With 44 years of combined international experience and 203 caps and 10 Rugby World Cup tournaments between them, Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Omar Hasan’s contribution to Argentinean rugby has been immense.

Surprisingly the tough as teak triumvirate only started eight tests together, but Rugby World Cup fans have had no reservations about voting in Roncero. Ledesma and Hasan, en bloc, to their front row Dream Team.

The RWC fan’s all-time Dream Team, in association with Société Générale, will comprise the world’s best players, from 1-15, as voted for by supporters around the world via @rugbyworldcup, and the tournament’s official Facebook page.

From today fans will be able to vote for their favourite second-rows, with Martin Johnson, Ian Jones, Bakkies Botha and Brad Thorn all in the frame, but, for now, it is the front row forwards - feted by the scrum-loving Argentineans in much the same way as backs take the acclaim in other countries - that take centre stage.

Roncero, who won 55 caps, one as captain, from 1998-2012, appeared in three Rugby World Cups and beat off competition from the likes of RWC winners Tony Woodcock, the try-scorer in the 2011 final against France, England legend Jason Leonard and double-champion Springbok Os Du Randt.

“It is a great thing that they chose a front-row from Argentina despite us not winning a Rugby World Cup. It revalidates the way we live and feel the scrum in our country. When you stop playing you think ‘that’s it’, out of the limelight. That people want to vote for you is nice,” said Roncero.

With a commanding 41 per cent of the vote Ledesma was voted in as the best hooker in the history of the Rugby World Cup. A veteran of four World Cups, the Buenos Aires-born player won 84 caps and scored three tries for his country over a stellar 15-year career. Former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick and two other World Cup winners in Phil Kearns (Australia) and John Smit (South Africa) were the men to miss out.

“I was already delighted to be nominated amongst such great players. Our scrum was always our flag, even when it wasn’t at its strongest, opponents would be worried about the Puma scrum,” commented Ledesma.

Pushing Adam Jones into second place in the tight-head position is Argentina’s 64-cap international prop turned opera singer Omar Hasan, who makes up the formidable threesome with nearly half of the votes cast.

For Hasan the Pumas’ clean sweep is an honour for all the greats to have played prop or hooker for the Pumas to share, not just the chosen three.

“There is a passage of rite in the Argentine scrum; we are taught by our elders and we carry that through at every level. This is a tribute to so many great Argentine front-rowers. I haven’t played since 2007 so that they still remember is great,” he said.