Gonzalo Bertranou: 'It’s the only team that we haven’t beaten in Europe at home, so we know what’s coming.' Photograph: Rodrigo Valle/Getty Images’s wandering minstrels or rugby-playing nomads drawn from various clubs around the world, their experienced scrumhalf Gonzalo Bertranou is a relative home bird.
“Now my head is 100 per cent in Argentina, playing for my country and being the best ‘9′ that I can be for the team, just making the team play good. So, my head is here, I’m happy, my family is in Argentina and I have a club. My hometown club. They must put that club, Los Todos Rugby Club, beside my name.”“My dad also played for the Pumas so I started really, really young playing with him and I’m very, very happy and very, very proud of representing my country.
“The good thing is that we are all Argentinians, we all know each other a lot, we have been playing together for a long time. But representing Argentina is different to any club and we know that we are going to face a different beast with Ireland because we never win against Ireland in Dublin. Gonzalo Bertranou gets his pass away during the 50-18 victory over Italy at Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy. Photograph: Gaspafotos/MB Media/Getty Images