Italy Name Rugby World Cup Squad

Italy’s Rugby World Cup 2015 squad:

Forwards: Matias Aguero, Martin Castrogiovanni, Dario Chistolini, Lorenzo Cittadini, Michele Rizzo, Loenardo Ghiraldini, Andrea Manici, Valerio Bernabo, Josh Furno, Marco Fuser, Quintin Geldenhuys, Mauro Bergamasco, Francesco Minto, Sergio Parisse (captain), Samuela Vunisa, Alessandro Zanni,

Backs: Edoardo Gori, Guglielmo Palazzani, Marcello Violi, Tommaso Allan, Carlo Canna, Tommaso Benvenuti, Michele Campagnaro, Angelo Esposito, Gonzalo Garcia, Andrea Masi, Luke McLean, Luca Morisi, Leonardo Sarto, Giovanbattista Venditti.

Italy head coach Jacques Brunel has named an experienced squad that he hopes will deliver a first-ever quarter-final place for the Azzurri at a Rugby World Cup.

Sergio Parisse captains a group of players who boast well more than 1,000 caps between them, at an average of 36 per player, and is split 17/14 between forwards and backs.

Parisse and fellow cap centurion and veteran prop Martin Castrogiovanni join 92-cap centre Andrea Masi in competing at a fourth Rugby World Cup, while flanker Mauro Bergamasco, another player whose caps total runs into three figures, is set to go one better and match Brian Lima’s record feat of appearing in five tournaments.

Monday’s squad announcement represents the final act of a two-month process which involved 50 players selected for the preliminary squad, 40 of them assembling mid-June in Villabassa for the season’s first training camp… full story on >>>> http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/86613