Japan

Both the USA and Argentina are to be represented as the Sunwolves play their first pre-season game against a Top League All-star team on Saturday. Andrew Durutalo and Tomás Leonardí are to start for the Sunwolves, playing as the team’s flankers. 30-year-old Shota Horie will captain the Japanese Super Rugby franchise …

Canada will play test matches against Japan, Russia, and Italy during the three-week World Rugby international test window. Rugby Canada Jim Dixon announced the opponents during his cross-country ‘Town Hall’ meetings over the past week. Venues are still to be confirmed, with tentative dates targeted for the three Saturdays – …

SANZAAR CEO Andy Marinos has today announced the officials for the upcoming professional competition. Argentina’s Federico Anselmi has been listed on the Super Rugby Referee Panel by SANZAAR. At an executive committee in Sydney, Australia Marinos noted “the 2016 referee squad contains 22 members, of which nine are in line …

Andrew Durutalo and Tomás Leonardi are among 34 players who have been officially named as part of the first ever Sunwolves team to take part in Super Rugby beginning in 2016. As announced previously on Americas Rugby News, Durutalo leaves the USA Eagles 7s to take part in the competition …

Argentine back-rower Tomás Leonardí is tipped to play for the Sunwolves, Japan’s new Super Rugby franchise debuting in the 2016 competition. Americas Rugby News has been told that the player is expected to be announced in the coming days together with USA flanker Andrew Durutalo and the entire player roster. Now …

US Eagles flanker Andrew Durutalo will play for new Japanese franchise the Sunwolves in the upcoming Super Rugby competition. The move has been rumored for some time and is expected to be announced in the coming days. With growing concern about the state of the franchise, at the moment without …

World Rugby have officially added a fifth stop to the 2015-16 HSBC Women’s World Sevens Series, confirming what was already announced a week ago in the introduction to the opening round of the series in Dubai. Clermont-Ferrand will play hosts on May 28-29, the first official stop in France on …

The city-state of Monaco and Dublin, Ireland, will host the final Olympic Sevens qualification tournaments in June. World Rugby has set the dates for the men on June 18-19 at Stade Louis II and the women a week later on June 25-26 at the UCD Bowl. Only the winning team …

Defending HSBC Sevens Series champions Fiji got their 2015/16 season off to a perfect start as they rolled through all comers topped off with a Cup final victory against England. An early try for Tom Bowen put the champions on alert, but Savenaca Rawaca burst through to draw it level …

Australia proved to be a step ahead of the field as the Pearls took home the title in round one of the Women’s World Sevens Series. Defending champions New Zealand were shown the door by their neighbors in a terrific quarter-final encounter that went right to the wire. The semi-final …