Argentina's rugby team former captain Agustin Pichot (L) and head coach Santiago Phelan (R) talk to the team's operations manager Rodrigo Jimenez Salice during a training session in Dunedin, September 5, 2011, ahead of their 2011 Rugby World Cup debut match against England. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci
SYDNEY (Reuters) - World Rugby vice-chairman Agustin Pichot is to look into the sport's international eligibility rules as part of a wide-ranging report into the sustainability of the game in the Pacific island nations.
The former Argentina international came out strongly against the existing rules, which allow a player to represent a country if they have lived there for three years, when he was nominated to his post last month.
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