The strong bonds between Argentina and its neighbors were apparent this past week when Paraguayan coaching staff were invited to participate in Los Jaguares training. Los Yakaré’ trainers Eduardo Acosta and Pedro Manuel Ruiz assisted members of Los Jaguares coaching staff. Acosta and Ruiz shared experiences with leading Argentine coaching officials …
Read More »Forward Thinking (Vol. 2, Iss. 4): Americas getting it right, Pacific Islanders wrong
A tale of two stories is set to see the Americas given the green light from World Rugby authorities. In addition to Argentina obtaining equal power to the founding members, Canada, Uruguay and the USA are all on track to obtain voting power on the World Rugby Council, Meanwhile the …
Read More »Fernández Delivers Performance of Career for Clermont
Argentine fly half Patricio Fernández delivered the performance of his career as Clermont downed Bordeaux this afternoon in a round 19 French Top 14 fixture. Having been 19-0 down Clermont fought back to complete a 24-19 away victory in front of 28,332 supporters to retain pole position in the French …
Read More »RWC 2019 Seeding to be Pushed back 12 months
Seeding for the twelve automatic qualified countries for Rugby World Cup 2019 is likely to be Pushed back 12 months, the Scotsman reported this morning. Rugby’s global event will be staged outside of a founding union member for the first time in history when Japan hosts the Rugby World Cup …
Read More »Top 10 Amateur ARC Prospects
One of the best features of the Americas Rugby Championship was the exposure of some of the top up and coming talents in the Americas. Every team featured uncapped players at some point, some more so than others, and in doing so we got a glimpse of some of the …
Read More »Americas Rankings – March 20 2016
With there having been no international competition in the Americas this weekend there are no changes to the Americas Rankings this week. As of March 20 2016 Rugby World Cup 2015 competitors Argentina, USA, Canada and Uruguay remain ranked one through four in that order. There have, nonetheless, been alterations to …
Read More »2016 ARC Dream Team
We’ve debated and arm wrestled and thrown names in a hat, but finally decided on our top XV from the Americas Rugby Championship. Because of the nature of the inaugural tournament we had to lay down a couple stipulations – players had to have started a minimum of two matches to …
Read More »Draw announced for Hong Kong 7s
The pool draw for the 2016 Hong Kong 7s has been released, with 16 teams taking part in the main HSBC Sevens Series competition and another 12 set to compete for core status on the 2016-17 season. All but one team that took part in the wildly successful Vancouver tournament …
Read More »Up and Under
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 PRO Rugby Signings All five of the PRO Rugby teams competing in the inaugural season have at least one foreign player signed on …
Read More »New Zealand victorious at spectacular Vancouver 7s
A spectacular Vancouver 7s came to a close on Saturday with New Zealand victorious on the second North American stop on the HSBC Sevens Series. With 60,418 in attendance over two days – a new Canadian rugby record – the event can only be described as an overwhelming success, with …
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