Brazil’s impressive home victory over Colombia on Saturday sees the Tupis rising in the World and Americas Rankings. The Portuguese speaking country’s 44-0 win over Colombia sees Brazil rising from 9th to 7th in the Americas, to trade places with Colombia, and from 45th to 42nd in the world. It …
Read More »Monaco and Dublin to host Olympic Qualifiers
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 …
Read More »Brazil falls to 9th in Americas
Following a 2-0 series loss against Germany Brazil’s World Ranking has suffered with the world’s fifth largest country falling to 45th in the world. The new ranking sees Brazil falling behind both Trinidad & Tobago and Colombia to be 9th in the Americas. Prior to facing Germany Brazil was already ranked …
Read More »Forward Thinking (Vol. 1, Iss. 23): Move to 24 Team World Cup
Many people, myself included, have put forward the idea of Rugby World Cups expanding from the current 20-team format to one of 24. The central argument behind the change is that there are teams just as good as some of those at Rugby World Cups who miss out. Uruguay Passes the …
Read More »Guatemala Topple El Salvador in Test Match
The Central American republics of Guatemala and El Salvador met earlier today in a warm-up fixture for the upcoming South American C Championship to be played in El Salvador next month. Joining Guatemala and El Salvador in the four-nations tournament will be Costa Rica and Panama. With the Copa Hermãn Arrua …
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 »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 …
Read More »Colombia beat Mexico to win Sudamérica B u19s
Colombia’s impressive year of 2015 continues. Having seen the women’s Rugby Sevens team, Las Tucanes, qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the junior program continue to deliver results. Colombia hosted and won the 2015 u19 South American B Championship this past week. Los Tucanes began …
Read More »Colombia and Venezuela win South American u19 matches
After two rounds the host nation of the South American B u19 championship, Colombia is now the only undefeated team involved in the four nation tournament. Colombia ran out 39-9 winners over Peru on Wednesday evening to advance to the final. The round’s other match saw neighboring Venezuela win 19-12 …
Read More »Brazilian Women win Plate Final in Ireland
Brazil’s national women’s Rugby Sevens team haqd a successful weekend in Ireland where, on Sunday, they won the Plate Final of a qualifying competition for the World Rugby Women’s Rugby Sevens Circuit. Competing were teams from the world over with Brazil being joined by Colombia and Mexico are representatives of …
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