In an open letter posted on the Sudamérica Rugby website the organization’s President Carlos Barbieri proclaimed that player numbers have now passed the 500,000 mark in South America Rugby. “we have exceeded half-a-million players throughout the region and we were the second World Rugby region in terms of the Get Into Rugby …

Los Pumas Sevens Head Coach Santiago Gómez Cora has eyed four Pumas for the Olympics. In his World Rugby column, the former Argentine Rugby Sevens great named World Cup Pumas Santiago Cordero, Matías Moroni, Jerónimo de la Fuente, and Javier Ortega Desio as players he intends to take with him to Rio de …

National u20 standouts Paul Ciulini and Lucas Rumball are among 28 players named by Canada in their squad to participate in the Americas Rugby Championship, of which only nine traveled to the World Cup and one further having won senior caps. The hugely inexperienced group include only two players based …

The Estadio Municipal de La Pintana in Santiago, Chile, will play host to Canada when they face Los Condores in the final round of the Americas Rugby Championship. Originally slated for Saturday, March 5, a Chilean media source has indicated that the match has now been moved to Sunday, March …

Jamie Cudmore will be added to the Canadian senior men’s team for the Americas Rugby Championship, but for the first time as a coach rather than a player. Americas Rugby News has confirmed through reliable sources that the Clermont second row will be included as a forwards coach for the upcoming …

This year is moving quickly already, so it’s time we wrapped up last year’s awards. Let’s fire it up again with our picks for Try of the Year. Inevitably the majority come from the World Cup, but there is room for a little sevens, especially some magic from the first …

Los Condores preparation for the upcoming Americas Rugby Championship continued this past weekend with the second of two matches being played in Antofagasta. Chile defeated the Selection North in 41-20. The test side opened an early advantage with second-rower Felipe Bassaletti crossing for a 12th minute try. Outside center Matías …

2016 is to be a year like no other for rugby in the Americas with Chile being a significant benefactor. The tiresome struggle to secure regular international competition outside of South America is now over. With it Chile’s chances of realizing the dream of playing on the global stage will accelerate. …

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 Glendale Raptors and Legends Cup The Glendale Raptors came out victorious over the Seattle Saracens on aggregate to win the Legends Cup. …

The highly anticipated Legends Cup between the Seattle Saracens and Glendale Raptors lived up to the hype. The two powerhouse clubs went toe to toe on Saturday. Both clubs coming away with clean 1-1-1 split in their matches, with Glendale edging out Seattle 40-33 on aggregate. The event was hopefully …

Five referees from four countries will take charge of matches in the re-vamped Americas Rugby Championship. Two from Argentina, and one each from Canada, USA, and Uruguay have been appointed to the six-team competition that kicks off on February 6. Each referee has been assigned three of the 15 total …

Liam Middleton has been forced to make three changes to his Canada 7s team that heads to New Zealand for the next leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series. Nanyak Dala, Justin Douglas, and Mike Fuailefau drop out from the team that took part in Cape Town. In their place …

Canada u20 begins their final preparations for the February 13 qualifying match against the USA in Texas this weekend, with 39 players headed to Victoria to stake their claim on one of 26 final roster spots for the one-off match. With victory comes a ticket to the World Rugby u20 …

Less than two months out from the start of the new Americas Rugby Championship, Chile’s head coach resigned. In the latest edition of Hands On!, Americas Rugby News caught up with Paul Healy, the former head coach of Los Condores, to give readers a first-hand account of why he stepped …

Earlier this week the Fédération Haïtienne de rugby took an important step forward into being fully integrated into the international rugby community. With Haiti Rugby unveiling an executive Committee the union of the Caribbean nation is closer to becoming a future member of Americas Rugby North. Presently the entity still …

Brett Thompson has replaced Maka Unufe in the USA Men’s Eagles 7s traveling squad headed for the South Pacific. Unufe’s status is described simply as ‘unavailable’. Thompson was not in the initial group named to take part in the Wellington and Sydney stops on the HSBC Sevens Series, having missed …

Argentina’s roster for the Americas Rugby Championship has been named. Head Coach of the Argentina XV, Pablo Bouza will be taking with him 26 players to North America for the opening round of the competition. The Argentina XV will play away to the USA in Houston, Texas on February 06. …

The last weekend of pool play in the British & Irish Cup is upon us, and a number of Americas players are again in action as teams vie for spots in the knock-outs. Leinster ‘A’, Doncaster, Yorkshire Carnegie, London Welsh, and Bedford have already qualified with the last three spots …

Upcoming international competition for teams from Uruguay and Argentina have seen a collaborated effort this week. Los Teros have been in Training with Los Jaguares in a mutually beneficial arrangement before the upcoming Americas Rugby Championship and Super Rugby competitions.  Los Teros are to begin the Americas Rugby Championship in three weeks time, …

This afternoon PRO Rugby North America officially announced San Diego as their third team location, even though Southern California wasn’t in the initial plans for PRO. When the competition officially launched in November, organizers stated their would be two teams in three different regions… California, Mountains, and Northeast. PRO were …