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The World Rugby Executive Committee has approved the immediate establishment of a working group to review Regulation 8. It is what determines player eligibility for international duty. Current eligibility criteria as determined by World Rugby Regulation 8 state that a player can play at test level for a country by: Country of …

World Rugby has named referees from Argentina, Canada and the USA for 2016-2017 international 7s competition. Argentine officials Damián Schneider (pictured) and Pali De Luca will officiate in the men’s competition. They will be joined by Canadian Chris Assmus and Mike O’Brien of the USA. A second Canadian, Rose LaBrèche …

Brazil will play against Portugal in Coimbra and Germany in Leipzig, the CBRu has confirmed. Brazil will play three end-of-year matches in Europe. The tour will serve as preparation for the 2017 Americas Rugby Championship. The matches are to be played on November 19 and 26 against Germany and December 01 against …

Uruguay will host the 2017 Junior World Trophy, local rugby source Referi has confirmed. The tournament is World Rugby’s official under 20 ‘A’ competition. Unión de Rugby del Uruguay (URU) president Sebastián Piñeyrúa commented “we are very happy that World Rugby has confirmed that we will be hosting the Junior World …

Head coach Esteban Meneses has included nine veterans of the 2015 Rugby World Cup in his Uruguay ‘A’ team to take part in the upcoming Americas Pacific Challenge, with 13 taking part in the 2016 Americas Rugby Championship. The strong core of the team is backed by some of Uruguay’s …

Colombian Andrés Zafra Tarazona has been named in Lyon’s roster for the European Challenge Cup. The  20-year-old is now on the verge of becoming his country’s first ever player to play European rugby. The 110kg and 1,95m second-rower joined Lyon from Colombia ahead of the 2016-2017 Top 14 season. This …

Argentina is to officially bid to host Rugby World Cup 2027. Having earlier made the intention known the Mauricio Macri government presented their candidacy to World Rugby officials this past weekend. Macri delivered the bid to World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont. Also present were Vice-chairman Agustín Pichot, CEO Brett Gosper and UAR President Carlos Araujo. The …

Both Rugby World Cup 2019 Semi Final matches will be played at the Yokohama International Stadium. Akira Shimazu, the secretary-general of Japan’s event organizing committee, announced the plans at a convention in Yokohama on international sports facilities on Monday. Shimmers confirmed that the venue is to be the center-piece stadium for the …

On this day in 2015 Argentina faced Tonga in Leicester. The match was the 7th fixture of Pool C of the Rugby World Cup. Both teams were playing for the third time. With one win and one loss each it was a must-win game for both countries. Injury concerns saw Argentina …

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 Colombia Los Tucanes are a team going places. Colombia’s desire to win promotion out of the South American B Championship was on show …