{"id":87140,"date":"2025-11-25T05:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-injury-to-mallia-in-england-vs-argentina\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:56:54","slug":"curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-injury-to-mallia-in-england-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-injury-to-mallia-in-england-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry, accused of being a &#8220;thug&#8221; by Contepomi after injury to Mallia in England vs Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579639_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7468\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nArgentina coach Felipe Contepomi has called England player Tom Curry a &#8220;thug&#8221; after the tense match at Twickenham, where Argentina fell 27-23.\n\nContepomi expressed his frustration after a play in the 75th minute that resulted in Juan Cruz Mallia&#8217;s injury, following a tackle by Curry.\n\nThe Argentinian coach considered Curry&#8217;s action as &#8220;reckless&#8221; and late, which resulted in a penalty.\n\nThe tension moved to the tunnel after the match, where Contepomi alleged that Curry insulted and pushed him.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He was there and he approached wanting to greet one of our coaches, but we said no because we were upset. It was reckless and he broke our player&#8217;s knee.<\/p><cite>Felipe Contepomi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nContepomi added that he expected an apology from Curry, but instead, he received insults and a shove.\n\nEngland coach Steve Borthwick said he did not witness the incident, but defended Curry&#8217;s integrity.\n\nMaro Itoje, for his part, downplayed the situation, attributing it to the emotions of the moment.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579641_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7469\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nContepomi mentioned that Mallia&#8217;s injury could be an anterior cruciate ligament tear, although more tests are needed.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi has called England player Tom Curry a &#8220;thug&#8221; after the tense match at Twickenham, where Argentina fell 27-23. Contepomi expressed his frustration after a play in the 75th minute that resulted in Juan Cruz Mallia&#8217;s injury, following a tackle by Curry. The Argentinian coach considered Curry&#8217;s action as &#8220;reckless&#8221; and late, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[893,10603,151,4531],"class_list":{"0":"post-87140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-contepomi","10":"tag-tackle","11":"tag-tom-curry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}