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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 7s An outstanding day one from Canada at the Wellington 7s saw them producing their best opening-day effort at an HSBC …

Los Jaguares comfortably defeated the Argentina XV, running out 68-14 winners in Buenos Aires. The fixture was the second of two warm-up matches for Argentina’s Super Rugby franchise ahead of their second campaign. Due to it being a pre-season fixture during at the hottest time of the year the fixture …

Brazil is wanting to join Uruguay in having their own Jaguar. Brazilian Rugby (CBRu) CEO Agustín Danza has confirmed that his union is wanting to replicate that of Nicolás Freitas, Uruguay’s back who signed to play Super Rugby for Los Jaguares earlier this week. Freitas is the first non-Argentine player …

Nike has released new Jaguars uniforms for 2017. This year’s home and away strips will be slight variations of those used in the Argentina team’s inaugural Super Rugby campaign. The official home strip is to be black. The alternative uniform will be orange, albeit more of a yellow shade than …

According to L’Equipe Toulon have outbid Toulouse to acquire Facundo Isa. The French sporting outlet reports that Toulouse’s signing of the Argentine No 8 was virtually registered only for Toulon to enter the picture and put in a bigger offer. The move will see the now 23-year-old returning to Toulon, …

Matías Moroni is out for three weeks. The first-choice Jaguares outside center suffered an injury to his right elbow in yesterday’s match against Uruguay. The same fixture saw leading scrum half, Martín Landajo ruled out for three months with a broken leg. Moroni had a solid match against Uruguay. Playing one half …

The UAR has blocked Facundo Isa from Jaguares training. The star no8 was stopped from playing for Argentina’s Super Rugby franchise in yesterday’s warm-up match against Uruguay. Juan Manuel Leguizamón and Leonardo Senatore played a half each against Los Teros. A third no8, Benjamín Macome also played albeit out of …

An experimental Jaguares outfit knocked-over Uruguay today. Argentina’s Super Rugby ran out 61-7 winners after holding a 35-0 half time lead. The warm-up fixture was the first of two for the Argentine Super Rugby side this week. Los Jaguares played with two sides – a different lineup for each half. …

Los Jaguares have suffered a serious blow to their early Super Rugby plans as vice-captain Martín Landajo suffered a broken fibula in a training match on Monday. The star scrumhalf went down just five minutes into a contact scrimmage between the Jaguares players, landing awkwardly under a Leonardo Senatore tackle …

History has been made as an Uruguayan player has officially joins Los Jaguares Super Rugby. Nicolás Freitas of Montevideo club, Carrasco Polo has signed a one year contract to play for the Argentine franchise. Aged 23, Freitas played for Uruguay in November. He started all three matches at center for …