Pumas Seven: A mix of experience and youth will take part in a Vancoucer Championship looking to continue growing and possibly a podium finish. Credit: UAR Press
After finishing fifth at the Singapore Sevens, Los Pumas 7 continues the challenging track at the World Sevens Circuit, and now it’s the turn of Vancouver, Canada, the sixth stage of the 2022 World Sevens Championships and proves it. Organized for the seventh time since the establishment of the international circuit. The competition will be broadcast by Star +.
Next Saturday, at their show at Seven in Vancouver, Los Pumas 7 will face France (at the age of 13), the opponent they have beaten in their last five matches. In the second match of Group D, the team led by Santiago Gomez Corra will meet Scotland (at 4:11 pm), while at the end of the qualifying stage, the opponent will be Ireland (at 7:44 pm).
In addition to Los Pumas 7, Argentina will have another Vancouver Sevens representative, who will be part of the panel of judges, the La Plata-born referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero. The competition in Vancouver was included in the calendar in 2016 for the first time, a competition in which of the six times it has been held (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021), the Argentine team has not been able at all. To get to the podium (in 2021 he did not participate). The team’s best ranking was sixth in the 2017 competition, when they lost in the fifth-place match to New Zealand 17-14.
With five competitions held this season, South Africa leads the world standings with 98 points. Second place is shared by Argentina and Australia with 83 points, followed by the United States (67 points), Ireland (63 points), France (54 points) and Fiji (46 points).
Gomez Cora analyzed the group
For coach Santiago Gomez-Corra, the attention is focused on the wear of the players, and he described it this way: “The ability to adapt the body again to changing the time zone is a priority; this is the situation that greatly affects performance. Although we knew it, Except we’re having it now, because going to Singapore with 11 hours difference, and now coming to Vancouver with 16 hours to go the other way, the truth is it’s really hard.So we focused on trying to recover from the stress of the first weekend, because frankly, the wear and tear of These changes and travel is like playing another tournament.In terms of game specific issues, we want to correct the air game, because we weren’t exact on this point.
“Competitors? We had a level playing field, complex and with teams of a very good level. France is a competitor that always complicates us, no matter where they are in the standings; We’ve played with Scotland recently so we’ll have to change a few things because they’ve studied us, and Ireland has already shown that they’ve developed a lot and are playing great collectively. “I think he will be the biggest contender for the group,” said the coach of the selected team.
Gaston Revol and his experience
In the lead-up to his 86th appearance on the world circuit stages, Gaston Revol of Cordoba analyzed: “The most important thing in the days leading up to the new championship is to recover and adapt again to the change of time, which is very intense, to be able to be as quickly as possible. Possible in the case of a race. That’s what we take care of. And in terms of our competitors, I think we’ve got a very level playing field, with the teams we know quite a bit, moreover, they are playing very well. But the most important thing is to focus on our game, to be able to Imposing ourselves, in order to grow out of the game and win all three matches,” said the Argentina captain.
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