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Next Monday, March 11, Los Pumas will meet again after the fourth place obtained in the 2023 World Cup in France and days before the participation of the Argentine players in the London Camp (which will last until March 13), the head coach Felipe Contepomi added Bradley Mooar to the technical staff of the national team. The New Zealander recently served as an attack consultant for the Scottish national team and during his career he worked, for example, with the Crusaders and the All Blacks. In this way, Mooar will join Andrés Bordoy and Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, who had already renewed their relationship with the Argentine team.

“We are very happy to have Brad (Mooar); We have no doubt that he will add a lot to the team, based on his experience and knowledge of the game. During his career he trained teams from the Southern and Northern hemispheres, that will be of great use to everyone, and we are waiting for the moment to start working,” Contepomi said about the coach’s arrival.

Regarding his new role as assistant coach of Los Pumas, Mooar commented: “My family and I are delighted and grateful to join Felipe and Los Pumas. We love the culture and rugby of the Argentine people. It was very exciting when Felipe contacted us about this opportunity, and our conversations since then have been deep and fruitful regarding rugby and life. Everything fits! We are excited to get started. I thank Felipe and the UAR for their support and work to make this happen. Come on!”

Brad Mooar was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on August 28, 1974 (age 49), and in the ’90s he competed for the opening position in Canterbury with the renowned Andrew Merthens, who debuted in the All Blacks in 1995. Faced with this situation, Mooar chose to play for three seasons in Mid-Canterbury, a provincial team with which he won the third division title in 1998 and achieved promotion to the second category.

His first coaching experience was with the Christchurch Colts in 2007; Later (2011) he collaborated with Craig Philpott at the Canterbury Colts. In 2012 he left his job as a lawyer and moved to South Africa to take charge of Eastern Province Kings, a team with which he won the first division title of the Currie Cup, and later became assistant coach of Southern Kings (2013). . He returned to his homeland to fulfill the role of head coach and director of rugby at Southland (2014-2015). In 2015 he called Todd Blackadder to replace Aaron Mauger (he accepted a proposal from Leicester Tigers) as Crusaders backs coach. With the arrival of Scott Robertson, Brad Mooar stayed in his position and thus participated in the three-time championship achieved by Crusaders in Super Rugby (2017, 2018 and 2019).

Then he completed his first great adventure in Europe, where he was head coach of the Scarlets Welsh team (2019), and the following year (2020) he returned to his country when he was chosen by Ian Foster to work as backs and attack coach of the All Blacks (2020-2022). And his most recent collaboration was throughout 2023, summoned by Gregor Townsend, as an attack coach in the Scotland team.