For the last two-and-a-half days the USA Men's 15s team has been hard at work preparing for Saturday's second World Cup Qualifier game with Chile.
Thursday will be a day off and Friday will be the captain's run, so these last few days has been where much of the work, video analysis, classroom time, and time on the field, has been done.
"The intensity of what we're doing is just as high, but they've not been as long to give us more time to recover," said USA center Bryce Campbell. "But we're been working hard these past two, two-and-a-half days."
Campbell, in his interview with GRR, was all smiles, and he confessed it was partly due to being back home in the USA.
"Summer in Colorado and winter in Chile," he said, giving a nod to the cold, rainy, muddy game the Eagles played against the Condors this past weekend.
USA Holds On By a Point Over Chile in the Rain and Darkness
"The conditions ... it was just a mess," Campbell said of the Estadio Santa Laura field. "But it was also fun. It reminded me of playing rugby when I was a kid, playing on fields that were in all kinds of condition. And you can't overstate how tough it is going into Chile with the crowd and the conditions. But, we did win the game. We could have done better but we're back on home soil and we bring a lot of learnings with us."
