Two Brazilian players are in search of obtaining PRO Rugby contracts. Having already played rugby in the USA this year the opportunity of potentially being signed to play the sport they love in the World Rugby and USA Rugby sanctioned professional league has the players excited.
In March of this year Maringá rugby player Lucas Vieira travelled to the USA to play rugby for Californian club the Outlaws (Thousand Oaks). Having performed well Vieira was invited to play a second season for the club and now he has his sights set even higher.
Together with Stafano Padilla, Brazilian 2014 champion with Curitiba, he had the opportunity to participate in the recent selective process from which the players will be integrated to play PRO Rugby.
Daniel Venturole of Portal do Rugby caught up with Vieira who commented: “We found out on Thursday that there would be this combine, there was no time to train for anything, we were very much out of form, but we nonetheless gave it our all.”
Source: Portal do Rugby