Chile

DESPITE the absence of eligible NRL talents Marcelo Montoya and Daniel Vasquez, Chile will still start favourite at the 2019 GYG Latino Rugby League 9s next Saturday.

Date: 10/11/18

Futbol a 13 Chile director, Ronald Soto Badilla, has revealed that he risked hunger to spread the sport, the South American nation the first to be included in World Cup qualifiers next week.

Date: 26/10/18

Chile is hoping make rugby league history as they prepare for the 2018 Americas Championship, which will also act as a qualifier for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup in England.

Date: 6/3/18

A sideline conversion from birthday boy Nick Doberer provided a dramatic end to the first Latino Origin game of 2018, as Queensland snuck home 28-26 at Corrimal, near Wollongong.

Date: 20/11/17

EMOTIONS ran high as Chile affirmed its top standing in the Latin American region in a drama-charged 32-12 final of the Primer Rugby League Campeonato LatinoAmericano.

Date: 12/10/17

WHEN Latin America lost its first full rugby league game 114-0 to the Philippines, there was a 16-year-old kid sitting on the sideline who dearly wished he could help out.

Date: 29/9/17

NRL Grand Final entertainer Macklemore may be currently whipping up controversy, but he’ll have to go hard to beat Carlos The Jackal when it comes to sending a rugby league crowd into a frenzy this weekend.

Date: 22/9/17 (Photo Credit Sergio Montenegro)

A 130kg prop who can play winger; a former nursing student turned chiropractic science hopeful; a rugby league international who didn’t play contact sport until he was 21.

Date: 29/6/17

CAN YOU MATCH US?

Through the hard work of our Australian-based volunteers and sponsors, Latin Heat has already raised more than $10,000 in donations to the operating costs of the first full 13-a-side Latin American Rugby League Championships in Chile in November.

Date: 16/3/17

IN THE same week that Marcelo Montoya becomes the first NRL player of Chilean descent, Latin American Rugby League has another big announcement to make.