Portugal choose for South America

CONSUR/FIRA-AER tournament

The Portuguese coach, Tomaz Morais, has named his squad for its trip to Chile and Uruguay to take part in a tournament organised CONSUR (the South American rugby body) and FIRA-AER of Europe.

They will be playing for the Copa Intercontinental, a new rugby trophy and competition. Georgia will join in the tournament.

Portugal play Chile at the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago on 30 October and Uruguay in Montevideo the week afterwards.

The captain is experienced Antonio Cunha. Gonçalo Malheiro and David Penalva are the only players playing outside of Portugal.

Portugal go to Chile and Uruguay as the holders of the European Cup of Nations, popularly known as the Six Nations B, after going through last season unbeaten.

After the relegation of Spain, Portugal are now the only country left in that group who were not part of the Eastern bloc. The others are Romania, Georgia, Russia, Czech Republic and newly promoted Ukraine.

The Portuguese squad, by club:

AA Coimbra: Rui Cordeiro

CDUP (Porto University): Joaquim Ferreira, Marcello D"orey, Antonio Sarmento

Direito: Bernardo Mota, João Correia, Frederico Nunes, Gonçalo Uva,Vasco Uva, José Pinto, Martim Tomé, João Diogo Mota, Pedro Carvalho

Benfica: Miguel Moura

Belenenses: Antonio Cunha, Sebastião Cunha, João Uva, Lourenço Andrade, Diogo, David Mateus

CDUL (Lisbon University): Paulo Murinello, Rodrigo Nogueira

Agronomia: Luis Pissarra, Duarte Pinto

Madrid 2012: Gonçalo Malheiro

Tours (France): David Penalva

In a warm-up match Chile beat Cuyo, the Argentinian province based on Mendoza, 37-34 on Sunday. The week before they beat a Santiago XV 36-13.

The Chilean team which played Cuyo: Matías Álvarez, Nicolás Contreras, Errol Jouannet, Paul Marsalli, Patricio Desmond, Claudio Bennett, Cristóbal Westenenk, Aldo Jiménez, Tomás Olave, Cristián Onetto, Cristóbal Berti Benjamín Echeverría, Sebastián Pizarro, Pablo Llorens, Francisco Cruz.
Replacements: Felipe Illanes, Luis Pavez, Cristián Iga, Santiago Zolezzi, Felipe Carvacho, Alejandro Tocigl.

Coaches: Jorge Navesi, Cristián Jory.