Mexico

Photo Credit: Carolyn Ritchie In the lead up to Christmas, RugbyLeaguePlanet ran a poll on Twitter to gauge our readers’ thoughts on whether or not the rugby league Americas Championship should be expanded, and...

Growing the game in Latin America Since the 2017 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC) there has been an international push to grow the game of rugby league on a wider scale, and in many...

Date: 15/7/15

A historic Rugby League tour encompassing California and Mexico will give enthusiasts a chance to actively participate in the global spread of the game – and earn an international cap to boot!

Date: 6/5/14

He once burnt animal hearts before a rugby league game on the Day of the Dead to signify his Latino heritage.

Now Latin Heat Rugby League’s first Mexican representative has spoken on Cinco de Mayo of the elation of being selected for next month’s international match against Thailand in Sydney.

Date: 27/9/17

A mad Cowboys fan has taken time out from the build-up to the NRL grand final to help the earthquake-ravaged Mexican Rugby League team get noticed around the world.

The latest IRB world rankings came out on December 10th and show the top four countries, in order, New Zealand, England, Tonga and Australia. The IRL states on its website that world rankings are...

Date: 1/8/14

ON the same week that competitive rugby league begins in Mexico, a new head coach has been appointed to the Australian-based GYG Latin Heat

Argentinian Gabriel Keegan will take the reins of the Heat, a rugby league team representing players with heritage in 24 Latin American nations.

Following the release of the new men’s, women’s and wheelchair world rankings by the IRL, there has been some significant movement for some European nations. In the men’s, Serbia – who played the most Test fixtures in...

By Matthew Brown, Date: 15/7/14

Mexico is another nation which is hoping to start up the “Greatest Game of All”, Rugby League. Mexico is another new nation which has joined the long queue of new nations attempting to bring the 13 Player code to Central America. I got in contact with one of the representatives of Mexico Rugby League (Carlos Munguia) who shared the history, current situation and future ambitions of Mexico Rugby XIII (both domestically and internationally).

By Matthew Brown, Date: 4/9/17

Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at individual nations within Latin America which have Rugby League activity or representation on the international stage. Today we will be looking at one of the participants of the Latin American Rugby League Championship…Mexico