Argentina

Argentina prop Juan Figallo is to Remain at Saracens, the Aviva Premiership club confirmed this morning. His new multi-year deal will see him continuing to play his rugby in England in the coming seasons. Figallo joined Saracens from Montpellier who were forced to release him on medical grounds. The Argentine front-rower’s …

Retired Puma Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe has signed a one year extension with Toulon. The 34 year old will remain at the Mediterranean club until June 2017 which will see him completing eight years wearing the colors of Toulon since his arrival in France from England. Fernández Lobbe arrived in …

And so we come to our final team selection of the year. While much of the side is similar to our World Cup XV, there are four players whose form prior to the tournament merited greater consideration when it came to selecting our Dream Team for the year as a …

Los Pumitas are to play in Santa Fé, on Saturday February 13 against the senior club side from CRAI. Argentina’s under 20 team is to use the fixture as preparation for this year’s under 20 World Championship in England. Their opponents will being doing so for the Nacional de Clubes. …

There were heaps of exciting stories to cover in the Americas during the 2015 calendar year, which prompted a trio of writers to come to together to create this site. While that in itself is notable, at least in our eyes, we could hardly give this award to ourselves! In …

In an open letter posted on the Sudamérica Rugby website the organization’s President Carlos Barbieri proclaimed that player numbers have now passed the 500,000 mark in South America Rugby. “we have exceeded half-a-million players throughout the region and we were the second World Rugby region in terms of the Get Into Rugby …

Los Pumas Sevens Head Coach Santiago Gómez Cora has eyed four Pumas for the Olympics. In his World Rugby column, the former Argentine Rugby Sevens great named World Cup Pumas Santiago Cordero, Matías Moroni, Jerónimo de la Fuente, and Javier Ortega Desio as players he intends to take with him to Rio de …

This year is moving quickly already, so it’s time we wrapped up last year’s awards. Let’s fire it up again with our picks for Try of the Year. Inevitably the majority come from the World Cup, but there is room for a little sevens, especially some magic from the first …

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP Glendale Raptors and Legends Cup The Glendale Raptors came out victorious over the Seattle Saracens on aggregate to win the Legends Cup. …

Five referees from four countries will take charge of matches in the re-vamped Americas Rugby Championship. Two from Argentina, and one each from Canada, USA, and Uruguay have been appointed to the six-team competition that kicks off on February 6. Each referee has been assigned three of the 15 total …