1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa

The 1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of seven matches played by the South American Jaguars rugby union team in South Africa in April and May 1980.[1] The South American team won five of the matches but lost both that were against the South Africa national rugby union team.[2]

1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa
Summary
P W D L
Total
07 05 00 02
Test match
02 00 00 02
Opponent
P W D L
 South Africa
2 0 0 2

The touring party was composed almost entirely of players from the Argentina national rugby union team and included all but one of the players who had played for Argentina in a drawn series with Australia in 1979.[3] The touring party numbered twenty-six players, of whom one came from Brazil, one from Chile, one from Uruguay and one from Paraguay. The other twenty-two players came from Argentina, including the captain, Hugo Porta.[2] Porta was asked to return to South Africa later that year to play for the South African Barbarians against the touring 1980 British Lions.[2]

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.[4]

The "South America Jaguars" was a "ghost" Argentine national team, not officially recognised by Union Argentina de Rugby, 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 Rhodesian ones due to the apartheid 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.[5] 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: Hugo Porta

Backs

(Argentina unless stated)

  • Daniel Baetti
  • Ricardo Muniz
  • Marcelo Campo
  • Roberto Canessa (Uruguay)
  • Adolfo Cappelletti
  • Marcelo Loffreda
  • Rafael Madero
  • P. Mirando-Cardosa (Brazil)
  • F. Moscarda (Paraguay)
  • Hugo Porta
  • 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
  • Alastair MacGregor Martin (Chile)
  • Alejandro Iachetti
  • Marcos Iachetti
  • Alejandro Cubelli

Matches
12 April 1980
Boland 12–42 South American Jaguars
16 April 1980
Northern Free State 25–42 South American Jaguars
19 April 1980
SA Gazelles 19–30 South American Jaguars
22 April 1980
SE Transvaal 21–30 South American Jaguars
26 April 1980
South Africa 24–9 South American Jaguars
Try: TD du Plessis
Germishuys, Mordt
Con: Botha 3
Pen: Botha
Drop: Botha
 Try: Travaglini
Con: Loffreda
Pen: Loffreda
Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Attendance: 34,000
Referee: Ken Rowlands (Wales)
29 April 1980
Western Province 13–15 South American Jaguars
3 May 1980
South Africa  18–9 South American Jaguars
Try: M du Plessis
Con: Botha
Pen: Botha
Drop: Botha 3
 Pen: Piccardo 3
Kings Park, Durban
Attendance: 34,000
Referee: Ken Rowlands (Wales)

Bibliography
  • Vivian Jenkins, ed. (1981). Rothmans Rugby Yearboook 1981–82. Rothmans Publications Ltd. pp. 47–51. ISBN 090757405X.

References
  1. Union Argentina dr Rugby Memorias 1980
  2. Rothmans, p48
  3. Rothmans, p47
  4. Union Argentina dr Rugby Memorias 1980 Archived 1 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine pag.3
  5. Union Argentina dr Rugby Memorias 1971 Archived 1 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine pag.9
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