BRAZILIAN RUGBY PLAYERS WANTED

São Paulo (SP) – The Brazilian Rugby Union (“Confederação Brasileira de Rugby” or “CBRu”) is working on the long-term development and high performance program for its men’s and women’s national teams (XVs and 7s). With the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 hosting Rugby 7s for the first time, Brazil Rugby is aiming to … Read more

Brooklyn Women’s Rugby is recruiting for the fall

Brooklyn Women’s Rugby is a hard-hitting social club geared towards every skill level. Our club is comprised an array of personalities from all different backgrounds — enthusiastic on working together as an ensamble. We made amazing strides in the past few year, and have watched our club grow with numbers and fans. Now that we … Read more

Rugby Job Opportunities in Brazil

The “Oportunidades” section in our website was developed by the Confederação Brasileira de Rugby (CBRu) in order to encourage and strengthen the exceeding growth of rugby across the Country. In this section, information about jobs and opportunities in Brazilian rugby will be made available. This service also seeks to connect foreigners who are interested in … Read more

Women Referees in Rio de Janeiro

For the first time the State of Rio de Janeiro will have an arbitration group entirely feminine in a rugby match. The referees Cristiana Futuro, Esther Fonseca and Beatriz Magalhaes were in charge of the men’s game Rio Rugby “B” x Resende on May 19 this year. According to Henrique Platais, referee from Rio de … Read more

South American Championship Rugby Sevens 2012

For the first time, the Brazilian Confederation of Rugby (CBRu) held in Rio de Janeiro the main Rugby Sevens tournament in the South America. Between days  March 10th-11th, the stadium of the Gavia, the Club Regatas of Flamengo, Rio will receive the Sevens – South American Championship Rugby Sevens.  The competition, which has direct supervision of … Read more

Brazil Rugby – Looking Towards the 2016 Olympics

Hello everyone! My name is Karlla, I was recently included in the group of contributors of this blog. I’m here to talk about women’s rugby in the country that will host the Olympic Games of 2016: my country – Brazil! I was wondering how to start my activities, so I thought I’d start at the beginning, of how people approach me in tournaments, or when they find out I play rugby and I’m from Brazil. I understand, is not every day that is a Brazilian on a rugby field in New York. People always ask me these questions: … Read more