Rodrigo Capó Ortega has officially retired from rugby. The legendary Uruguayan international was to play out the current season with Castres Olympique, but with the remainder of the Top 14 schedule cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic it means the 39-year-old’s career has come to an end. Hailing from Montevideo, Capó Ortega …
Read More »Full Match – Brazil vs Uruguay 2016
Brazil hosted Uruguay in the second round of the inaugural Americas Rugby Championship (ARC) in 2016. The teams met in São Paulo and competed in an entertaining 33-29 match. Brazil invested heavily in players for the competition. This saw a lot of investment into eligibile players. This helped elevate the …
Read More »Full Match – Chile vs Brazil 2012
Chile had home advantage against Brazil in the 2012 South American Championship. The teams met in La Reina in Santiago on May 20, 2012 in what was an opening round fixture. The competition was a four nations tournament that also involved Argentina and Uruguay. Chile and Brazil were seeded third …
Read More »Memorable Americas Tries – Rodrigo Capó Ortega vs Samoa 2003
Known the world over for winning the Top 14 twice with Castres, Rodrigo Capó Ortega ha a tremendous career. The Uruguayan second-rower played N8 for his country at RWC 2003. He appeared in all four matches of the competition for Los Teros. He genuinely stood out at the back of …
Read More »MLR 2020 Review – NOLA Gold
This was supposed to be the season that NOLA pushed through into the Major League Rugby playoffs, having missed out by the narrowest of margins in 2019. It’s hard to say how things might have gone with their early season form inconsistent as they suffered two defeats at home. RESULTS …
Read More »Full Match – Scotland vs Uruguay 1999
Rugby World Cups were expanded from 16 to 20 teams for the 1999 tournament. The expansion benefits the Americas not only with Uruguay debuting, but also with the USA qualifying after the Eagles had missed out on a place at RWC 1995. Uruguay famously debuted against Spain. In defeating Los …
Read More »South America Advancing Plans for 2020 Competitions
Sudamérica Rugby intends on using the Estadio Charrúa as a hub this year, writes Ignacio Chans for El Observador. The South American regional governing body is advancing plans for 2020 competitions for Men’s, Women’s and u20’s activities. The COVID-19 pandemic means all rugby is presently suspended. The outlook is not …
Read More »World Rugby officially postpones July internationals
In a move widely seen as inevitable, World Rugby has officially postponed the upcoming July test window. All international tours that were due to take place during that month have been cancelled. Though discussions are ongoing about the potential of playing some of those matches at a later date, there …
Read More »Memorable Americas Tries – Agustín Ormaechea vs Romania 2018
In their final tour match before RWC 2019, Uruguay faced Romania at the Ghencea Sports Complex in Bucharest. It was a match of contrasting teams in terms of management. On the one hand, the visitors had developed tremendously since the previous RWC. On the other hand, the home side had …
Read More »MLR 2020 Review – Houston SaberCats
The SaberCats ownership didn’t wait until the end of the 2019 season to make changes. Once they knew they needed to go in a different direction, they put Paul Emerick in charge of the team and the decision paid off with a nice winning streak to close out the campaign. …
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