Argentina

Italian Head Coach Jacques Brunel has named his team to face Scotland this Saturday in Torino. The fixture is to be the first between the teams since the Six Nations when Italy won away from home at Murrayfield. Argentine Sergio Parisse will not play this Saturday which has seen Zebre …

Argentina’s tighthead prop complications have taken a further hit today with news that Matías Díaz has been ruled out of the World Cup. The former Super Rugby Highlander had been named as one of three tighthead specialists for the tournament by Head Coach Daniel Hourcade on Sunday but he will …

The global governing body of the sport of rugby, World Rugby has come out and admitted the error of determining the Pools for Rugby World Cups three years before the tournaments are played. The groups for the upcoming tournament to be played in England and Wales were known as long …

Former Argentine international fly half Ignacio Mieres has been linked to a move back to France to play in either the second or third division for Dax. Mieres himself posted photos on social media over the past few days of him in Dax itself. Reports have also reached the French media …

A day after Argentina’s Rugby World Cup squad was named the team’s Pool C rivals, Tonga have confirmed their player roster for the twenty-team tournament. Included are no fewer than twenty players involved in the recent Pacific Nations Cup in which Tonga finished third. Currently ranked 10th in the world …

Daniel Hourcade’s naming of his squad of 31 players for the upcoming Rugby World Cup was genuinely well accepted. Questions were raised over certain selections, most notably being the decision to take only two hookers but three inside centers. Little though was spoken about in relation to a widely unknown phenomena, …

The 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 Uruguay U19s Los Teritos completed a flawless campaign in the Sudámerica Under 19 tournament in Paraguay this past week, winning all …

Argentine Head Coach Daniel Hourcade has taken a modern approach by selecting a 17-14 split of forwards and backs to take to the Rugby World Cup which gets underway on September 19. Following yesterday’s international against South Africa Hourcade was not present for the post match media conference. Instead he …

A large crowd of 50,000 gathered at Velez Sarsfeld stadium in Buenos Aires this afternoon for Argentina’s final home international of the year. With the match following last Saturday’s historic win in Durban Los Pumas were looking to give their home fans a similar send-off. The start of the match …

Veteran Pumas Marcos Ayerza and Juan Martín Hernández will not face South Africa in today’s Rugby World Cup warm-up fixture in Buenos Aires. The pair have been ruled out with Daniel Hourcade forced into making late changes. In place of Ayerza Hourcade has elevated Lucas Noguera Paz to the starting …