South Africa

Rugby World Cup 2015, like previous tournaments will bring together teams who otherwise never play against one another. World Champions New Zealand will face both Georgia and Namibia for the first time, South Africa vs Japan will be another first as will Wales vs Uruguay. There are a variety of …

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 Canada At last a return to winning ways for Canada. The 19-12, three tries to two win over the visiting …

Veteran Springbok center Jean de Villiers will lead South Africa at the Rugby World Cup it was confirmed today. He is to be joined by Bryan Habana and Victor Matfield as players to have earned 100 or more caps. Head Coach Heyneke Meyer has opted for 17 forwards and 14 …

Joaquín Tuculet is Argentina’s starting fullback and is one of 31 players named in his country’s World Cup roster. This week Americas Rugby News had the opportunity to talk with him about his involvement in Los Pumas, the team’s development and the upcoming Rugby World Cup campaign. Following Argentina’s victory against …

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 …

The global governing body of the sport of rugby, World Rugby has come out and admitted the error of determining the Pools for Rugby World Cups three years before the tournaments are played. The groups for the upcoming tournament to be played in England and Wales were known as long …

A large crowd of 50,000 gathered at Velez Sarsfeld stadium in Buenos Aires this afternoon for Argentina’s final home international of the year. With the match following last Saturday’s historic win in Durban Los Pumas were looking to give their home fans a similar send-off. The start of the match …

Veteran Pumas Marcos Ayerza and Juan Martín Hernández will not face South Africa in today’s Rugby World Cup warm-up fixture in Buenos Aires. The pair have been ruled out with Daniel Hourcade forced into making late changes. In place of Ayerza Hourcade has elevated Lucas Noguera Paz to the starting …

In the final Pumas test match before naming his 31-man Rugby World Cup squad Head Coach Daniel Hourcade has made seven changes from the side that made history in Durban. The test match at Buenos Aires’ Velez Sarsfeld is to be a final chance for a number of players to …

Juan Imhoff crossed for a hat-trick against South Africa in the third round Rugby Championship match in Durban. He became the first player to do so against the Springboks at international level to write down his name in the history books.