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The USA is looking to the future with Agustín Pichot. The World Rugby vice-chairman and former Argentine captain has been nominated to the USA Rugby Board of Directors. USA Rugby goes on record as identifying this as a collaboration between World Rugby and USA Rugby for sustainable growth to cement the USA as a major player on the global rugby stage.
Pichot is already a very busy man. He is President of Rugby Americas, a role which sees him already directly involved with USA matters. For USA Rugby he will assist USA Rugby’s governance and commercial restructure and boost the process and speed of development of the sport in the country.
At present the USA has 33 million rugby fans, a highly substantial number. The board is seeking to build on this to make rugby much bigger. It has the ease of recent creations including the Americas Rugby Championship, and Major League Rugby.
The USA is looking to the future with Pichot on the back of the Rugby 7’s World Cup. Over 100,000 were in attendance for the event in San Francisco, California and new broadcasting records approaching nine million viewers on NBC were recorded.
Pichot told USA Rugby:
“I am excited to be joining the USA Rugby Board as World Rugby’s representative. Collectively, we are focused on making USA Rugby the best it possibly can be, providing foundations for sustainable participation, fan and commercial growth within one of the world’s most competitive and rewarding sports and entertainment markets.”
“As the World Rugby representative on the Board, I look forward to sharing my knowledge and providing access to World Rugby’s technical, development and governance expertise to provide the best-possible opportunity to the USA and cement its place as a major player in global rugby.”
