Uruguay

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 Aaron Carpenter The former Canadian captain has worn the skipper’s armband for the past two weeks for Cornish Pirates, and led …

The final round of the Campeonato Argentino was played on Saturday, confirming the national under 21 provincial champion and the play-offs matches for promotion and relegation. Buenos Aires had already been confirmed as national provincial champions last weekend. With a 21-20 win over Córdoba Tucumán celebrated as under 21 champions. Salta …

Kicking-off round 9 of the French Top 14 will be Montpellier vs La Rochelle and the visitors will be fielding a northern-Argentine product, Leandro Cedaro. The second-rower will start the fixture and will be looking for a fine performance to continue pressing for a return to the Italian test team. …

Americas Rugby News has learned through highly reliable sources that the USA Eagles will play home matches during the inaugural Americas Rugby Cup (Americas Six Nations) in Texas and Florida. The matches are to be against Argentina, Canada and Chile and will be over the three opening rounds of the …

Many people, myself included, have put forward the idea of Rugby World Cups expanding from the current 20-team format to one of 24. The central argument behind the change is that there are teams just as good as some of those at Rugby World Cups who miss out. Uruguay Passes the …

The latest edition of the Seven de la Unión de Rugby del Uruguay (URU Sevens) was played this past weekend with 12 of the country’s clubs competing for the title. Played at the national rugby stadium, the Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo on Saturday Old Boys overcame Old Christians to claim the …

Both Canada and Uruguay have fallen one place each in the World Rankings with Canada now ranked 19th in the world and Uruguay 20th. Moving ahead of both is Russia who completed wins this past week over Hong Kong, Portugal and Zimbabwe. Despite losing badly against Spain Chile remains 24th in …

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 Argentina In years gone by Argentina has suffered greatly from the transition process which occurs in the year after Rugby World …

With the roster confirmed the Uruguay XV travels to the Argentine city of Bahía Blanca to face the Unión de Rugby del Sur in a fourth round match in the second division of the Argentine Provincial Championship, the Torneio Argentino de Uniones also known as the Campeonato Argentino. Coached by Guzmán Barreiro the Uruguay …

Representatives from 10 national unions and federations, all members of Sudamérica Rugby, took part in the successful Leading Rugby workshop in the Peru capital of Lima over three busy days of meetings and presentations. Leading Rugby is a World Rugby development programme to inspire the leaders of unions to grow …