Argentina

After the excitement of the Americas Rugby Championship this week’s selection seems downright boring. Los Jaguares were on a bye, as was the whole of the Guinness Pro 12, and most of the top Americas exports were either not playing well or not at all. In some cases we’ve simply …

Having missed the opening two Super Rugby matches Juan Martín Hernández will start for Los Jaguares vs Chiefs, writes Sergio Stuart for Ole. The veteran utility back is to be a welcome return for the Argentine Super Rugby franchise who are to be without three starting forwards to injury. Hernández …

Mauricio Reggiardo, the current Head Coach of Pro d2 side Albi will take over the reigns of current Top 14 club Agen next season. Having worked miracles last season to save Castres from what was, at point point, probable relegation former Puma Reggiardo will be responsible for Agen playing in France’s …

The pool draw for the 2016 Hong Kong 7s has been released, with 16 teams taking part in the main HSBC Sevens Series competition and another 12 set to compete for core status on the 2016-17 season. All but one team that took part in the wildly successful Vancouver tournament …

Starting Rugby World Cup 2015 forwards Ramiro Herrera and Pablo Matera will not face the Chiefs, it was confirmed today by the Argentine rugby press. Tighthead prop, Herrera is yet to fully recover from a knock to his angle picked up in the round two fixture against the Sharks in …

World Rugby has confirmed the nominations for the positions of Chairman and Vice-Chairman, which will be determined at the annual meeting of Council on 11 May, 2016. In accordance with World Rugby Bye-Law 9.6.2 (c), member unions were invited to submit nominations for the position of World Rugby Chairman and/or …

Inspirational Italian captain Sergio Parisse is to play on until Japan 2019. The 32 year old has been playing international rugby since 2002 and has appeared in four Rugby World Cups to date. Should he play in the 2019 event in Japan he will join a select group of Samoa’s …

ESPN in Latin America has produced an 83 minute documentary titled Revolución Puma. Detailing the progress of Argentine rugby since Rugby World Cup 2007 the documentary provides a detailed analysis of how Argentina made it to the Semi Finals stage of Rugby World Cup 2015 by using a roster of …

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP PRO Rugby Signings  All five of the PRO Rugby teams competing in the inaugural season have at least one foreign player signed on …

A spectacular Vancouver 7s came to a close on Saturday with New Zealand victorious on the second North American stop on the HSBC Sevens Series. With 60,418 in attendance over two days – a new Canadian rugby record – the event can only be described as an overwhelming success, with …