The 1980 Sudamérica XV rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of seven matches played by the

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(also named the ''Jaguars'')

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team in

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in April and May 1980.''Memorias 1980''
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on ''El Gráfico'', 15 Jan 2009Pumas disfrazados de carneros: la infamia de Sudamérica XV y su apoyo al Apartheid
by Juan Provéndola on La Izquierda Diario, 3 Apr 2018 The South American team won five of the matches but lost both that were against the South Africa national team.Rothmans, p48 The touring party was composed almost entirely of players from the

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and included all but one of the players who had played for Argentina in a drawn series with Australia in 1979.Rothmans, p47 The touring party numbered twenty-six players, of whom one came from

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, one from

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, one from

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and one from

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. The other twenty-two players came from Argentina, including the captain,

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. Porta was asked to return to South Africa later that year to play for the

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against the touring 1980 British Lions. The players were individually invited to play in this tour and against South Africa in two matches played later during the Springboks tour of South America. The "South America Jaguars" was a "ghost" Argentine national team, not officially recognised by

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by ANDRÉS REGGIANI on El Cohete a la Luna, 26 Mar 2023 to elude the Argentine government prohibition that since the early 1970s had forbid any official relationship between any Argentine sport federation and South African and

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n ones due to the

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politics of the two African countries. This started in 1971 when the Argentine government forbid the national team from playing a match in Rhodesia during the tour in South Africa.''Memorias 1971''
on UAR Later in 1973, after a controversial period, the government forbid any sport relationship with South Africa.

Touring party

*Manager: M. Dolan *Assistant Managers: L. Gradin, A. Otano *Captain:

Backs

(Argentina unless stated) *Daniel Baetti *Ricardo Muniz *Marcelo Campo * Roberto Canessa (Uruguay) *Adolfo Cappelletti *

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*Rafael Madero *P. Mirando-Cardosa (Brazil) *F. Moscarda (Paraguay) *

*Juan Pablo Piccardo *R. Landajo *Alfredo Soares-Gache

Forwards

(Argentina unless stated) *Gabriel Travaglini *A. Voltan *Ernesto Ure *H. Silva * Enrique Rodríguez *Tomás Petersen *Javier Pérez-Cobo *Hugo Nicola *Fernando Morel *

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(Chile) *Alejandro Iachetti *Marcos Iachetti *Alejandro Cubelli

Matches

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