In addition, the president, who played rugby in his youth, was in charge of kicking off the match between the Proyecto Fénix team (Unit No. 13 of Las Rosas, Uruguay) and Fundación Espartanos ...

(Reuters) - Minnows Uruguay stunned rugby sevens powerhouses Fiji and New Zealand in two astonishing back-to-back upsets on a remarkable opening day of the world sevens series' Perth leg on Friday.

“Yellowjackets” was partly inspired by the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had the Uruguayan amateur rugby team on board ... How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save ...

Would you rather die than turn to cannibalism? That was the dilemma presented to some Uruguayan rugby players in 1972 after a plane crash in a part of the Andes, described in wikipedia.com as a ...

But "Society of the Snow" looks at how a Uruguayan rugby team ... mountain ridge in the Andes and crash-landed on a glacier. The passengers were an amateur rugby team – mostly in their late ...