So, today Italy U18 men defeated all the Celtic nations, one after the other.
🇮🇹 31-12 🏴
🇮🇹 29-5 ☘️
🇮🇹 15-5 🏴
U18, summer festival, 35' matches, but still cool.
#italrugby
Absolute scenes from the Italian rugby domestic championship 🔥
Rovigo fans after the victory in the “derby d’Italia” vs Petrarca Padova.
📆 24/03/2024
🏟️ Stadio Mario Battaglini
📌 Rovigo
🎥
@RugbyRovigoDelt
Ange Capuozzo on MidOl:
1) "For some selections, some academies, the entry criteria were primarily physical, mine clearly closed doors for me. Even to stay in Grenoble around 15, 16 yo, I had my wrist x-rayed to prove that I was still going to grow...
🎙️ Kieran Crowley 🇮🇹
"For players that not declared to be available for Italy for the Six Nations, I was very clear that they would not being considered for the World Cup. They needed to show their hand earlier and be part of the group"
Huge news for Italian Qualified players.
Happy birthday to Tommaso Allan & Paolo Garbisi!
For a country that struggled producing quality flyhalves, having 2 who were born on the same day is quite hilarious 🤣
#italrugby
#italiansabroad
All eyes are currently on Louis Lynagh, however, Tommaso Allan taking a step back from international rugby is a massive loss for Italy.
He was the most experienced player in the squad by far - 81 caps vs Negri's 53 and Ruzza's 51 - and part of the leadership group.
Garbisi 👇
1/2
Yesterday, the FIR reached an agreement with Zebre Parma and Benetton Rugby to limit the number of non-Italian Qualified Players (NIQP) in the teamsheets.
From now on, the two URC franchises will line up max 7 NIQP in the 23. Let's take a look at the current situation:
#italrugby
3) In rugby, everyone is needed: the tall, the short, the fat, the thin, the intelligent, and even the less intelligent. It is a wealth that our sport must absolutely preserve."
#rugby
#italrugby
#NZLvITA
ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ
The first ever Italian try against a New Zealand side, scored by Nello Francescato.
XV del Presidente 🆚 All Blacks (FT 17-9)
🗓️ 22/10/1977
🏟️ Stadio Appiani, Padua
From cries of desperation to cries of joy.
One kick to change it all.
God, being an Italian rugby fan really isn't good for your heart.
#italrugby
#ITAvAUS
🚨 🇮🇹 🚨
Il Sei Nazioni ha deciso di potenziare la comunicazione in italiano, coinvolgendomi nella gestione dei social italiani del torneo:
Twitter ->
@SeiNazioniRugby
Instagram ->
Seguite e condividete, facciamo sentire la voce dell'Italia nel 6N! 💪
This "🇿🇦 in, 🇮🇹 out the 6N" thing may be a joke or not, however I can see some immediate negative impact on
#italrugby
:
- no high profile 🇮🇹 qualified player would now take the risk of accepting 🇮🇹's call
- current or potential sponsors may reconsider their deals
#SixNations
✌️ things of this Italy U20 side that impressed me:
- very low number of handling errors in terrible conditions
- mental resilience after the 2 🇿🇦 tries in the 2nd half
They may be less talented compared to sides from the recent past, but these guys have something special.
It went a bit under the radar, but Martin Page-Relo's long range kicking has been crucial in the last 3 matches of Italy's Six Nations campaign.
#italiansabroad
🎙️ Louis Lynagh 🇮🇹
Very insightful interview by the Italian Trade Agency.
"I was born there, and all I could speak was Italian.
I came over to England and then asked my mum to speak English to me, because I was going to school in England and I couldn't speak any English"
Pt.1
A bit surprised that Paolo Garbisi's interview to
@lequipe
on his move from Montpellier to Toulon hasn't been shared by any relevant rugby media.
He says he had no say in the decision, despite having a contract until 2025, and that Montpellier management basically ghosted him.👇
🚨 Transfer rumors: Louis Lynagh to Benetton 🚨
This could be a perfect match.
Benetton need IQ wings, and Scalabrin/Douglas are too green.
Lynagh could return to his hometown and compete for an Italy jersey.
#italiansabroad
Manfredi Albanese's decision to leave professional rugby is a hard blow not only for Benetton, but also for Italy.
Scrumhalf is a position in which we always struggled to develop decent players, and he potentially was one.
#italrugby
𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍 🇫🇷
Ange Capuozzo wins the
#Top14
in his first season in the French top flight. He played 9 games, 540', scoring 4 tries, before ending the season early due to an injury he picked up during the
#GuinnessSeiNazioni
Congratulazioni!
#italiansabroad
Italy Select XV squad for the game against
@LeicesterTigers
Young & inexperienced, 4 players from the domestic championship, Benetton & Zebre fringe players.
#italrugby
#LEIvITA
With both Allan & Padovani missing, Paolo Garbisi is now the most experienced back in the squad (33 caps) and all the kicking & leadership duties will likely fall on him. Crazy to think he's still 23.
This Italy squad is still very unbalanced compared with the other sides.
2/2
Yesterday, Benetton scored one of their best counter attack tries ever against Ulster.
The elusiveness of Albornoz, the perfect timing of support, the recycling speed, the vision and kicking skills of Brex, Ratave's positioning, just perfect.
#URC
#BENvULS
🚨 Transfer news 🚨
Italy centre Luca Morisi follows his former London Irish teammate Danilo Fischetti and joins
@ZebreParma
!
A huge and very much needed boost in experience for Zebre, and another couple of seasons at the top level for the Milan-born player.
#italiansabroad
2) So what amuses me at the moment is that what has always been my weakness in youth suddenly became my strength.
It may sound a bit pretentious to say that, but I think my case is good publicity.
FIR president Innocenti's answer regarding Monty Ioane:
"He hasn't played in this 6N with FIR consensus because Melbourne Rebels contract offer was subject to his availability for the start of the Super Rugby season"
This seems to be against World Rugby regulations...
In a couple of days, 2 Italians Abroad officially signed for Italian clubs:
Jake Polledri 🍒 -> 🦓
Edoardo Iachizzi 🦊 -> 🦁
Soon they may be joined by at least another player...
#italiansabroad
Winning is the only way to get rugby on Italy national news agencies.
Benetton getting to the
@ChallengeCup_
semi-finals is massive for this reason too.
#italrugby
📰 Paolo Garbisi to
@lequipe
, on his move from Montpellier to Toulon 🧵
"The club never asked me directly to leave, but they never told me to stay either. It was a bit strange for me. When I heard that Toulon were interested, no one called me to ask me: "What do you want to do?"
"Silly"
Evan Roos could've easily broken Manuel Zuliani's neck here. This is a slo-mo, real time is even more terrifying.
Hollie Davidson awarding just a yellow is simply disgraceful,
@URCOfficial
should do an official statement on this.
#STOvBEN
#URC
Everyone focusing on Scotland offsides, but I still can't get over the fact that there is a clear and obvious contact with the eye area before Italy knock on, straight from the first replay shown on TV.
TMO should've intervened.
#SCOvITA
#GuinnessSixNations
#rugby
First clubs of all the 77 players included in
#Italrugby
, Italy A & Emerging Italy squads for this summer, grouped by province and by region.
Almost half of them started playing
#rugby
in Veneto.
Only 28 out of the 107 provinces are represented.
Just 2 🇮🇹🇦🇷.
🇮🇹 Italy injury update 🏥
Fischetti - 3 costal cartilages fractured (out for 🇫🇷)
Lamb - leg injury (tbc for 🇫🇷)
Nicotera - the most concerning one: he's now following the HIA protocol, but his concussion wasn't picked up during the game. That's bad. Really bad.
#RWC2023
Selezione Italiana XV scored a belter of a try yesterday against Leicester Tigers!
3/4 of the players involved have yet to play at high level:
Gesi (Zebre) -> Montemauri (Rovigo) -> Fusco (Annonay) -> Bertaccini (Valorugby Emilia)
#italrugby
#italiansabroad
#LEIvITA
Benetton are very very lucky that this guy is from Treviso.
Heard some rumours of French clubs keeping a close eye on him, but he's a hometown boy, so maybe it'll be more difficult to convince him to move abroad.
🚨Breaking News🚨
RAI, Italy public broadcaster, bought the rights for RWC2023!
It was announced during the press conference for
#RWC2021
, which will be broadcasted by RAI too.
#italrugby
#RWC2023
Half an hour later. Still in the kitchen throwing in the air my f*cking 18 wooden spoons. The real hell's kitchen.
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
#italrugby
#WALvITA
#GuinnessSixNations
Michael Lynagh & John Kirwan seems to enjoy coming back to Italy. Both played for Benetton and are married to women from Treviso.
Should be a good advert for foreign players 😎
#italrugby
#italiansabroad
Zebre Rugby, The Search for Identity.
Ch.1 - The federal franchise of the North-West
Ch.2 - Seeking a connection with Parma
Ch.3 - Multicolor: a tale of inclusion
Ch.4 - Parma, home sweet home (?)
25 men's Six Nations
366 men's Six Nations matches
Andrea Piardi will finally break the glass ceiling on the 7th game of the 2024 Guinness Six Nations.
#italrugby
It seems that Benetton is in danger of losing both their Italy capped hookers to French clubs 🇫🇷
As already said, Stade Français are interested in signing Giacomo Nicotera. In addition, Toulon are looking at Gianmarco Lucchesi 👀
Benetton are keen to retain them, but... (1/2)
🇮🇹 20yo former Italy u20 backrow David Odiase made his senior debut in tonight's Challenge Cup match between the Dragons and Oyonnax.
He moved to France last season, playing in the Espoirs championship.
#italiansabroad
Well, Italy needed depth at scrumhalf and it seems they found it 👀
The new entry is Martin Page-Relo (Stade Toulousain), born in L'Isle-Jourdain, near Toulouse 🇫🇷
FIR tell us that his grandparents from his mother's side were born in Italy.
#italiansabroad
#italrugby
🚨 Paolo Garbisi -> Toulon?
The Italy flyhalf could leave Montpellier with immediate effect to join Sergio Parisse & Andrea Masi in Toulon.
His current contract ends in 2025, but his club seems to prefer Louis Carbonel and Toulon has to replace Dan Biggar.
Source:
@RugbyramaFR
There are rumors that Monty Ioane is quitting Benetton to stay with his family in Australia, while remaining available for selection for Italy.
He extended his contract with the club until 2024 just some months ago...
#italrugby
Important milestone for Paolo Garbisi at Montpellier.
Sometimes it's easy to forget how young these players are, reaching 50 caps for a French Top14 club isn't that easy at 23 yo, especially for a flyhalf.
#italiansabroad
Answering a specific question, Crowley said that Sergio Parisse has always been available, so he could be in contention for a spot in the Italy squad for the Rugby World Cup
TEAM NEWS 🗞️
Your
#Baabaas
team to face
#WorldXV
in the
@KillikandCo
🏆
No surprise who we’ve got as skipper - Alun Wyn Jones 🏴
And hey, while we’re here let’s have a peruse of the World XV side too 👌
Those head-to-heads 🤩
#KillikCup
1⃣2⃣ - the months that passed between the last Top14 game played by Federico Mori and his debut for
@avironrugbypro
on Saturday.
Welcome back, Chico!
#italiansabroad
Two good things in
#ROMvITA
:
1. Tribute to Massimo Cuttitta (thanks
@RugbyRomania
)
2. The tight-five 80 metres try (thanks Nemer, Lucchesi & Cannone)
#italrugby
Maybe Sergio Parisse isn't the number 8 Crowley likes, a fetcher & powerful like Cannone Jr & Halafihi, but he certainly knows how to score tries and how to make other players score, among other things.
#GLAvRCT
#ChallengeCupRugby
Former Italy U20 captain Ross Vintcent starting at n8 in the 2nd half for Exeter Chiefs, in their first friendly of the season.
Last year he was one of the standout players at
@ExeterUniRFC
before picking up an anckle injury.
#italiansabroad
Lucrezia Iavarone has signed up for Leicester Tigers Women just 4 years after starting playing rugby.
A truly remarkable story, by
@LeicesterTimes
#italiansabroad
Apparently, a new international rugby tournament is under way, featuring
🇿🇦 Cheetahs, Pumas, Griquas
🇪🇸 Diables Barcelona
🇷🇴 Baia Mare
+ other teams from 🇪🇸🇳🇦🇰🇪🇿🇼🇩🇪🇺🇸 and 🇮🇹
#Italrugby
Summer 2022 Squad: the Geography Lesson.
Players
- mainly come from Veneto & Rome
- only 2 are from Lombardy & zero from Emilia, despite the large player base
- just 2 are qualified via residency, both NZs
- Mogliano🤯
#rugby
EXCL: England contender Paolo Odogwu could switch allegiance to ITALY for next year's World Cup after being made redundant by Wasps, as several European clubs interested in the back |
@Nik_Simon88
Allan took a full force hit to the head.
Hope it is nothing too serious and all protocols are followed to the letter, it looks like he'll need a long rest.
I don't care if Italy start the Six Nations without a flyhalf, players' health comes first.
Sostegno, sempre
@Allan_Tommy
No wrap.
Direct contact to the head.
Allan seriously injured.
Tuilagi escapes punishment.
I really fail to understand how this is deemed a “rugby collision.” 🤷🏻♂️
Now that his move to
@BenettonRugby
has been announced, here's a nice background story on Matt Gallagher's Italian roots.
In a video, his grandfather explains how he worked as a knife grinder in the UK for 50+ years, before returning to his hometown in the Italian Alps.
Link 👇
Just noticed that in the
@Federugby
🇮🇹 media guide someone decided to include the correct pronounciation of Italy players' names for English-speaking people 😂
❌ Ange Capuozzo
✅ Anj Kap-oo-otz-oh
#RWC2023
#ita
#italrugby
A minute's silence will be held before Italy vs Romania in honour of the great Alex Penciu, who passed away this week.
He scored 8 points in Romania's first ever win vs France in 1960 (11-5) and lived in Italy for almost 50 years.
Been watching Ange Capuozzo darting through defenses for quite a long time now. First at the
#JRWC2019
in Argentina, then in the ProD2 with Grenoble, now with Toulouse & Italy. He's always been special, just glad he made it to the top level making more people cry of joy.
Happy
Making their mark in 2022 🌟
Congratulations to New Zealand's
@RubyTui
and Italy's
@Capuozzoange
— your 15s Breakthrough Players of the Year in partnership with Tudor
#WorldRugbyAwards