brazil is internationally recognized as having a world class soccer team - some individuals theorize that due to the success of soccer, brasil has not traditionally been a huge competitor in rugby.

this is most likely going to change in the near future since the brazilian national team is anticipated to do very well in the 2016 olympics hosted in rio de janeiro - the team has fared strongly in the international community recently and the spotlight will be focused on them to continue this performance.

the 2016 olympics are scheduled to include the modality of rugby sevens - it has been almost 100 years since rugby was included in the olympics.