The Pumas have a plan (translated with google translator)
By Sergio Stuart
OLE detailed system of the UAR governing since 2009: allowed 12 of the holders vs. Australia were 100% made in Argentina.
Take chest in the Argentina Rugby Union. Prompting the victory to Australia! Not only the relief of the players, the confidence to address what's next and confirm that the path is correct. The accounts making the Union give 19, the amount of bad of the squad of 23 who entered the Malvinas from Mendoza and passed through the Pladar, the high performance Plan that was presented February 1, 2009, whose objective aims to educate and train the players so that they become men's selection. The Quartet that does not fit into the figure already playing in European clubs before the creation of the plan: Ayerza, Agulla, Hernandez and Bosch. Another number: were 12 holders.
At that time, AgustÃn Pichot, already leader, walked with a folder under his arm that included dozens of pages with charts, figures and budgets based on the system of drafting, grants, sponsorship and other item of American football, adapted to the norms and customs of our country. Include wages, the Union of Buenos Aires opposed repairs, while the Interior supported. There are now just a few pockets of resistance.
Works with 40 major players; Today the database includes 960 cards from male M-16 to 60 and older adult women. By 2015 they think to reach 1,500. Francisco Rubio, director of the Pladar, points out: "the system is working. There is no other country that working without strong competition like us, and only has the task of the academies, centres of rugby and high performance. The value is immense."
In 2009, it had five training centres (Cedares) in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Tucumán and Mendoza. Today function, in addition, six centres of rugby and three academies, where players move according to their age and development. Those 14 seats covers 86% of the country.
The path to be Puma begins in the provinces; each Union chooses a group of juveniles that begins to develop in the physical preparation and skills. In M-18 go to the Cedares and are selected.
Basic training when it is no competition time is Monday through Friday with rest on Wednesday. Gym, physique and skills make up the base, already with concepts that will be familiar in the different selected, whether M-18, M-20, seven, Jaguars, Pampas XV or Pumas, and feminine. In times of local tournaments (URBA, Litoral, Cordoba, etc.) are distributed loads with the clubs. They are approximately 100 people, including coaches, doctors, nutritionists, trainers, physiotherapists, psychologists and administrators involved. Players receive wages or scholarships according to their status.
Although Los Pumas aims the 2015 world, the biggest harvest of the Pladar is targeted to be collected in 2016. Within two years, with the addition of a national franchise to the Super Rugby, the players will be hired exclusively by the UAR; They must or choose to play in clubs abroad or Los Pumas.
Pladar power us at all (Javier Ortega Desio - Pladar Puma)
First of all, served to us the Pladar to match the difference with those selected who have strong local competition, which does not exist in our country. Be in this system improves the issue of the physical part and skills. I started at age 18, six years ago, the first litter that was prepared in two seasons for a world M-20, and it went very well.
The Pladar out the best of each, power us to all. It makes you integrate necessary concepts for high performance. On each team that you advance the line of play is more complex; If in the Jaguars you have three codes of the line, in Los Pumas are ten. But the language is the same from youth level.
On Saturday I went against Australia without having international club experience because the coastal tournament game with students from Paraná. And I didn't feel a difference with the Wallabies. That's thanks to all who work in the Pladar.