World Rugby’s weekly broadcast, Total Rugby ran a feature on Argentine fly half Nicolás Sánchez this week. The Puma was the leading point scorer in this year’s Rugby World Cup, scoring 97 points. He was credited as having been heavily involved in his team’s campaign, finishing fourth in the tournament. …

Argentine inside center Juan Pablo Socino will be seeing out his contract with the Newcastle Falcons, thereby ruling himself out of representing Argentina. The 27 year old is under contract with the Aviva Premiership side until 2018. His decision was made before the Rugby World Cup where he earned his …

With Scott LaValla and Todd Clever out of Rugby World Cup 2015 an opening presented itself for other U.S. players to earn their spot in the Eagles team. A number of players had their opportunities but no player was arguably as impressive as Andrew Durutalo. The 28 year old New …

Canadian prop Andrew Tiedemann has signed for French Pro D2 club Bourgoin-Jallieu. The 27-year-old World Cup squad member had only just arrived in Hong Kong in recent weeks to join HKFC, but will quickly head nearly 10,000 km west to join his new teammates in the east of France. Tiedemann …

Argentine international second-rower Mariano Galarza will make his first appearance of the Aviva Premiership season against the Northampton Saints at Franklins’ Gardens on Friday. The 28 year old has been named on the bench for the away fixture. Galarza’s last appearance on a rugby field was on September 20 for …

Argentine tighthead prop Lucas Martínez will stay on in France for the duration of the 2015-2016 season The 26 year old confirmed with ESPN Scrum that he has signed a new deal with Castres to remain playing for the Top 14 club until the end of the current season in …

Americas Rugby News has learned through highly reliable sources that the USA Eagles will play home matches during the inaugural Americas Rugby Cup (Americas Six Nations) in Texas and Florida. The matches are to be against Argentina, Canada and Chile and will be over the three opening rounds of the …

Brazilian women’s rugby player Paula Ishibashi has won the prestigious award as best Rugby Player of 2015, as determined by the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (Brazilian Olympic Committee – COB). Ishibashi plays for São Paulo club side SPAC and is considered as being one of her country’s best players. She was a medalist …

World Rugby have put together a highlights-package looking at Santiago Cordero’s performances for Argentina at Rugby World Cup 2015. The speedster left his mark on the tournament by breaking the line, crossing for tries and creating opportunities for others. Still aged just 21 Cordero has his whole career ahead of …

The national men’s Brazilian rugby team, the Tupis are in Blumenau, Santa Catarina preparing to face Germany this coming Saturday. The fixture is to be the first of two test matches with the second taking place in São Paulo on Friday December 04. The 29 athletes selected by Argentine Head …