A 26-man roster has been named to represent Costa Rica at the 2015 South American C Championship to be played this month in El Salvador. The three round tournament will be played from December 06-12 with Costa Rica entering as the favorites. Costa Rica’s opening fixture will be against Guatemala, a …
Read More »Las Tucanes Travel to Dubai
The national women’s team of Colombia, Las Tucanes have departed their country to compete in Dubai where they will, for the first time, take part in the World Rugby Sevens Circuit. The Colombians will play on Friday and Saturday at the Sevens Stadium in Dubai facing Great Britain, Japan and …
Read More »‘Get into Rugby’ aids rugby popularity in Colombia
The World Rugby’s Get into Rugby program has encouraged an increasing number of children and teenagers to play the sport of rugby. By working with the community the sport is gaining ground in the country and the level of rugby being played is also developing. Involved in the initiative are Colombia’s …
Read More »Canada, Uruguay Fall in World Rankings
Both Canada and Uruguay have fallen one place each in the World Rankings with Canada now ranked 19th in the world and Uruguay 20th. Moving ahead of both is Russia who completed wins this past week over Hong Kong, Portugal and Zimbabwe. Despite losing badly against Spain Chile remains 24th in …
Read More »World Rugby Ensures Continued Growth in South America
Representatives from 10 national unions and federations, all members of Sudamérica Rugby, took part in the successful Leading Rugby workshop in the Peru capital of Lima over three busy days of meetings and presentations. Leading Rugby is a World Rugby development programme to inspire the leaders of unions to grow …
Read More »Colombia Rise to 8th in Americas
Completing the South American B Championship undefeated has seen Colombia rise to 44th place in the official World Rugby World Rankings. This sees Los Tucanes ranked just five places below Brazil, their opponents in the South American A play-off in which the winner will play in the 2016 South American …
Read More »Up and Under
The 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 Player Potential Last Monday’s announcement that professional rugby is coming to the USA in April 2016 was music to …
Read More »Historic Meeting Held in Peru
While the test teams from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela took to the field this week in Lima World Rugby authorities held a workshop featuring ten member nations of Sudamérica Rugby, the regional body responsible for rugby in South and Central America. “Rugby Americas will be able to help both regions …
Read More »Colombia Win South American B Championship
Los Tucanes are the 2015 South American B Rugby Champions. The Colombian men’s national team went undefeated throughout the Four Nations tournament to complete a third consecutive tournament victory and set up a repechage play-off against Brazil, the bottom placed side from the 2015 South American A Championship. With Colombia having completed …
Read More »World Rugby Unveil Changes to RWC Qualification
The governing body of rugby, World Rugby has unveiled an altered qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2019 which will be held in Japan. Revealed are where the 8 qualifying countries will come from with some continental regions having advantages over others. The 8 qualifying teams will join the 12 …
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