful failures deprived them of an historical conquest

PRETORIA, South Africa. - Van 45 minutes of second and sounds the siren that indicates the end of the net time. Argentina To desire by 36-35. It is an historical conquest (never a greater equipment of our country surpassed to South African selecting in official shocks). He commits knock-on within his 22 yards Mark Andrews, but the referee lets follow. South Africa is hopeless To, tacklean the Argentineans… Van 48 minutes, but the judge does not occur by alluded. He obtains his intention: to be well with its people and to do a favor to him to an overflowed local set. The Argentine defense is open and Dean Hall arrives with great power to complete the unusual victory from South Africa To by 42-36 (Du Toit contributed the conversion). Argentina To finishes being undressed of a legitimate success, constructed on a effort outside the common thing, and the tendencioso referee Jamiel Tanday retires smiling of PAM Brink Stadium.

It is difficult to become lost in thought itself of the sensations to objectively analyze the presentation of the Pumas in South Africa. The same impotence that pushed out of position to the players arrived us at the tribune. Until the foreign colleagues they whispered: "the referee is not behaving very well with the Argentineans". And such South African players, when they interchanged the t-shirts, requested excuses. The set of Loffreda and Baetti permanently was harmed by Tanday, whose performance was crowned with that follows follows that it facilitated the rescuing conquest.

The outcome does not have to diminish the great work of the soldiers of Argentina To , the second national formation, because they were given with the heart before a more powerful opponent and obtained one of the best productions of the last years. Fundamentally by how everything began: with a South African alluvium and the prefeeling of which it would be a resounding fall.

With a tremendous physical rigor, South Africa To devastated in the 25 initial minutes (18-0). First it was Coetzee, after line and a vigorous entrance of the giant Andrews, but the action that made imagine the worse thing was in charge of Hall: wing ran 70 meters in diagonal until the right flag; try spectacular.

Nevertheless, Argentina did not give in an unequal fight and Durand - one of the figures completed an interesting group advance after line and supported stimulating try. The South African dominion was not appeased and Scholtz returned to mark, but Juan Fernandez Miranda, with a small hat , generated a counterattack sensational that Giannantonio defined to close the partisan 12-25.

Although Sephaka extended the differences in the starting of the complement (32-12), Argentina To reacted of formidable way. Click took place with the interception of Núñez Piossek , and with the quick one run from its 40 yards to write down the third conquest. The South Africans changed the pair of means - entered Van der Westhuizen and Du Toit -, but the control was Argentine. The extraordinary defensive task and the anger to go towards ahead, without concerning the risks ( forwards deployed extraordinary ), became the common denominator of led by Nico the Fernandez Miranda. The will to attack finished with the tries of Senillosa and Sporleder. In order to weigh: what the third line did (Ostiglia, Bouza and Durand), more Ledesma and Stortoni.

The wonderful performance of Argentina To is what will remain in the memory. The result? It does not matter. The South Africans won, but the honor of rugby Argentine was well high, thanks to these players, in the same cradle of the international takeoff…