Italrugby is set to return to Udine after 15 years

Rugby Italy returns to Udine on November 9

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It was presented on Friday the challenge of the Autumn Nations Series, the year-end international window, which will see Italy face Argentina next Nov. 9. The venue for the match will be Udine’s Bluenergy Stadium: the presentation, held at the very facility that hosts Udinese Calcio’s home matches, was attended by new FIR president Andrea Duodo, former national team member Alessandro Zanni, who hails from Friuli-Venezia-Giulia’s capital city, deputy mayor Alessandro Venanzi, Udine City Council’s Sports Councillor Chiara Dazzan and Udinese Calcio’s general manager Franco Collavino.

"We are thrilled to be able to make our debut in the Autumn Nations Series in this splendid Udinese Calcio facility,” said Duodo, “where we will also return in the years to come, in keeping with our evolutionary vision of the major international events organized by FIR, which already represent a strong point for our facility and which we aim to make progressively become a model for the entire sports apparatus of our country".

"Bringing the Men’s National Team to facilities like the Bluenergy Stadium è is essential to improve and increase the participation of fans and to attract new ones,” he added, “improving more and more the experience of our fans and offering prestigious windows to our partners, creating ever new commercial and communicative opportunities in stages suited to the’essential commitment of our TV partners".

"We return to Udine after fifteen years since the’only previous one, in November 2009 against South Africa – explained again the number one of the Federugby -, and we do it with a fascinating challenge, a Latin derby against the’Argentina that played the best The Rugby Championship in its history: a great challenge for our Azzurri, a great thrill for our technical commissioner Gonzalo Quesada who, for the first time in his career, will face as an opponent the national team whose jersey he has worn so many times, and a great event for our public, which has already responded positively on the ticketing front, with more than 60 percent of the available tickets already sold a month before kickoff’qquot;.