Frank Hadden has brought back the 13 who did not play against the Kiwi’s for the must win game against Italy in the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St Etienne, on Saturday, 29 September Kick-off: 2000 BST. This brings back the same team who won against Romania on the 18 September. The game features Chris Paterson winning his […]
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Italy head coach Pierre Berbizier has named his team to play Scotland in the IRB Rugby World Cup Pool C match at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Etienne on Saturday 29 September KO 2000 BST. Alessandro Troncon takes the Italy captaincy as Marco Bortolami has failed to recover from injury in time to face Scotland, a big […]
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Portugal head coach Tomaz Morais has announced his team to play Italy in their IRB Rugby World Cup Pool C match at Parc des Princes, Paris on Wednesday. Jose Pinto is reinstated at scrum-half and the side will be looking to reduce the deficit against an Italian side which has not looked to be firing […]
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Italy head coach Pierre Berbizier has named his team to play Portugal in the IRB Rugby World Cup Pool C match at Parc des Princes, Paris on Wednesday. The match sees Alessandro Troncon reach his 100th test appearance for the Azzuri.
Italy Team V Portugal
Backs: David Bortolussi, Pablo Canavosio, Gonzalo Canale, Andrea Masi, Matteo Pratichetti, Roland […]
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Italy did not show their top nation standards as Romania tested them all the way in this pool C clash. Perhaps the second game in a week is taking it out of some sides. Certainly Romania looked fresh and up for it in this tight battle. Italy were 8-0 up at half time and looked […]
The Italy coach Pierre Berbizier has made six changes following his team’s 76-14 defeat to New Zealand on Saturday. The main changes come at fly and scrum half. Ramiro Pez and Paul Griffen replace Roland de Maringy and Alessandro Troncon, who move to the bench.
There are six changes for their match with Romania at the […]
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Romania head coach Daniel Santamans has announced his team to play Italy in their opening World Cup Pool C match at The Velodrome in Marseille on Wednesday. He has named a powerful pack, led by captain and second row Sorin Socol. Romania will look to continue from where they left off in 2004 when they […]
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So normal service was resumed as New Zealand beat Italy by 76-14. The Italians showed New Zealand too much respect in the opening 20 minutes and the Kiwis took full advantage and were out of sight. But as the game wore on the men in blue gained in confidence and took the game to the […]
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Marco Bortolami Italy’s inspirational second row not surprisingly is named as captain for the match in the Velodrome in Marseille on 8 September. Italy head coach Pierre Berbizier announced his team to play New Zealand in the IRB Rugby World Cup 2007 opening Pool C match on Saturday. The big surprise was Roland de Marigny […]
Joe Rokocoko who has scored thirty six tries for New Zeland has not even made the Kiwi’s bench for their first world cup fixture of 2007 against Italy at the Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday.
Doug Howlett & Sitiveni Sivivatu play out wide for New Zealand instead, the other noteworthy selection is Keven Mealam over Anton […]
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