The USA U18s are settling in South America as they prepare for two matches against Uruguay and a match against Buenos Aires Academy U18s.
The players arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 4th of July and hit the pitch to work out the travel stiffness before going through the obligatory team meetings.
Day Two was the first main training with a two sessions focusing on attack. In the morning the players broke up into positional units with the forwards nailing down their lineout and the backs working on attack shape and first-phase attack of scrums.
In the afternoon, in the rain, they started to put the attack together as a team, adding in exits and transition play.
Day 3 included some travel as the team took the ferry across the Rio de la Plata to Montevideo, Uruguay. It's a two-and-a-half-hour trip and gave the team a nice view of the area.
In Montevideo they settled into a new hotel and then had time for a defensive session.
The forwards worked on the scrum and the backs worked on set piece and defense around the edges. They added in transition defense.
So that moved into Tuesday, July 7, which is Day 4.
This was a double-sessions day, with a morning live scrimmage as the team started to put in more layers of attack.
