London had been the destination for Isgro’s first ever overseas trip, an appearance at the glitzy, if short-lived, Rugby X event at the O2 Arena in 2019.<\/p>\n
Getting used to day-to-day life in his new hometown of Guildford was hard though. But it would have been even harder without his team-mates – and one in particular.<\/p>\n
“Marcus [Smith] is a very good friend,” adds Mendoza-born Isgro.<\/p>\n
“He was really good when I arrived in England. He gave up a lot of time for me, as well as patience and understanding.<\/p>\n
“My English was not very good – I didn’t speak it. He is a really good friend, he drinks ‘mate’ with me every day.”<\/p>\n
As well as the traditional South American herbal drink – a favourite of Argentina footballing legend Lionel Messi – England fly-half Smith would share lifts into training with Isgro.<\/p>\n
They linked well together on the pitch too. A quarter of an hour into Isgro’s debut against Bath, Smith cut blind, chipped across field and the winger claimed the ball over the head of his opposite number for a try.<\/p>\n
Isgro scored another before half-time and has been something of a cult hero at the Stoop ever since, extending his contract in January.<\/p>\n
“It was hard because the language is different but I grew up a lot, both with my personality and in the game,” he says.<\/p>\n
“It was a really good challenge and now I feel really good. I was scared before, and now I am happy that I feel comfortable here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London had been the destination for Isgro’s first ever overseas trip, an appearance at the glitzy, if short-lived,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-584419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115586984283437687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}