Carreras won’t let international acclaim go to his head
NEWCASTLE Falcons’ Mateo Carreras can’t wait to get stuck in during tomorrow’s visit of Exeter Chiefs after his international exploits with Argentina.
The winger set social media alight in his last appearance for the Falcons when his 80-metre solo try at Northampton accrued more than a million views and landed him a second successive Famous Grouse Try of the Month award.
He followed that up by starting in Argentina’s historic one-point victory over England at Twickenham and returns now for club duty after also playing for Los Pumas against Wales. Carreras, who is joined at Kingston Park by countrymen Matias Orlando and Matias Moroni, as well as USA lock Greg Peterson, said: “I loved my time away with Argentina, it’s always a huge honour to play for your country but it’s also great to be back with the Falcons. I don’t find it difficult at all to go from the Argentina squad to being back with Newcastle – I think it’s exciting.
“If I’m involved in the game on Friday I want to give back to the team and show the learning and improvement from when I was with Argentina. Hopefully that will help us to bring back the win.”
Crossing for five tries in five games in Newcastle colours this season, Carreras’ last club outing saw his name up in lights thanks to THAT try at Northampton. Not that the 23-year-old is letting the acclaim go to his head.
“I don’t like to pay too much attention to social media,” added the former Argentina 7s and under-20 international.
“I like to put the focus inside me to improve my rugby rather than reading what people are saying about me but it’s nice when things go well and you help the team.”