The USA has won back-to-back Americas Rugby Championship titles and on Saturday will begin their march towards the three-peat. Gary Gold has named a squad with the World Cup firmly on his mind and with spots on the plane still up for grabs there is still plenty to prove for …
Read More »Argentina XV name short list to face Brazil
Ignacio Fernández Lobbe has nominated a list of 26 players to prepare for the Argentina XV‘s opening match of the Americas Rugby Championship against Brazil on Saturday. The squad will be captained by flanker Lautaro Bavaro, who returns for a fourth straight ARC tournament. There are 11 players included who …
Read More »Up and Under
Up and Under is a weekly exclusive on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP Major League Rugby It was an historic weekend as Major League Rugby passed another hurdle with the start of it’s second …
Read More »Brazil name extended squad for ARC
Rodolfo Ambrosio has named eight uncapped players in a squad of 37 to prepare for the Americas Rugby Championship. Otherwise the Tupis have collected their strongest possible side for the tournament with six players currently based abroad. Josh Reeves is the only Brazil international in Major League Rugby and he …
Read More »ARN Podcast #6 – Dan Moor, Peter Malcolm, Pete Steinberg
The Podcast is back! After a few weeks off we’re firing it up again with a Major League Rugby special. Our guests today are Canadian international winger Dan Moor from the Toronto Arrows, USA and Austin Elite hooker Peter Malcolm, and MLR commentator Pete Steinberg. Tune in as we talk …
Read More »Road to RWC 2019: Canada
All eyes are on Japan 2019. For the rugby community it does not get any bigger. In under eight months from now the tournament will be into full-swing. Competing in rugby’s showpiece tournament will be twenty countries, in four pools of five. So challenging is the event that only eight …
Read More »Road to RWC 2019: USA
RWC 2019 is under eight months away from kick-off. The showpiece tournament for rugby will feature twenty countries playing in Japan in four challenging pools of five. Only the best two from each will advance to the Quarter Finals. In the second of a series of four articles Americas Rugby …
Read More »Road to RWC 2019: Uruguay
In just under eight months time RWC 2019 will be officially underway. The showpiece tournament for rugby will feature twenty countries playing in Japan in four challenging pools of five. Only the best two from each will advance to the Quarter Finals. In the first of a series of four …
Read More »MLR vs ARC – The Absentee List
Clashes between club and country occur in every professional competition across the world and Major League Rugby is no exception. During the inaugural season in 2018 it was the June test series that interrupted selections, taking a number of players out of the final three weeks of the regular season. …
Read More »Tucumán aiming for Pro side in 2020
The Tucumán Rugby Union (URT) has released a statement declaring their interest in becoming one of two Argentine franchises in the new South American professional competition set to launch in 2020. To date they are the only Argentine provincial union to make a formal public announcement though Córdoba have also …
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