The El Salvador national rugby union team (Spanish: rugby union equipo nacional de El Salvador), nicknamed Los Torogoces, represents El Salvador in rugby union. They had their first international tournament in 2011 in Costa Rica along the other teams from Central America, winning the Silver Cup.
History El Salvador started playing matches against Guatemalan clubs in 2009, losing 3−85 against Xela and winning 37–11 against Santa Rosa. Los Torogoces Aletean Consequently, a victory against Xela Rugby Club 17–0, after clinching the second place in the Guatemalan Championship the "Torogoces" prepare 2 teams to give battle in the upcoming championship, which is in this case to bring the 1st place.
El Salvador's coaches are from France and Argentina. Recently, the Salvadoran Rugby Association (Federacion Salvadorena de Rugby) was recognized as a federation from the local Olympic committee, making it an official recognized sport in El Salvador.
El Salvador played their first international against Costa Rica as part of the 2012 South American Rugby Championship "C". They recorded their first international win, during the 2014 ARC, over Costa Rica. They went on to defeat Panama, which secured their first major tournament victory.
Record Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by a Greece national XV at test level up until 25 August 2018, updated after match with .
Opponent Played Won Lost Drawn % Won 5 1 4 0 % 2 0 2 0 0% 10 0 10 0 0% 1 1 0 0 % 1 1 0 0 % 4 2 2 0 %Total 23 5 18 0 %
Tournaments
+South American Rugby Championship Year Tournament level Win/Loss Position 2012 C 0–3 4/4 2013 C 0–3 4/4 2014 C 2–1 1/4 2015 C 1–2 3/4 2016 C 0–3 4/4 2017 - - - 2018 C 1–1 2/3
Leadership Coaches Alvaro Gorostiza (Esp) Juan Carlos Peréz (Esp)
Board of Directors Chairman: Daniel Ola Vice chair: Nelson Bolaños Treasurer: Diana Diaz Secretary: Moisés Nóchez
Players
Current players El Salvador's rugby union team has a mixture of local young athletes with the reinforcement of experienced foreign players. Torogoces now remains as El Salvador's national team, recognized by CONSUR as a member and will participate in south and Central American tournaments under that name. Rugby in this country has evolved and two clubs have been created: Cuscatlan Rugby Club and Santa Tecla Rugby Club, both still participating in the binational club league with Guatemala. Players from both teams will be selected by trainers and the Federacion Salvadorena de Rugby to be part of Torogoces for international tournaments. In September 2013, Cuscatlán Rugby Club became the first Salvadoran team to win the Bi-National League with Guatemala.
+ BacksPlayerPositionClub Adrien Martinez Almansa Scrum-half Vladimir Salguero Scrum-half Jorge García Herrera (Cap) Fly-half Francisco Deras Fly-half Felipe Flores Fly-half Oscar Rodriguez Fly-half Moisés Nóchez Centre Erick Salas Centre Oscar Díaz Centre Roberto Martínez Centre Jimmy Melara Centre Raul Arevalo Wing Jose Gonzalez Wing Oscar Diaz Wing Samuel Zelaya Wing Gerardo Martinez Wing Mauricio Lazo Fullback Pablo Guth Fullback Gerardo Valenzuela Fullback
+ ForwardsPlayerPositionClub Enrique Angulo Hooker Pablo Maza Hooker Diego Albón Prop Erick Perdomo Prop Herman Arrua Prop Joaquín Fuentes Prop Walter Martinez Prop Fares Canizalez Lock Xavier Luna Lock Napoleón Vargas Lock Rodrigo Ramirez Lock Nelson Bolanos Lock Jorge Cacerés Lock Victor Carcamo Flanker Douglas Lopez Flanker Efraín Hernández Flanker David Alfaro Flanker Eduardo Bonilla Solís Flanker Rafael Ramírez Flanker Angel"Tank"Yanes Flanker Roberto Dubois Flanker Ricardo Avendano Number eight Luis Vilanova Number eight
See also Salvadoran Rugby Association Rugby union in El Salvador
References
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20120218230153/http://torogoces.com/