{"id":30926,"date":"2025-06-11T18:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ben-curry-argentina-tour-can-be-the-making-of-young-england\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:17:34","slug":"ben-curry-argentina-tour-can-be-the-making-of-young-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ben-curry-argentina-tour-can-be-the-making-of-young-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Curry: Argentina tour can be the making of young England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As in 2017, this year&#8217;s away series against the Pumas coincides with a British and Irish Lions tour, opening up opportunities for younger players to stake their claim to senior England spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester prop Afolabi Fasogbon, part of the England under-20 side who won their age-grade world title last summer, was included in a four-day training camp this week before squad selection on Monday, 23 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina are a place above England in the world rankings and have beaten France, New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly798784kvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">South Africa<\/a> and Australia on their home turf over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will take on the Pumas in the 35,000-capacity Estadio Uno in Buenos Aires \u2013 the home of top-flight football side Estudiantes &#8211; on 5 July before travelling to San Juan and an altitude of about 1,500m above sea level for the second and final match of the series seven days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cwywvjdw774o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in 2017, this year&#8217;s away series against the Pumas coincides with a British and Irish Lions tour, opening up opportunities for younger players to stake their claim to senior England spots. Gloucester prop Afolabi Fasogbon, part of the England under-20 side who won their age-grade world title last summer, was included in a four-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30928,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30926\/revisions\/30928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}