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This article was published on 1 October 2014 at 16:20.
In a sport like rugby, which is (rightly) the strength of its traditions, Italy has one to brag about: a league that celebrates 85 years, which in Anglo-Saxon countries, which are also the cradle of pallaovale, do not even dream of.
Times change, the best Italian playing in the Guinness Book Pro 12 Benetton Treviso and the Zebras (based in Parma) or are were hired by foreign clubs (this year’s wave of immigration, dormant for some time, has been particularly intense). But the league resists, in the formula of Excellence to 10 teams with group return and play-off final in the top four, and this weekend presents his first day. Field Saturday L’Aquila-Cammi Calvisano (ie the glorious company of Abruzzo, newly promoted, and the champions of Italy), Golden Flame Rome-Estra I Cavalieri Prato, Viadana-Lazio. And on Sunday back to the good initiative of the Day Rugby Venetian with two derby (Marchiol Mogliano-Lafert San Dona and Femi CZ Rovigo-Petrarca Padona) played in rapid succession on the ground of Battaglini in Rovigo, one of the historical landmarks of the national movement.
The presentation took place today in Milan, Gianluca Barca – editor of AllRugby and speaker of the meeting – noted some positive signs emerging from the eve of the championship and looking at the rose of the 10 club it turns out that at least half of the athletes came from 1992 onwards and that foreigners in all respects (ie, those not “eligible” for the National) are around a dozen, compared with much higher numbers that were recorded in the past. It will also be an effect of the crisis, which certainly can not not leave a mark in the coffers of the club and the federation, but in this case should lead to a double benefit to clear the fields by too many mediocre rugby union Oltrefrontiera of leaving space and chances for our young people. And it’s “virtuoso” by the fact that twenty boys have passed by the excellence of the two franchises Treviso and Parma. A belt that seems to work and that could throw some of the “promoted” even to the national team.
Having said that the favorite should still be the finalists of last year (Calvisano and Rovigo, which in 2013-2014 has lost both the championship final is that the Trophy of Excellence, a sort of Italian Cup, won by the Flames gold), we must add that the whole thing fits in a time of happiness with regard to the results obtained in the international arena. If the national team – waiting by the three test match interior of July (8 in Ascoli with Samoa, 15 in Genoa with Argentina, 22 in Padova with South Africa) – has lost 13 of the last 14 meetings, and the Zebras Benetton, on paper weakened by a significant number of departures abroad, they began to climb the Pro 12 and are located respectively on the penultimate and last place. The total budget for the first four days is seven sconifitte a victory (of Zebras, victorious Saturday to Parma 13-6 against Ulster).
Over the last two weekends of October, then , will begin the European Cups, which have been reformed under the aegis dell’Epcr (European professional club rugby). In the Champions Cup, with 20 teams instead of 24, is the only survivor of Benetton, which will be located in the section of Racing Paris, the English Northampton Ospreys and Wales. In Challenge Cup there are zebras (which will face two French, Brive and Oyonnax, and an English, Gloucester), while the Femi Rovigo Cz, which is stated in two valiant challenges with the selection of the Georgian Tbilisi Caucasians, has won the right to participate in the competition and now will take on Cardiff, Grenoble and London Irish. Realistically, one can not exclude the passage to the quarterfinals of either Italian, but you can hope for some isolated victory of Rovigo, and especially of the zebras. Meanwhile, Calvisano, Viadana Mogliano and take part in a third continental competition, organized by European Rugby (the former Fira), which will also see the presence of Caucasians Georgians and then formation of a Russian, a German, a Portuguese and a Dutch . As explained by the Federal President Alfredo Gavazzi, there will be two groups of four with lots of one-way, which will be followed, in the semifinals, the challenges of cross between the first and the second. The two finalists then will access to a further stage where you play the chances of making the Challenge Cup in the season 2015/2016.
It is the face of television. With DMax that, in addition to the Six Nations, also will broadcast the matches of the national team in November, the channel Nuvolari (224 DTT), surprising newcomer, who has just started broadcasting the matches of the Pro 12 and Excellence , starting from the third day, it could go on Rai (his goodness …). All in clear, agreed, but without a logical thread that one or other issuer, linking the various events between them.
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