{"id":8669,"date":"2012-03-08T02:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-world-cup-winner-henry-to-advise-argentinas-pumas\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T02:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:59:06","slug":"rugby-world-cup-winner-henry-to-advise-argentinas-pumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-world-cup-winner-henry-to-advise-argentinas-pumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-World Cup winner Henry to advise Argentina’s Pumas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BUENOS AIRES, March 7<\/span> (Reuters) – New Zealand’s World
\nCup-winning coach Graham Henry will help fine tune the Pumas for
\ntheir Rugby Championship debut season, the Argentine Rugby Union
\n(UAR) said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The UAR said it had signed Henry, whose All Blacks won New
\nZealand’s second World Cup last year, as a consultant with a
\nparticular view to improve coaching at Argentina’s high
\nperformance centres.<\/p>\n

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“We must copy the good things (in world rugby). The UAR must
\ncontinue to train its coaches so they get better and better to
\nface our commitments,” UAR president Luis Castillo told a news
\nconference.<\/p>\n

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Argentina face New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in
\nthe new four-nation Rugby Championship, their first ever top
\nlevel annual competition, between Aug. 18 xx and Oct. 6.<\/p>\n

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“(Henry’s) task will be to give his technical advice. He
\nlikes Argentina, the feeling of Argentine players (for the game)
\nand he’ll help players take a leap in quality,” said Manuel
\nGalindo, head of the UAR’s high performance rugby sub-committee.<\/p>\n

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“He’s going to work with the trainers, doing coaching.”<\/p>\n

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Galindo said Argentina sought three key changes to the way
\nthe Pumas were run, first signing up the entire coaching staff
\nfull time.<\/p>\n

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Argentina, whose professional players have so far only played
\nabroad mainly in Europe, have also given contracts to a number
\nof home-based players.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The third big step we had to take was to get a person who
\ncould shorten the distance (with our rivals) in the tournament
\nwe are going to take part in,” Galindo said.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“We chose a coach who best knows them,” he said, referring
\nto the three major southern hemisphere rugby nations.<\/p>\n

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“We set ourselves the dream of getting the best or one of
\nthe best coaches in the world. We’ve been talking for three
\nmonths and (the deal) was signed on Sunday night.” \t<\/p>\n

(Reporting By Rex Gowar, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n

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