Ambitious Pichot aims to gain confidence of Six Nations

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From ALEJO MIRANDA in Buenos Aires

SHOULD Agustín Pichot become chairman of World Rugby he intends to lead a revolution against world rugby as we know it.
Challenging the powers of Bill Beaumont, Bernard Laporte and the Home Nations seems like a long shot, but he has history of landing seismic blows, such as leading Argentina to third place at RWC2007 and being a driving force in them joining Super Rugby and Rugby Championship.
Pichot said: “Since I became vice-chairman we changed the residency rule, we granted more votes for Argentina, Fiji, Uruguay and Japan in the Counc...

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