Andrea De Rossi spurs the Azzurri: “Don’t be a little Italy.”

Andrea De Rossi spurs the Azzurri

Sky, for the Rugby World Cup, is fielding four great protagonists of the national team’s history: Diego Dominguez (74 caps, Italy’s all-time top scorer and one of seven players to have scored more than 1,000 points internationally), Andrea De Rossi (32 caps, captain at the 2004 Six Nations), Alessandro Moscardi (44 appearances, 19 times captain of the national team) and Pippo Frati (4 appearances), as well as Federico Fusetti (former player and now technical manager of Petrarca junior).

"We have the two strongest teams in the world in the group, there was even a 1 percent chance of winning with All Blacks or France we have to try not to miss this appointment, which means doing everything perfectly" says De Rossi.

"If we want to make the rugby world wake up, which only wakes up when we win, we have to try not to remain the’Italietta that beats Romania and Japan" then adds the Ligurian.

"With Uruguay it won’t be easy, but we can’t lose this match, because otherwise we’d go back five or six years – continues the former azzurro -. We have a lot of young people, è a beautiful Italy has been built, entertaining. Forò è it is clear that others also study, as we study ".

"But who said that the All Blacks will win with France? Let’s not forget that the transalpines will play at home" concludes De Rossi.