International Rugby News
Rugby Canada Press Release - Twenty-five players have been selected for Canada’s men’s U20 World Junior Trophy qualifier against the USA on Feb. 13 in Austin, Texas.
Thirty-nine players were invited to a week-long training camp at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island that concluded last Friday with a comprehensive 44-7 win over Castaway Wanderers.
The USA v Argentina Americas Rugby Championship game was not a full test match.
Argentina is being billed as an Argentina XV, and certainly most of their players were very young and were not experienced internationals. The rest of the games in the ARC will be full test matches, but no player playing for or against the Argentina entry will get a cap.
The Eagles 7s team was disappointing Sunday in Sydney, losing two games thanks to poor tackling and a loss of composure.
In a result that was at once a pleasant surprise and, in the end, achingly frustrating, the USA tied Argentina 35-35 in the Americas Rugby Championship opening weekend.
As the USA Men’s 15s team gets ready to embark on a new era in the Americas Rugby Championship, it’s worth taking a look at the new faces.
Several of the new caps and players with one or two caps are those who many expected to be there soon enough, but it’s likely that few would have predicted that the starting No. 8 would have been David Tameilau.