The Argentine Rugby Union (
UAR
) purchased
10 hectares
in the town of Cardales, province of Buenos Aires, where it will locate
the National Rugby Center (CNR)
where all the teams of that discipline will work.
It has five natural grass fields and one synthetic grass field planned, as well as a gym and a multi-function building.
The complex will have a main building of almost 11 thousand square meters spread over two floors, where the UAR sports offices, medical offices, special spaces for kinesiology, psychology and athlete nutrition will operate.
It will also have a highly complex gym, locker rooms and will have rooms for training courses, an auditorium, a dining room, rooms to accommodate about 60 athletes, rest and recreation rooms, video rooms and a studio for multimedia productions.
In addition, it will have a semi-covered area for a 200 m2 barbecue area and a storage room three times larger.
“Argentine rugby has been searching for a long time and deserved to have its own, cutting-edge place to be able to concentrate all its activities.
We all want our teams to have the maximum resources available to project their development, and we also want this sport to grow,” highlighted the president of the UAR, Gabriel Travaglini.
The property is at kilometer 4 of Avenida Libertador San Martín (Route 4), in Los Cardales, at kilometer 61 of National Route 9. The planned works will be financed with the resources granted by World Rugby
and
will open a bidding process to select the construction company to complete the work in two and a half years.
The complex will have a building of more than 10,000 square meters spread over two floors.
Once inaugurated, the Ingeniero Maschwitz property where
Casa Pumas
operates will no longer be rented and all activity will move to Cardales.
“The property will be available to all sectors of the Union, from what has to do with the base of this game (from the 574 clubs), the thousands of volunteers who collaborate in different areas, the referees, the physical trainers and the Los Pumas squad,” the entity indicated in a press release.
The CNR will host all the teams and their respective technical bodies that are part of the UAR: in addition to Los Pumas, Las Yaguaretés, Los Pumas 7's, Los Pumitas, Pampas, the Argentina XV and the Academies.
It will be
the property that the UAR owns in Cardales...