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THE ARGENTINA TEAM bus was parked right outside the main entrance of their Dublin hotel yesterday morning, getting a touch up ahead of tomorrow’s Aviva Stadium showdown with Ireland.
Contepomi only left these parts in 2022 following four years on the Leinster coaching ticket. Before that, he lined out 116 times for Leinster, winning a Heineken Cup and Celtic League during a highly influential playing career with the province. His ties to Ireland are strong, and stretch far beyond playing rugby.
Advertisement Contepomi was part of Leinster's Heineken Cup winning squad in 2009. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO His first season at the wheel has brought plenty of promise, includings wins against France, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Yet results only tell part of the story and yesterday Contepomi was more interested in keeping the focus on performance. Their September win over the Springboks was eye-catching, but Contepomi highlighted that had Manie Libbok not missed a late penalty, the narrative around Argentina that day would have a different spin.
“Ireland are not a bad team from one game to another and we are not a great team because we played one great game, we are only building our team, we have done some good things, we have a lot of things to improve and Ireland probably have things that they would like to get right on Friday.Contepomi on the training pitch this week. Tom Maher / INPHO Tom Maher / INPHO / INPHO
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