Main image by Sergio Montenegro/Darkside Studio HE SCORED a scampering try against players twice his size last week – and...
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Agrimix planta sementes para o futuro do Rugby XIII no BrasilOctober 22, 2020READ MORE -
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Cucarachas win feisty Latino Origin
THREE tries in the final 14 minutes saw New South Wales storm home to a 32-8 win against Queensland in a feisty inaugural Latino Origin event at Davies Park in Brisbane. In a match where two players were sin-binned and referee Juan Perez defused a handful of potentially explosive moments, fans and players from both...
Nano is the Mouse That Roared
Main image by Sergio Montenegro/Darkside Studio HE SCORED a scampering try against players twice his size last week – and there’ll be few players cheered as loudly as 55kg Gabriel Papa when he plays for Latin America in this weekend’s Harmony Nines. Freshly graduated from Patrician Brothers’ College, Fairfield, the diminutive 17-year-old was a standout...
Peru goes tit-for-tat, toe-to-toe with Uruguay in debut league win
THE LEAD changed hands five times and the teams exchanged hands in a fiery brawl as Peru beat Uruguay 34-30 in its 13-a-side international rugby league debut. After two players were sent off and three were sin-binned following a melee in the 52nd minute, Peru sealed the game with a hat-trick to veteran hooker Jye...
‘Rugby League diplomacy’: 100 balls destined for Brasil
One hundred brand new rugby league balls are on their way to Brasil to assist the country’s preparation for a debut appearance at the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The first-ever bulk purchase of balls with the official Brasil Rugby League logo has been made possible by migrant Marina Abreu Silva, whose company Tagarela Intercãmbios...
From orphanage to captain of his country
A boy who was given up for adoption in Bogota 38 years ago has told of his immense pride at being named to captain his country in a historic Tri Nations tournament in Brasil. Alex Eastman is not a name you would expect for the leader of Colombia’s national rugby league side. That’s because his...
Big Boppers Carry the Shield
THERE are sponsors that are part of a team. Then there are teams that are part of their sponsors’ team. When the developing nations of Latin America line up for next weekend’s Rugby League Revolucion event at Liverpool All Saints on February 4, there will be at least five enforcers with one thing in common....
GYG Latino Nines Preview
DESPITE the absence of eligible NRL talents Marcelo Montoya and Daniel Vasquez, Chile will still start favourite at the 2019 GYG Latino Rugby League 9s next Saturday. Continuing to prove that Latinos are not solely restricted to football of the roundball variety, six South and Central American nations will go head-to-head on Saturday, September 7...
Big boost from Brisbane City Council on Origin eve
BRISBANE City Council has thrown its weight behind Queensland’s burgeoning Latin American community, committing as Silver Sponsor to Saturday’s GYG Latino Origin rugby league event at West End. The sponsorship is one of the most significant exhibitions of support to date for the volunteer-run Latin American Rugby League (also known as Latin Heat), which first...
Inside Report on Latin American Rugby League Championship
By Andrew Charles, match official and NSW Latino coach. I am a Rugby League journeyman. Not by design, it has just happened that way. Rugby League has taken me to some exotic places such as Fiji, Thailand, Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong – oh and New Zealand of course. So, when an opportunity arose...
Seb cheats death, leads Colombia to league destiny
A 30-year-old who has cheated death since Easter and may still face deportation is a key identity in the remarkable story of Colombia’s ascendancy to International Rugby League observer status. Sebastian Maya Jimenez has experienced a year unlike no other, but amidst an extreme pressure cooker situation in 2019 has helped Colombia become the latest...
Rugby League World Cup results a ‘perfect storm’ for Latin American nations
RESULTS from the 2017 Rugby League World Cup have created a ‘perfect storm’ for a team from Latin America to make an unprecedented entry into the 2021 version of the tournament. As a historic first Latin American Rugby League Championships gets set to begin in Chile this Friday, November 17, the door to the game’s...
Former Bronco, Crusher is new Latin Heat Rugby League president
Former London Broncos and South Queensland Crushers player Nigel Soden has been elected the new Latin Heat Rugby League president, as the organisation puts particular focus on encouraging growth in female and junior participation. Soden, raised in Blackwater and educated at famed rugby league school St Brendan’s Yeppoon, becomes the fourth president of the not-for-profit...
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