"We gave to return an historical party, but they robbed to us"

Nicholas said to it to the captain Fernandez Miranda; "They played with 16", commented Méndez

PRETORIA, South Africa (Of a special envoy). - Impotence and quarrel in the amplest sense of the words. The way in which the arduous battle (that is what was) in the Pumas Stadium was defined was the blow fuller than they received the Argentineans. Nor the hardness in the contact with the South African fortísimos hit so much in the humanity of the men from Argentina To like the influential performance of the referee.

There were some lost tears, a comprehensible signal of the deep indignation that seized of the establishment (including leaders and close friends). Nobody could understand what there was past, how they had been so coarsely punished.

One of the most affected by the incalificable parcialidad of the judge was the captain Nicholas Fernandez Miranda, who needed a good short while to calm. "the only sensation that I have is of fever , the truth is that I cannot think what happened. We gave to return an historical party, but they robbed to us. By these words I must ask excuses the people of rugby, but it cannot understand what the referee did to us. When one formed a scrum (after the siren) said we that needed a minute, and played three or… I cannot four more believe it ", commented means-scrum.

"We played a party against equipazo and I believe that, reason why we did in the field and by the attitude of the second time, we deserved to win. But against external things of the game I could not be fought ", added to Fernandez Miranda.

The lamentable performance of local judge Tanday also transformed into the central subject for the trainer Marcelo Loffreda: " This was I mistreat incredible. I generally do not like to speak of these things nor of I referred, but everything has a limit , and what happened here exceeded all the well-known and to know. Beyond all these sensations other people's to the game, I go away totally gratificado with the reaction of the equipment. The performance of Argentina sets the standard to us of which we are in favor of the good way. Here one saw that both equipment responds, that all are consustanciados with which they must do, because it was very difficult to really raise to this party and profit '."

Federico Méndez said: " They played with 16, but this encounter we gained. We lost by a decree of the referee , and éso the South Africans felt it. I go away with the security of which the triumph corresponded to us."

Hurting. The debut of Argentina To left a single player hurt: Mario Ledesma. National hooker went of the field with a traumatismo in the left elbow (could be a problem with some ligament) and in the today day amanece will be seen how, but it could be left to the margin the test-match of the day after tomorrow, in Springs, the goodbye of the tour.

Contepomi, better. The one that it evolves favorably of his annoyance in the left thigh is Felipe Contepomi. Yesterday, the opening of the Pumas (always with a bandage in the affected zone) along with participated in the aeróbica practice its companions. The only one that rested, to recover of an annoyance in the left ankle was wing Diego Albanese. In agreement with the stipulated thing, Marcelo Loffreda and Daniel Baetti they will confirm the alignment for the shock before the actually matutinal Springboks of today, in the stage Loftus Versfeld.

To see, to see… Hardly it finished to the party between South Africans and Argentineans, in clothes visitor appeared both veedores, because they wanted to analyze some attitudes of several players. Then, Loffreda also requested to remarcar the indisciplines of the premises and divided Baetti along with to review the tape of the controversial actions. After a long short while, the Argentine conductors returned and explained that the blows of Van der Westhuizen, Roux were seen clearly and Andrews, and that by those disloyalties will be informed.

One does not forget. Like commentator of the local television, champion of the world in 1995 attended the encounter the ex- opening of the Springboks Joel Stransky - -, and when it was wondered to him what it had seemed to him the performance of the referee Jamiel Tanday answered frankly: "I remember an Argentine judge worse than this one and was the one that directed the party of the Springboks with the selection of Buenos Aires, in 1993". I collate to that Stransky made reference went the one from the visit to our country of the South Africans, that finished with the triumph of the Buenosairean combined one by 28-27, in the field of Ferro. The tucumano Paul Bleckwedel directed to that confrontation, disputed the 30 of October of 1993, and in that they were the own Stransky, Van der Westhuizen, Loffreda, Nicholas Fernandez Miranda, Pedro Sporleder and Rolando Martin.

Worried. Rudolf Straeuli, coach of the Springboks, was in the stage evaluating to his players. One was not satisfied. When leaving, without much affection, he declared on the Pumas: "They are a good equipment. They played well ".