Uruguay

Argentina closes in on Olympic Dream

All eyes were on Argentina in the opening day of the South American section of Olympic Games qualification. The country’s long-lasting dominance within the continental region places great expectation on the silver medalists from the 2009 Rugby Sevens World Cup. With a place in the Olympic Games on the line Argentina took …

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Uruguay Choose for Olympic Qualifiers

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Uruguay is very much dreaming of playing Rugby Sevens at the Olympic Games. Men’s and women’s squads from the eastern South American republic will take part in this weekend’s qualifying tournament at Club C.R.A.I in Santa Fé, Argentina and do so looking to earn the right to compete at the …

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Uruguay squad for Tbilisi Cup

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Having completed recent home internationals against USA, Argentina, and Fiji, Los Teros now travel to Georgia to compete in the World Rugby Tbilisi Cup. The South Americans will play three matches taking on development teams of both Ireland and Italy in addition to a full test match against the host nation. …

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Fiji Warriors too strong for Uruguay

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Fiji’s three-match South American tour came to an end this afternoon with a noteworthy victory over Uruguay in Montevideo. In winning cleanly the Pacific Islanders were able to lay down a marker ahead of the all-important pool match between the senior capped sides of the countries at this year’s Rugby …

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Americas Six Nations vital believes Pichot

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Former Pumas captain Agustín Pichot believes that the Americas Six Nations concept is not only appropriate at this point in time but also necessary. Without efforts being made the hierarchy in which Argentina has a superior test side than the others will remain unchanged. The former scrumhalf believes in helping …

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Americas Six Nations to begin in 2016

Argentina’s representative on the World Rugby Council, Agustín Pichot, has taken a proposal to World Rugby to establish an Americas Six Nations competition featuring South American nations Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay together with the two leading North American nations Canada and the United States. As the driving force behind …

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Los Pumas pushed by improving Uruguay

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Los Pumas defeated Los Teros 36-14 earlier this month in an international match being played for the CONSUR Cup in Montevideo. For both teams the fixture served as Rugby World Cup preparation with it, for Argentina, being the first capped international of the year. Neither team was at full strength …

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Video: Chile’s famous victory over Uruguay

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Chile bested Uruguay for the first time with a memorable 30-15 home victory earlier this month. The result sent shock waves to players and officials involved in Uruguayan rugby as Los Teros are just over four months away from playing in the World Cup in England and Wales. The match …

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Paraguay wants in Americas Six Nations

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The advanced plans for the Americas to have an annual Pan-American Six Nations competition replicating that of Europe are for Brazil to join Argentina, Canada, Chile, Uruguay and the USA. The proposed new tournament is scheduled to be played in February and March which would enable professional players based in …

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