This exciting Italian team is the product of a successful underage set-up that has been taken over by the two big clubs
Many Italian sides would probably have been well beaten in such scenarios previously, but against France that man Capuozzo lit the blue touchpaper again with that wondrous footwork to stand up Gregory Alldritt and score in the tightest of blindside corridors.
Against England, Capuozzo made the initial break before prop Marco Riccioni scored and even when conceding a fourth maul try and having a second player binned, Italy continued to run from deep. They almost scored a wondrous length-of-the-field try before replacement scrumhalf Alessandro Fusco rewarded their enterprise to briefly make it a two-score game inside the last quarter.
The Italians have won four of their last five against Scotland, three of their last five against Wales and beaten England for the first time. They’ve also come desperately close to a first Under-20 Six Nations win over France, never more so than in round one in Treviso this year when outscoring the French by five tries to three, only to miss five kicks out of six, including a gimme and a conversion to win the game.
Paolo Garbisi and Fusco played in the 2019 Six Nations and in the 2019 Under-20 World Cup, as did Capuozzo. Garbisi was partnered by Stephen Varney in 2020, when current number eight Lorenzo Cannone was also blooded. Cannone, left winger Tommaso Menoncello and Gabrisi’s younger brother Alessandro, a scrumhalf, were in the 2021 team.
Alas, in his campaign to become the next president of the FIR, Marzio Innocenti vowed to appease Benetton and Zebre Parma by dismantling Aboud’s structures and relocating the two centres to the two franchises. He was duly elected last year, receiving 56 per cent of the votes on the first ballot with former Italian player Paolo Vaccari garnering 40 per cent and the outgoing Alfredo Gavazzi 3 per cent.
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