Argentina RWC 2015 squad:
Forwards: Matias Alemanno, Marcos Ayerza, Agustin Creevy, Matias Diaz, Juan Fernandez Lobbe, Ramiro Herrera, Facundo Isa, Tomas Lavanini, Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Pablo Matera, Julian Montoya, Lucas Noguera Paz, Javier Ortega, Guido Petti, Leonardo Senatore, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro.
Backs: Horacio Agulla, Marcelo Bosch, Santiago Cordero, Tomas Cubelli, Jeronimo De La Fuente, Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias, Juan Martin Hernandez, Juan Imhoff, Martin Landajo, Matias Moroni, Nicolas Sanchez, Juan Pablo Socino, Joaquin Tuculet.
Argentina have put their faith in largely domestic-based talent as they look to translate recent improvements in the Rugby Championship onto the Rugby World Cup stage.
Only seven overseas internationals – five from the English Premiership and two from the French Top 14 – have made it into head coach Daniel Hourcade’s final 31-man squad with the rest of the squad all plying their trade at home or currently unattached.
Racing Metro’s Juan Imhoff, Argentina’s hat-trick hero in Los Pumas’ shock Rugby Championship win over South Africa a fortnight ago, is joined in the squad by Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (pictured) of Toulon, while the English quintet includes recently capped Newcastle centre Juan Pablo Socino as well as Horacio Agulla (Bath), Marcelo Bosch (Saracens) Marcos Ayerza (Leicester) and Mariano Galarza (Gloucester)….. full story on >>>> http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/85200
