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Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR) is a member of the International Rugby Board with a seat on the Executive Council.
It organises the Argentina national rugby union team which is also known as Los Pumas.
Unión Argentina de Rugby - Rivadavia 1227 - C1033AAC - Argentina
Telephone: (54-11) 4383-2211
Fax: (54-11) 4383-2570
History
The first rugby match in Argentina was played in 1873, the game having been brought to South America by the British. It was 26 years later, in 1899, that four clubs in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, got together to form the River Plate Rugby Football Union.
This body, one of the oldest rugby unions in the world, later became known as the Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR), which became a member of the International Rugby Board (IRB) after being invited to the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.
When the rest of the rugby union world went professional in 1995, the UAR decided to keep the game in Argentina amateur. Argentine players who opt to go overseas to play professionally (often in Italy or France) remain eligible for national team selection, and the current national team is heavily (though not exclusively) made up of European-based players.
External links
- Home page of the UAR (http://www.uar.com.ar)
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