{"id":87713,"date":"2025-11-25T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-mallias-injury-in-england-vs-argentina\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:24:45","slug":"curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-mallias-injury-in-england-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/curry-accused-of-being-a-thug-by-contepomi-after-mallias-injury-in-england-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry, accused of being a &#8220;thug&#8221; by Contepomi after Mallia&#8217;s injury in England vs Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579639_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23555\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nArgentina coach Felipe Contepomi accused England player Tom Curry of being an &#8220;abuser&#8221; after Sunday&#8217;s tense match at Twickenham, where England won 27-23.\n\nContepomi expressed his fury after a play in the 75th minute that left Juan Cruz Mallia injured. The Argentine coach considered Curry&#8217;s tackle to be &#8220;reckless&#8221; and late, which resulted in a penalty for Curry.\n\nAfter the match, tempers flared, with Curry at the center of Argentine criticism. Contepomi reported that Curry insulted him in the tunnel and pushed him in the chest.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I was there and he approached wanting to greet one of our coaches, but we told him 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, in his opinion, Curry should have shown humility and respect after Mallia&#8217;s injury, but instead, he had a defiant attitude.\n\nEngland coach Steve Borthwick said he was unaware of the details of the incident between Contepomi and Curry, as he did not witness it.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579641_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23556\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nBorthwick emphasized Curry&#8217;s good character, describing him as a man with impeccable and very respectful character.\n\nMaro Itoje commented that emotions are usually running high after the matches, but highlighted the mutual respect between both teams.\n\nJuan Cruz Mallia&#8217;s injury could be an anterior cruciate ligament tear, but a clinical evaluation is needed to confirm it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi accused England player Tom Curry of being an &#8220;abuser&#8221; after Sunday&#8217;s tense match at Twickenham, where England won 27-23. Contepomi expressed his fury after a play in the 75th minute that left Juan Cruz Mallia injured. The Argentine coach considered Curry&#8217;s tackle to be &#8220;reckless&#8221; and late, which resulted in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[893,203,151,4531],"class_list":{"0":"post-87713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-tackle","11":"tag-tom-curry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713","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=87713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}