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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 |
