Juan Pablo Estevez
08/08/2021 4:12 PM
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 08/08/2021 4:12 PM
Santiago Mare
, a man emerged from Regatas Bella Vista, is going through the best moment of his rugby career: he has just won the bronze medal with
the Argentina Sevens Team
at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and was also selected by Mario Ledesma, Los Pumas coach, to play the Rugby Championship, which is
the best 15-player tournament
at national level in the world.
Mare, 24,
made his debut in the First Bella Vista Regattas
when he was 19 and was called up for the first time to the Sevens rugby team in 2017: he played in the Sevens in Paris, which is part of the World Tour of the specialty. and from that moment he had a lot of filming, and was even part of the national team that won the
gold medal at the Pan American Games in Lima
2019.
He always stood out as a very versatile back and in the recent Olympic Games he was very dynamic and successful in his deliveries to the sticks, in fact he finished as the
second scorer
with 33 points (first was the New Zealander Knewstubb, with 37 points ).
Santiago Mare, in action against South Africa in Tokyo 2020. Photo: Reuters
The corollary of that great performance was the bronze medal obtained by Mare and by Los Pumas 7's: at the ceremony
the Regatas player was seen very excited
, sharing the podium with Gastón Revol, an undisputed benchmark of the national team, and then he uttered some very moving words with the medal hanging on the man.
"
The family and the Argentines were the ones who banked us in everything
, they made us leave our lives to arrive in Tokyo and have given this joy to the people, which was very important to us," said Toto at the Olympic stadium in Tokyo.
The eyes of national rugby were on the tournament played by Los Pumas 7's: the coaches of all the Argentine national teams watched the event and one of them, Mario Ledesma, was following in the footsteps of Mare, Lucio Cinti and Marcos Moneta, who were summoned to play the Rugby Championship.
Santiago Mare (right) in his days as a Bella Vista Regatas player.
Photo: Instagram
In fact, Mare's aim did not go unnoticed by Ledesma, who stressed: "
We want to install Mare in the opening position of 15-player rugby
, it is one of the conversations we had with Santi Gómez Cora -Sevens coach-. He is one of the interesting players that we can have in that position, "said the Los Pumas head coach.
Chosen by Ledesma
Mare is one of the four starts that Ledesma chose to face this competition, the others are Nicolás Sánchez, who is the historic scorer for Los Pumas.
Domingo Miotti
,
also from Tucumán
, who is on the rise in his career and has just played well in Super Rugby for the Western Force, and
Joaquín Díaz Bonilla
, who emerged from Hindú and made his last stop in England's Leicester and currently without a team,
The back that emerged from Regatas Bella Vista is the youngest of all these players and
had never been summoned to Los Pumas before
, so if he saw action in any of the Rugby Championship matches, he would be making his absolute debut in the Senior National Team.
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Santiago does have a past in
Argentina XV
, which is currently considered the second national team after Los Pumas, whose objective is to create new figures so that they can then rise to the first scene of Argentine rugby.
Mare's last participation in said National Team in October 2020 and it was with a smile, because the national team became champion of the
South American Four Nations
that took place in Montevideo.
In this contest, Argentina XV defeated Chile tightly, thrashed Brazil and defeated Uruguay on the last date and was the first that a national team played after the pandemic began, taking into account Los Pumas began to play the Three Nations one week after the end of this contest.
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