El Salvador national rugby union team


The El Salvador national rugby union team, 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.
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. Even though rugby is such a young sport in this country, it is opening way within other popular sports. Recently, the Salvadoran Rugby Association 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

Overall

Tournaments

YearTournament
level		Win/LossPosition
2012C0–34/4
2013C0–34/4
2014C2–11/4
2015C1–23/4
2016C0–34/4
2017---
2018C1–12/3

Leadership

;Coaches
;Board of Directors

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.
PlayerPositionClub
Adrien Martinez AlmansaScrum-half
Vladimir SalgueroScrum-half
Jorge García Herrera Fly-half
Francisco DerasFly-half
Felipe FloresFly-half
Oscar RodriguezFly-half
Moisés NóchezCentre
Erick SalasCentre
Oscar DíazCentre
Roberto MartínezCentre
Jimmy MelaraCentre
Jorge HuezoCentre
Raul ArevaloWing
Jose GonzalezWing
Oscar DiazWing
Samuel ZelayaWing
Gerardo MartinezWing
Mauricio LazoFullback
Pablo GuthFullback
Gerardo ValenzuelaFullback

PlayerPositionClub
Enrique AnguloHooker
Pablo MazaHooker
Diego AlbónProp
Erick PerdomoProp
Herman ArruaProp
Joaquín FuentesProp
Walter MartinezProp
Fares CanizalezLock
Xavier LunaLock
Napoleón VargasLock
Rodrigo RamirezLock
Nelson BolanosLock
Jorge CacerésLock
Victor CarcamoFlanker
Douglas LopezFlanker
Efraín HernándezFlanker
David AlfaroFlanker
Eduardo Bonilla SolísFlanker
Rafael RamírezFlanker
Angel YanesFlanker
CamposFlanker
Ricardo AvendanoNumber eight
Luis VilanovaNumber eight

Women national team

COACH: Chad Hayward

Current players