Americas Rugby News Rugby news from across the Americas!
- Major League Rugby (MLR) and the USA Rugby Players Association (USRPA) signed an agreement ratifying the first collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in American rugby history.
- Franco Molina and Leonel Oviedo make their Super Rugby debuts for Western Force.
- Tomás Lavanini is rumored to be joining Sale Sharks after Super Rugby 2026 with Highlanders.
- Lavanini’s contemporary team, the Highlanders, have lost Dutch All Black Fabian Holland for 2026.
- Christiaan Esterhuizen has named Canada’s 12-man roster for SVNS 2 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Tickets are on sale for the New York SVNS next month.
- Chilean prop Iñaki Gurruchaga is no longer a medical joker at Vannes; he will return to play for Selknam.
- Juan Manuel Leguizamón wants Los Pampas to play with velocity.
- New Dogos Head Coach Diego Ghiglione says the objective of Los Dogos is to produce Pumas.
- Similarly, Peñarol Head Coach Ugo Dugonjic says the focus is Australia 2027 and providing a production line of u20 players for World Rugby u20 Championship.
- Ex Peñarol winger Manuel Cardoso Pinto scored for Portugal in Os Lobos’ road win over Belgium.
- Elsewhere in the Rugby Europe Championship, Germany upset Romania. Questions remain unanswered by World Rugby as to why Asia merited a direct World Cup spot considering Brazil defeated Hong Kong in Hong Kong in 2024.
- The Argentine born, raised and homegrown Juan Ignacio Brex now has 50 caps for Italy.
- England’s Tom Curry received a yellow card for foul play vs Wales this past Sunday on 75 minutes. The same player seriously injured Juan Cruz Mallía with foul play action in his prior test match for England.
- The Pacific Four Series will see Sacramento, Kansas City and Chicago hosting matches involving USA Women’s Eagles, Australia, Canada and New Zealand in April.
- In France, Midi Olympique rank the Top 14 stadiums.
- Victor Matfield believes France will be South Africa’s biggest obstacle at RWC 2027.
- Hernando De Cillia counts the costs of attending Argentina’s matches at the World Cup in Australia.
- Oliver Brown notes that Ireland and Scotland’s player poaching via three-years residency was damaging.
- Jonathan Brennan looks back at 30 years of the Waratahs as a professional rugby team in Australia.
- Western Australians bitterness at the World Cup opening match being Australia vs Hong Kong rather than New Zealand will be happier now that Perth has secured a big match ahead of the World Cup.
