The USA Men’s Eagles will play three home test matches in the summer of 2024. The USA will have home matches in July against Romania and Scotland and in August against Canada. The first two will be part of the mid-year or July Internationals while the North American battle will …
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A notable feature of Rugby World Cup 2023 was Canada’s absence. Never before had Canada missed out on qualifying for a Men’s Rugby World Cup. The USA fell at the final hurdle against Portugal which meant North America had no team at the event for the first time. Spain was …
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Pablo Casas’ name was missing from the Selknam roster for Super Rugby Americas 2024. The reason for this is that Casas is now playing his rugby in Europe. The 16 time capped Cóndor is now playing for Steaua Bucureşti in Romania. Casas is the last Chilean player to be confirmed …
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World Rugby has allocated the 2024 U20 Trophy to Scotland. This comes with controversy after Scotland was relegated from the U20 Championship to the U20 Trophy and remains in the competition but did not compete in regional qualifiers. Scotland did not have a good 2023 U20 Trophy campaign in Kenya. …
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Daniel Hourcade is now the Consultant of Portugal. The former Head Coach of Argentina takes up the position until July. This means that the man who coached Argentina to the Semi Finals of Rugby World Cup 2015 will drive Portugal during the Rugby Europe Championship and the July Internationals. Portugal …
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Expansion from 20 to 24 teams for the Men’s Rugby World Cup will mean changes in qualifying. How the four new spots will be allocated remains unconfirmed. What is factual rather than speculative is that the Americas and Europe are the two most productive of World Rugby’s defined regions. Identifying …
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Changes are coming to the peak of the sport of rugby. The World Cup will be expanded to 24 teams for 2027. An official announcement will be made before the end of Rugby World Cup 2023. Writing for The Guardian, Robert Kitson confirmed the expansion. Details of the format are …
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Up and Under is an Americas Rugby News exclusive. It identifies the best and the worst involving the Americas from the past seven days. UP Uruguay Claim the Maximum over Namibia Uruguay secured a bonus point win over a defiant Namibia in Lyon. Uruguay’s 36-26 win was by five …
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One of the lessons of Rugby World Cup 2023 was given by Pablo Lemoine. Following Chile’s 71-0 defeat against England the Uruguayan hit out at World Rugby’s handling of Tier 2. Lemoine described how hard it was playing a vastly superior team. Chile went from playing Brazil in qualifiers in …
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The twenty competitors at Rugby World Cup 2023 represent countries that are both large and small territorially and also in terms of population. Australia and Argentina are the largest territories while Japan comfortably has the largest population. This is a marked change from Rugby World Cup 2019. Click here …
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