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Rosters named for Americas Seven in Mar del Plata

Rosters of competing nations have been named for Americas Seven in Mar del Plata. The Rugby Sevens tournament will take place on January 9-10 and serve as both Olympics preparation and Hong Kong Sevens preparation for those involved.

Hosts Argentina named their roster this past week. The 12-man squad features a combination of players certain to compete at Rio 2016 and emerging players for the future. The roster named by Brazil is very much one to prepare for the Olympic Games while South Africa and the USA are both very much experimenting.

Uruguay’s roster is larger with 16 players having been selected. Rather than preparing for the Olympics Uruguay is focusing on qualifying for the 2016 Hong Kong Sevens. The South Americans qualifying tournament will take place later on in January in Viña del Mar, Chile.

# South Africa Academy
1 Carel du Preez
2 Timothy Agaba
3 Frankie Horne
4 Dylan Sage
5 Dewald Human
6 Siviwe Soyizwapi
7 Sphamandla Ngcobo
8 Sibahle Maxwane
9 Sandile Ngcobo
10 Joel Booysen
11 Ruhan Nel
12 Donovan du Rand

 

# Uruguay
1 José Asuaga
2 Mauro Daverio
3 Eric Dos Santos
4 Tomás Etcheverry
5 Nicolás Freitas
6 Ignacio Garcia
7 Guillermo Lijtenstein
8 Juan Ormaechea
9 Alejo Parra
10 Eugenio Plottier
11 Gabriel Puig
12 Lucas Puig
13 Juan Pablo Risso
14 Andrés Rocco
15 Sebastián Schroeder
16 Leandro Segredo

 

# USA
1 Conroy Smith
2 Alex Faison-Donahoe
3 Peter Malcolm
4 Aaron Davis
5 Aladdin Schirmer
6 Jope Motokana
7 Mike Te’o
8 Seth Halliman
9 Kingsley McGowan
10 Tua Laei
11 Joey Sok
12 Anthony Welmers

 

# Brazil
1 André Silva
2 Arthur Bergo
3 Felipe Silva
4 Gustavo Albuquerque
5 Laurent Bourda-Couhet
6 Lucas Muller
7 Lucas Romeu
8 Lucas Tranquez
9 Lucas Duque
10 Martin Schaefer
11 Moisés Duque
12 Pedro Lopes
13 Robert Tenório
14 Rodrigo José Andrioli
15 Stefano Giantorno

 

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Formally created in June 2015, this website's goal is to increase media exposure of the Tier 2 rugby nations, and create a hub with a focus on the stories of rugby in the Americas - North, Central and South.

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