BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s Pumas, fresh from their best result against South Africa, want to become a team that no longer surprise people with their achievements.Having lost 27-6 to South Africa on their debut in Cape Town on August 18, the Pumas came within a whisker of upsetting the Springboks in a 16-16 draw in Mendoza in the Rugby Championship last Saturday.“I hope that getting into an annual tournament is going to allow us to not surprise the guys any more,” captain Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe told Reuters.After a practice in Buenos Aires on Thursday, the Pumas were flying to New Zealand to face the All Blacks in Wellington on September 8, then Australia in Gold Coast a week later.“Our goal is to try and match them. It’s going to demand a lot of hard, hard work but we believe we have the head and the will to get to that level,” the number eight said.“So we hope that in a few years we can say that the Pumas are not surprising, that they have established themselves at that level.”
