Uruguay

Preparation is well underway for the South American Championship. This year’s edition doubles as qualification for Japan 2019. Training at the Estadio Charrúa’s High Performance Center are a 34-man Uruguay Roster. The same athletes are to compete in the upcoming RWC Qualifiers against Brazil, Chile and Paraguay. The RWC qualifiers …

Uruguay have named their Teros 7s squad to travel to Hong Kong to take part in the core series qualifier bracket. Coached by World Cup winger Francisco Bulanti, the team has been boosted by a a number of players capped at senior XVs level including five members of 2017 Americas …

Mario Lamé has been named as the new Uruguay u20’s Head Coach with immediate effect. The national u20 side will have home advantage in the Junior World Rugby Trophy 2017 and are looking to the wise head of Lamé to have a solid campaign. Lamé is vastly experienced. He played for …

The Top 14 is back to a full complement this weekend as the strike caused by the merger-that-wasn’t is now over. Thankfully both Racing 92 and Stade Français will commit to their fixtures as scheduled. With five weeks still to go there is still time for clubs to move a …

With just six weeks left in the Pro D2 regular season the race for promotion is approaching fever pitch. This weekend’s offerings have the bout schedule in reverse order, with the main event taking place on Thursday evening as the top two teams in the division went to battle at …

Dates for the 2017 South American A Championship have been announced. This year’s edition is to see Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay battling it out in a competition which doubles as Rugby World Cup 2019 qualification. The winner of the Four Nation competition is to advance to play either Canada …

Uruguayan Clubs Old Boys and Carrasco won their round 2 Matches in Argentina. On Saturday Uruguayan clubs competed in Argentina’s national club competition. Montevideo sides Old Boys and Old Christians won their respective matches in the Nacional de Clubes B while Carrasco Polo faced Trébol de Paysandú (Uruguay) in a …

With the Americas Rugby Championship done for another year it’s back to domestic rugby we look for this week’s selection. The Aviva Premiership and Guinness Pro 12 had the week off but we had two divisions of French club rugby, the British & Irish Cup, the Anglo-Welsh Cup, and of …

After five weeks of battle between some of the best and brightest talents in the Americas Rugby Championship, we’ve come to the moment of truth. Through snow and wind and rain, glory and ruin, madness and majesty. We’ve taken notes and studied the tapes. We restricted consideration to players who …

The draw for the world’s most prestigious seven-a-side rugby tournament was made on Monday evening. A total of 40 teams international teams will take part in the Hong Kong Sevens over three days from April 7-9 across three separate divisions. The HSBC Sevens Series event will be the highlight but …