Americas Rugby News Rugby news from across the Americas!
- World Rugby determine that New Zealand’s Tanya Kalounivale was wrongly sent-off against the USA.
- Old Glory DC flanker Cory Daniel was named the Major League Rugby Player of the Week.
- Jerónimo de la Fuente is back for Perpignan. The former Pumas center started opposite contemporary Pumas center, Justo Piccardo against Montpellier in the Top 14. Piccardo was a try-scorer for Montpellier who won the derby Top 14 contest.
- Marcos Kremer scored for Clermont who defeated Lyon. The result sees Clermont make inside the play-off’s zone.
- Eagles prop David Ainu’u provided an assist try for Pumas Center Santiago Chocobares as Toulouse won their derby against Castres.
- Pumas captain Julián Montoya scored for Pau who defeated Bayonne on the road. Montoya started opposite fellow Argentine test hooker, Facundo Bosch.
- In the English Premiership, Santiago Carreras scored two tries for Bath who humbled the Harlequins.
- Pierre Baylet talks to former Pumas center Bautista Ezcurra as Mont de Marsan try to salvage something in the final rounds of the Pro D2 season.
- Pumas Rodrigo Isgró, Boris Wenger, Pedro Delgado and Santiago Grondona are sidelined with minor injuries. Others are out of the July Internationals.
- Colomiers medical-joker, Matias Osadczuk will not remain at the Pro D2 club after this season.
- Canadian Jamin Hodgkins is getting good game time in Australia.
- Fellow Canadian Kaden Duguid is also now playing in Australia.
- Yacare are in danger of exiting Super Rugby Americas; however, new franchises are interested.
- The Auckland-based Moana Pasifika will fold at the end of the Super Rugby season. World Rugby money went into the team while the same body cut funding elsewhere, including to South America.
- Auckland Rugby will exit Eden Park, the country’s biggest stadium.
- The Western Force, with Franco Molina, defeated the Crusaders in Perth, Western Australia.
- Saudi Arabia / The Arabian Gulf has abandoned its bid to host Rugby World Cup 2035. Spain, Italy, Japan and Argentina are those to have presented bidding intentions.
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