Argentina

Played in glorious winter sunshine at the Estadio Brigadier López in Santa Fe, Los Pumas did enough to open their year with a 30-24 win over Italy. A sloppy start from the opening kick saw Argentina turn over the ball in their own 22. What followed was 15 phases of Italian raids before …

Following on from defeating France during the week Los Pumitas made it two wins from two matches in the 2016 World Rugby Junior World Championship this afternoon, defeating South Africa 19-13 in Manchester, England. The Baby Boks started well, with fly half Curwin Bosch opening the scoring in the 5th …

It’s time for predictions! The ARN Forecast returns and we’re kicking it up a notch with an impressive roster of rugby writers from across the Americas! This time we’ll be testing our punditry for the June internationals – those ones involving the Americas teams anyway – over the next three …

Manuel Carizza and Juan Imhoff have been named to start Saturday’s Top 14 barrage play-off in Paris. Both players are from Argentina’s third largest city, Rosario. Racing 92 will play host to Toulouse in suburban Paris while on Sunday Montpellier will be at home against Castres. The two winning clubs …

Nicolás Fernández Lobbe has made four changes to his lineup for Saturday’s round two fixture of the World Rugby Junior World Championship. Argentina will take-on South Africa in one of six world under 20 fixtures this weekend. Having beaten France in the opening round the South Americans are looking to …

Conor O’Shea’s preparation for his first match in charge of Italy has hit a bump with Tommaso Boni forced out with a half strain. His place in the starting lineup against Argentina has been taken by Tommaso Castello. Castello is to make the step up next season from Calvisano in …

Uruguay pushed Emerging Italy to the limit this afternoon, losing 26-24 in the World Rugby Nations Cup in Bucharest, Romania. The fixture was the second of three opening round match-ups. The others being the Argentina XV vs Spain and the official test match of Romania vs Namibia. Uruguay’s two remaining …

The Argentina XV got their World Rugby Nations Cup campaign off to an ideal start, seeing off Spain 44-8 in Bucharest, Romania. The match was vastly different either side of the interval. An impressive effort from the Spanish scrum caused a variety of headaches for the Argentina XV and kept the …

Argentina Head Coach Daniel Hourcade has confirmed the lineup for Los Pumas’ first test match of 2016. Argentina will play host to Italy on Saturday at the Estadio Brigadier López in Santa Fé. El Huevo‘s selection is highly consistent with that used in 2015. The missing trio of Ramiro Herrera, Tomás …

The World Rugby Nations Cup returns on Thursday, hosted for the 10th consecutive time in Bucharest, Romania. This year’s tournament has been expanded from four to six teams for the first time since 2012. With the Tbilisi Cup put on hold due to Georgia’s Pacific Island tour, Emerging Italy and …