Italrugby changes skin ahead of the All Blacks
Italrugby, the jersey
The new kits of’ItalRugby are a tribute to’Renaissance art, to one of its greatest exponents, Michelangelo Buonarroti, but also to the sense of belonging to a Nation and to the words of’the anthem that represent it. Sport and art come together to exalt the’Italianità and its excellence. The Azzurri bring to the field the spirit and values of rugby and, with them, the symbols of the Renaissance, its art and culture. The Italian Men’s National Rugby Team will face a new edition of the Guinness Six Nations in the winter (opener at Murrayfield on Feb. 1 against Scotland), but first è awaited by the Autumn Nations Series test-matches against Argentina, Georgia and the All Blacks of New Zealand in November.
Ahead of the upcoming 2024/25 men’s and women’s international windows, the Italian Rugby Federation presented today at the Macron Campus the new game sets made by Macron and that the Azzurri national teams will wear during the 2024/25 season, with the first appearance of the new jerseys on the international scene scheduled for later this month in South Africa, when the Italian Women’s National Team will take the field in the WXV facing Scotland, Japan and the hosts. Present at the presentation of the new 2024/25 collection were FIR president, Marzio Innocenti, the Federation’s top management and technical commissioners Gonzalo Quesada and Giovanni Raineri, as well as Macron CEO Gianluca Pavanello and a representation of the Azzurre and Azzurri of rugby.
“È a pleasure to be able to present the new jerseys of the National Rugby Team here in the Macron Campus, the place where ideas, projects, designs come to life and are concretely realized. – said Gianluca Pavanello, CEO of Macron – The new uniforms of’Italrugby are a hymn to beauty, art and all’italianità and the athletes, I am sure, will wear them with pride and with a great sense of belonging to those colors and symbols that they have always honored by giving their best on the field. L’Azzurro dell’Italia è was the protagonist last year and will be so also in the new exciting season that is about to kick off. We are happy to take the field alongside FIR to continue to live the same great emotions of a few months ago, supporting players and staff at their best with garments that represent the top in quality, technicality, performance level, style and elegance”.
Marzio Innocenti, President of the Italian Rugby Federation, said: “Macron è an extraordinary partner for Italian rugby, an’excellence of our country that, like our National Teams, wants to contribute to be ambassadors of Made in Italy in the world. The new jerseys of our Teams not only meet the technical specifications of modern high-performance rugby, but also testify with their design inspired by one of the historical eras of greatest cultural development that deep connection with our country, its history, its identityà. That same identity è which è is strongly rooted in all our athletes and è at the basis of the most recent results that have consolidated the Azzurre and Azzurri in the world top ten of our sport”.
