Uruguay win Copa Intercontinental

Chile beat Georgia

Uruguay beat Portugal 30-3 in Montevideo on Saturday to become the first winners of the Copa Intercontinental. In Santiago, Chile beat Georgia 30-24.

In the first round Uruguay beat Georgia and Portugal beat Chile. The final standings are thus, because of match points and bonus points:

1: Uruguay
2: Chile
3. Portugal
4: Georgia

At Estadio Luis Franzini in Montevideo the Teros, bolstered by the inclusion of the Stade Français prop Pablo Lemoine, were too strong up front for the Lobos of Portugal.

In the very first minute of the match Ignacio Conti. Captain Juan Campomar scored the next try and Agustín Pérez del Castillo's conversion made it 10-0 after ten minutes. Nicolás Brignoni and Alfredo Giuria got tries and Pérez del Castillo kicked a penalty to make it 27-0 to Uruguay at half-time.

Savoring virtually dried up in the second half, but for penalties by Pérez del Castillo and then Gonçalo Malheiro for the visitors.

Chilean referee Jaime Vial gave three players yellow cards - Federico Capó of Uruguay, and Joao Uva and David Mateus of Portugal.

Apart from Lemoine for Argentinian-based Guillermo Storace, Emiliano Caffera came into the Uruguayan side for Agustín Pereira and Alfredo Delgado for Ignacio Crosa.

The Uruguayan team: Federico Capó, Juan Andrés Pérez, Pablo Lemoine, Alfredo Giuria, Juan Alzueta, Luis Ara, Nicolás Brignoni, Ignacio Conti, Juan Campomar (captain), Emiliano Caffera, Alfredo Delgado, Hilario Canessa, Joaquín Pastore, Ivo Dugonjic, Agustín Pérez del Castillo.

The scorers:

For Uruguay:
Tries: Conti, Juan Campomar, Brignoni, Giuria
Cons: Pérez del Castillo 2
Pen: Pérez del Castillo 2

For Portugal:
Pen: Malheiro

At the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, a young Chilean side found the going tough against the young Georgian side but they managed four tries to three and a deserved victory.

Georgia had a great start when Alexander Mchedlishvili went over for a try in the first minute and Zaza Valishvili got a second soon afterwards. But then Cristóbal Westenenk got a try which Francisco Cruz converted. Cristián Onetto added a dropped goal before Malkhaz Urjukashvili got the Lelos third try. On the stroke of half-time Cristóbal Berti scored Chile's second try. At half-time Georgia led 24-18.

The scoring in the second half belonged entirely to Chile who added two more tries.

Westenenk spoilt his performance when Uruguayan referee Eduardo Blengio gave him a yellow card as he did Georgian David Zerakashvili.

The scorers:

For Chile:
Tries: Westenenk 2, Berti, Jouannet
Cons: Cruz 2
Pen: Cruz
Drop: Onetto

For Georgia:
Tries: Mchedlishvili, Valishvili, Urjukashvili
Cons: Urjukashvili 3
Pen: Urjukashvili

The teams:

Chile: Felipe Illanes (replaced by Luis Pavez), Nicolás Contreras, Errol Jouannet (replaced by Cristián Iga), Patricio Desmond (replaced by Paul Marsalli), Sebastián García, Claudio Bennett, Cristóbal Westenenk (replaced by Raúl Marín), Aldo Jiménez, Tomás Olave Cristián Onetto, Cristóbal Berti, Benjamín Echeverría (replaced by Santiago Zolezzi), Sebastián Pizarro, Pablo Llorens, Francisco Cruz.

Coaches: Jorge Navesi, Cristián Jory.

Georgia: George Sanikidze (replaced by Irakli Ninidze), Nikoloz Chavchavadze, Akaki Sanadze (replaced by David Zerakashvili), Mamuka Gorgodze, Alexander Mchedlishvili, David Bolghashvili (capitán), Beka Sardanashvili (replaced by Zviad Maisuradze), Zaza Valishvili (replaced by Roin Chikvaidze), Merab Kvirikashvili (replaced by Bidzina Samkharadze), Otar Barkalaia, Giorgi Elizbarashvili, George Shkinin (replaced by Irakli Machkaneli), Lasha Pirpilashvili, Lekso Gugava, Malkhaz Urjukashvili.

Coaches: Malkhaz Tcheishvili, David Chavleishvili.