{"id":24867,"date":"2025-07-27T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24867\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:30:09","slug":"chile-advance-in-rugby-world-cup-2027-qualifying-with-win-over-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24867\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Advance in Rugby World Cup 2027 Qualifying with win over Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chile secured a spot in the South American Final. Saturday\u2019s 35-20 win over Brazil in Santiago wrapped up the two match series. Los C\u00f3ndores won game one 35-21<\/a> in S\u00e3o Paulo. When combined with game two, Chile won on aggregate by 70-41. Chile now await the winner of Paraguay vs Uruguay to determine who qualifies for Rugby World Cup 2027 as South America 1.<\/p>\n

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Brazil had a bright start in Santiago. Thiago Oviedo opened the scoring with a penalty. Chile had been unsuccessful with an earlier penalty. Brazil were combative and in the hunt in the opening quarter. however, the home side withstood the pressure and responded on 19 minutes through captain Clemente Saavedra.<\/p>\n

The skipper\u2019s try came from a maul. Inside center Santiago Videla added the conversion for Los C\u00f3ndores. Videla would land two penalties as the first-half continued. Meanwhile, Brazil was unable to add to Oviedo\u2019s early kick. This saw Chile leading 15-3 at half-time.<\/p>\n

When combined with the +14 advantage from game one, Chile were +26 on aggregate at half-time. Brazil needed to respond quickly and they did so with Oviedo opening the second-half scoring with a penalty. Brazil then can alive with Endy Willian Pinheiro scoring a try from a maul and Chile in trouble with Saavedra yellow carded.<\/p>\n

The game was balanced at 15-13 in favor of Chile. Videla gave Chile breathing space with a penalty and Brazil found themselves on the back foot with flanker Matheus Cl\u00e1udio yellow carded. Raimundo Mart\u00ednez made full-use of the one-man advantage; the flanker sliced through to score for Chile.<\/p>\n

Leonel Moreno hit-back to give Brazil a spark of hope. The replacement front-rower crossed from a pick-and-go. Los C\u00f3ndores ended the match on a high, however. Videla landed a penalty and replacement tight head prop Mat\u00edas Dittus scored the game\u2019s final try.<\/p>\n

The 35-20 victory was one of two South American Semi Finals played on Saturday. The other match saw Paraguay hosting Uruguay in Asunci\u00f3n<\/a>. Los Teros did not play their best rugby but were still comfortable winners by a scoreline of 38-0. Game two of the series will be in Montevideo in August.<\/p>\n

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SOUTH AMERICAN RWC QUALIFYING PICTURE<\/p>\n

Chile\u2019s series win over Brazil sees Los C\u00f3ndores confirmed for the South American Final. Uruguay are well-placed to join the Chileans in the final. Brazil await the loser of Uruguay vs Paraguay, on aggregate. Os Tupis will face that team for a spot in repechage alongside Belgium<\/a>, Namibia<\/a> and one other, yet to be confirmed, country.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto: Brasil Rugby<\/p>\n

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Paraguay earned the right to compete in the final round of the South American qualifiers for Rugby World Cup 2027. Los Yacar\u00e9s did so by claiming a record win over Colombia in October. The\u00a049-18<\/a> victory saw Paraguay securing the final spot in the Sudamericano 2025 alongside Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

Colombia were champions of the third tier of South America. The Four Nations competition, which also featured countries from Central America, involved Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela. Peru defeated Costa Rica 44-0<\/a>, and Costa Rica had also lost to Colombia<\/a> which meant a winless tournament and bottom place. Peru fell to Venezuela<\/a> with Colombia beating Venezuela 50-05<\/a> in the final .<\/p>\n

The Sudamericano 2025 champion will qualify for Australia 2027 as South America 1. That team will join Argentina as the second South American competitor confirmed in the tournament.<\/p>\n

The runner-up of the Sudamericano 2025 will face the bottom team from the 2025 Pacific Nations Cup<\/a> in a winner goes to the Rugby World Cup clash. The third placed team from the Sudamericano 2025 will advance to the Final Place Play-Off tournament to determine the 24th competitor at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

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CHILE (35)
TRY \u2013 R Mart\u00ednez (2), C Saavedra, M Dittus
CON \u2013 S Videla (3)
PEN \u2013 S Videla (3)<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL (20)
TRY \u2013 EW Pinheiro; \u00a0L Moreno
CON \u2013 T Oviedo (2)
PEN \u2013 T Oviedo (2)<\/p>\n

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CHILE
1 Salvador Lues, 2 \u2060Diego Escobar, 3 \u2060I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga, 4 \u2060Santiago Pedrero, 5 \u2060Javier Eissmann, 6 \u2060Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 \u2060Raimundo Mart\u00ednez, 8 \u2060Alfonso Escobar, 9 \u2060Lucas Berti, 10 \u2060Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez, 11 \u2060Nicol\u00e1s Saab, 12 Santiago Videla, 13 \u2060Mat\u00edas Garafulic, 14 \u2060Nicol\u00e1s Garafulic, 15 \u2060I\u00f1aki Ayarza<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 \u2060Javier Carrasco, 18 \u2060Mat\u00edas Dittus, 19 \u2060Bruno S\u00e1ez, 20 \u2060Ernesto Tchimino, 21 Juan Cruz Reyes, 22 \u2060Clemente Armstrong, 23 \u2060Luca Strabucchi<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL
1 Caique Segura, 2 Henrique Ferreira, 3 Wilton Rebolo, 4 Matteo Dell\u2019Acqua, 5 H\u00e9lder L\u00facio, 6 Matheus Cl\u00e1udio, 7 Adrio de Melo, 8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda, 9 Lucas Spago, 10 Thiago Oviedo, 11 Robert Ten\u00f3rio, 12 Ant\u00f4nio Zanatta, 13 Carlo Mignot, 14 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 15 Jo\u00e3o do Amaral<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Brendon Alves, 18 Leonel Moreno, 19 Ben Donald, 20 Felipe Rosa, 21 Rodolfo Martins, 22 Felipe Gon\u00e7alves, 23 Lucas Tranquez<\/p>\n

Video: To Follow<\/p>\n

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Referee: Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez (UY)
Assistant Referees: Juan Mart\u00ednez (AR); Esteban Filipanics (AR)
TMO: Francisco Pesce (UY)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chile secured a spot in the South American Final. Saturday\u2019s 35-20 win over Brazil in Santiago wrapped up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-24867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}