Chile’s 36 Players for Americas Rugby Championship

Chile’s 36 players are known for there first stage of the Americas Rugby Championship. Head Coach Bernard Charreyre has reduced the roster from 50 to 36 players for Los Condores’ away matches against Brazil and Canada. Following this weekend’s camp the roster will be further reduced with the official travel party named.

Chile face Brazil in São Paulo to open the second annual Americas Rugby Championship. The fixture will be played at Pacaembu Stadium on Friday February 03. From there Los Cóndores will travel to British Columbia province to face Canada on the following weekend.

Of the 36 players two are uncapped. Viña Rugby winger Franco Velarde and Curupaytí prop Gonzalo Martínez. Based in Buenos Aires, the Curupaytí club produced Mario Ledesma. Martínez joined the club from Sporting in Santiago.

One name not included is that of Sebastian Kalm. The Ohio Aviators No 8 is reportedly to play for the USA starting from July. The former Chilean u20 player went on to play rugby at college in the USA and became an All-American. Now a professional in PRO Rugby he may debut against Canada in Rugby World Cup qualifying this year.

Also missing for the time being are European-based players. Question marks remain as to their involvement this year. Bayonne prop Ramón Ayarza and second-rower Pablo Huete are the leading names expected to feature for Chile.

Having missed the second test against South Korea Benjamín Soto has returns to captain Los Cóndores. Javier Richard filled-in for him in the second test but is currently missing through injury. Center Matías Nordenflycht returns to the roster. Nordenflycht led the points scoring in the 2016 Americas Rugby Championship.

POSITION	PLAYER	UNION
Prop	Lucas Bordigoni	Viña Rugby
Prop	Vittorio Lastra	Old Mackayans
Prop	Gonzalo Martínez	Curuaytí, Argentina
Prop	José Tomás Munita	Universidad Católica
Prop	Claudio Zamorano	Stade Français
Hooker	Tomás Dussaillant	Old Boys
Hooker	Rodrigo Moya	PWCC
Hooker	Manuel Gurruchaga	COBS
Second-row	Nikola Bursic	COBS
Second-row	Mario Mayol	Old Boys
Flanker	Manuel Dagnino	Old Mackayans
Flanker	Cristóbal Niedmann	PWCC
Flanker	Eduardo Orpis	COBS
Flanker	Arturo Seeman	Old Georgians
No 8	Nicanor Machuca	Old Reds
No 8	Anton Petrowitsch	COBS
No 8	Benjamín Soto	Stade Français
Scrum Half	Sergio Bascuñán	Old Mackayans
Scrum Half	Jan Hasenlechner	COBS
Scrum Half	Beltrán Vergara	Old Boys
Fly Half	Francisco Cruz	COBS
Fly Half	Jorge Castillo	ARUA
Fly Half	Francisco González Moller	Sporting
Center	José Ignacio Larenas	Universidad Católica
Center	Matías Nordenflycht	COBS
Center	Simón Pardakhy	Unattached
Center	Ricardo Sifri	Universidad Católica
Center	Mauricio Urrutia	Sporting
Wing	Martín Fernández	COBS
Wing	Tomás Ianiszewski	Old Locks
Wing	Juan Pablo Larenas	Universidad Católica
Wing	Franco Velarde	Viña Rugby
Wing	Pedro Pablo Verschae	Viña Rugby
Wing	Martín Verschae	Viña Rugby
Fullback	Rodrigo Fernández	COBS
Fullback	Francisco Urroz	Old Reds