Chile

Chile will play a friendly against the Argentina XV on Wednesday, January 23, at the home of CASI in Buenos Aires. The match will serve as a warm-up for the two sides ahead of the Americas Rugby Championship. They will meet again formally in the final round on March 9 …

The Tucumán Rugby Union (URT) has released a statement declaring their interest in becoming one of two Argentine franchises in the new South American professional competition set to launch in 2020. To date they are the only Argentine provincial union to make a formal public announcement though Córdoba have also …

Our first weekly selection of the new year had contributions from the Challenge and Champions Cups, Spain’s Liga Heineken, the RFU Championship, the Pro D2, and a few mentions for the Major League Rugby preseason match between Glendale and San Diego. Unfortunately we were unable to watch Austin and Houston …

Chile completed an historic sevens double over the weekend as they won the Viña del Mar Sevens in style to claim their first ever Sudamérica title. After going unbeaten at Punta del Este a week ago, the Cóndores met defeat for the first time in the pool stage but recovered …

Despite being just ahead of a World Cup year, 2018 mimicked 2017 with 66 players capped for the first time by one of the Americas Rugby Championship nations. Some of these names may not appear again on senior international team sheets but others are certain to make their mark over …

Argentina’s roster has been named with one change for the Viña del Mar 7’s. Maximiliano Fillizola replaces Marcos Elizagaray who had been named in the original roster which was released last month by the UAR. The 12-man roster for the Viña del Mar 7’s is entirely different to that from last …

The pools have been confirmed for the 2019 Viña del Mar 7’s. The Chilean city will play host to the second leg of the 2019 Sudamérica Rugby Series competition on January 13-14. The 2019 Seven Viña falls one weekend after the 2019 Seven Punta. Played this weekend in the Uruguayan …

Unbeaten Chile have been crowned 2019 Seven Punta Champions. Los Cóndores 7’s defeated Argentina 7-5 in the tournament final inn Punta del Este, doing so with a try from Lucas Westcott with time up. The conversion saw Chile winning the match and securing the title. In being crowned champions Chile …

Argentina, and Chile impressed on day one of the 2019 Seven Punta. Played today in Punta del Este, Uruguay the opening day of the two day competition saw some high quality rugby being played in what is the 30th edition of the annual tournament. In Pool A Chile went undefeated. …

Colombia has named a 12-man roster for the upcoming Sudamérica Sevens Series. Played over two legs in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and Viña del Mar, Chile the overall winner from South America (excluding Argentina) will qualify for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series and to play in the 2019 Hong Kong …