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Brazil’s impressive home victory over Colombia on Saturday sees the Tupis rising in the World and Americas Rankings. The Portuguese speaking country’s 44-0 win over Colombia sees Brazil rising from 9th to 7th in the Americas, to trade places with Colombia, and from 45th to 42nd in the world. It …

Following a 2-0 series loss against Germany Brazil’s World Ranking has suffered with the world’s fifth largest country falling to 45th in the world. The new ranking sees Brazil falling behind both Trinidad & Tobago and Colombia to be 9th in the Americas. Prior to facing Germany Brazil was already ranked …

Representatives from 10 national unions and federations, all members of Sudamérica Rugby, took part in the successful Leading Rugby workshop in the Peru capital of Lima over three busy days of meetings and presentations. Leading Rugby is a World Rugby development programme to inspire the leaders of unions to grow …

Completing the South American B Championship undefeated has seen Colombia rise to 44th place in the official World Rugby World Rankings. This sees Los Tucanes ranked just five places below Brazil, their opponents in the South American A play-off in which the winner will play in the 2016 South American …

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 Pro Rugby Player Potential Last Monday’s announcement that professional rugby is coming to the USA in April 2016 was music to …

While the test teams from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela took to the field this week in Lima World Rugby authorities held a workshop featuring ten member nations of Sudamérica Rugby, the regional body responsible for rugby in South and Central America. “Rugby Americas will be able to help both regions …

Los Tucanes are the 2015 South American B Rugby Champions. The Colombian men’s national team went undefeated throughout the Four Nations tournament to complete a third consecutive tournament victory and set up a repechage play-off against Brazil, the bottom placed side from the 2015 South American A Championship. With Colombia having completed …

The governing body of rugby, World Rugby has unveiled an altered qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2019 which will be held in Japan. Revealed are where the 8 qualifying countries will come from with some continental regions having advantages over others. The 8 qualifying teams will join the 12 …

Peru will take-on north-eastern neighbors Colombia in the South American B Championship Final on Saturday after Los Tumis were too strong for Ecuador this evening in Lima.  A 35-0 win saw over Ecuador saw Peru completing back-to-back wins in the South American B Championship to send the bottom seeded Ecuador into …

Following an impressive win today in Lima, Peru Colombia are on the verge of retaining the South American B Championship title. Los Tucanes’ 33-5 win over Venezuela today sees Colombia having two wins from as many matches while Venezuela remains winless. Tournament hosts Peru take-on Ecuador in today’s second match. The …