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Alejandro Petra
Alejandro Petra is an Argentine rugby union coach and sports manager. He is professionally a physician. He was one of the coaches of Tucumán Rugby Club, with Luis Castillo and Manuel Galindo. Petra was one of the two head coaches of Argentina national rugby union team, Argentina, with Ricardo Paganini at the 1995 Rugby World Cup. They couldn't avoid Argentina elimination in the 1st round. After the competition, Ricardo Paganini was replaced by Emilio Perasso. Petra was the manager of Argentina during their 2002 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa and Europe, tour of South Africa and Europe in 2002. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an Rugby ball, oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped Goal (sports)#Structure, goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the '' science'' of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or '' craft'' of medicine. Both the role of the physician and the meani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucumán Rugby Club
Tucumán Rugby Club, is an Argentine sports club based in the city of Yerba Buena in Tucumán Province. Although other sports (such as tennis and field hockey) are practised in the institution, Tucumán is mostly known for its rugby union team. Tucumán rugby team is a member of the Unión de Rugby de Tucumán and one of the most successful teams in the province, having won the provincial title 20 times and reaching the final of the Nacional de Clubes on two occasions. History Tucumán Rugby Club was founded on September 5, 1942, by students and employees of the Bank of London branch in San Miguel de Tucumán. At first, most members were English expatriates and the club became known as "El Club de los Ingleses" (The Club of the English). For the first few years the club didn't own a ground and had to play rugby in public parks. By the end of the 1950s the club purchased a 3 hectares plot of land in Salas y Valdez and started building its own installations. Tucumán won the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina National Rugby Union Team
The Argentina national rugby union team ( Spanish: ''Selección de rugby de Argentina'') represents Argentina in men's international rugby union; it is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union ( es, Unión Argentina de Rugby). Nicknamed the Pumas (''Los Pumas'' in Spanish), they play in sky blue and white jerseys. They are ranked 6th in the world by World Rugby, making them the highest-ranked nation in the Americas. Argentina played its first international rugby match in 1910 against a touring British Isles team. Argentina has competed at every Rugby World Cup since the first tournament of 1987, and the country are considered the strongest team within the Americas, being undefeated against all but Canada, against whom they have suffered three losses. The Pumas' impressive results since the 1999 World Cup have seen rugby's popularity in Argentina grow significantly. Argentina has achieved several upset victories, and are capable of regularly defeating Six Nations sides. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Paganini
Ricardo Paganini is an Argentine former rugby union player and coach. He was born in Rosario and is an orthopaedic surgeon. Paganini played for Rosario Jockey Club. He would be the team coach for nine seasons, being Rosario Champion for six times. He formed with Alejandro Petra a partnership of the two head coaches of Argentina at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals. He was replaced by Emilio Perasso after the disappointing performance at the competition. He was assistant coach for the Argentina Sevens, from 1997 to 2001, and head coach from 2001 to 2005. Paganini currently holds the offices of vice-president of the Unión Argentina de Rugby and president of the CONSUR. IRB.com, accessed 25 October 2010 He is also a member of the |
1995 Rugby World Cup
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country. The World Cup was the first major sporting event to take place in South Africa following the end of apartheid. It was also the first World Cup in which South Africa was allowed to compete; the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB, now World Rugby) had only readmitted South Africa to international rugby in 1992, following negotiations to end apartheid. The World Cup was also the last major event of rugby union's amateur era; two months after the tournament, the IRFB opened the sport to professionalism. In the final, held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on 24 June, South Africa defeated New Zealand 15–12, with Joel Stransky scoring a drop goal in extra time to win the match. Following South Africa's victory, Nelson Mandela, the President of South Africa, wearing a Springboks rugby shirt and cap, pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Perasso
Emilio Perasso is an Argentine rugby union coach. He was the coach of San Isidro Club for more than 25 years. He was in charge of Argentina for three times, all of them in partnership with other coaches. The first was in 1974, with Carlos Villegas and Jorge Merelle, the second was from 1976 to 1977, with Carlos Villegas, and the third in 1995, with Alejandro Petra, after the disappointing elimination at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals Pool Stage. Perasso was considered for head coach of Argentina once again in 1999. He was also president of the Unión Argentina de Rugby The Argentine Rugby Union ( es, Unión Argentina de Rugby, abbreviated "UAR") is the governing body for rugby union in Argentina. It is a member of World Rugby, with a seat on that body's Executive Council, and a founding member of Sudamérica Rug ..., elected in 2004. External linksEmilio Perasso Election as UAR President (In Spanish) Argentine rugby union coaches Living people Argentina national rugby union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Argentina Rugby Union Tour Of South Africa And Europe
The 2002 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa and Europe were two series of matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team. The first tour (two matches) was held in June, the second (four matches) in November. In South Africa Squad * Manager: Alejandro Petra * Coach: Marcelo Loffreda * 2nd Coach: Daniel Baetti – Agustín Coscia *Diego Albanese ''(Gloucester R.F.C.)'' *Rimas Álvarez Kairelis ''(Perpignan)'' *Pablo Bouza ''( Duendes RC)'' *Gonzalo Camardón ''(Roma R.C.)'' *Felipe Contepomi ''(Bristol Shoguns)'' *Ignacio Corleto ''(Narbonne)'' *Martín Durand ''( Champagnat)'' *Carlos Ignacio Fernández Lobbe ''(Castres)'' *Juan Fernández Miranda ''(Hindú Club)'' *Nicolás Fernández Miranda ''(Hindú Club)'' * Julio García ''(Perpignan)'' *Diego Giannantonio ''(La Rochelle)'' *Roberto Grau ''(Liceo R.C.Mendoza)'' *Omar Hasan ''(Agen)'' *Mario Ledesma ''(Narbonne)'' *Gonzalo Longo ''(Narbonne)'' * Rolando Martín ''(San Isidro Club)'' *Federico Méndez ''(Men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Argentine Rugby Union Coaches
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Argentine''. Argentina is a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina National Rugby Union Team Coaches
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
