Women’s Italrugby, 26 summoned for training camp one month before Six Nations

Women’s Italrugby, 26 summoned for Parma meeting

National women’s rugby team coach Giovanni Raineri has summoned 26 players for the Feb. 26 gathering in Parma ahead of the Women’s Six Nations that the Azzurri will begin exactly one month later at home against France.

Summoned, among others, are athletes without ‘caps’ in the national team such as Mathilde Cheval and Alessia Margotti (Valsugana Rugby Padova), Alessia Gronda and Celeste De Robertis (CUS Torino, the latter at her first ever convocation); Alessandra Frangipani is once again part of the group after recent training camps with Italy U20, a representative with whom she took the field in the double match in Barcelona on February 11; Jessica Busato (Villorba Rugby, 9 caps) and Sara Tounesi (Sale Sharks, 26 caps) also return.

The 26 athletes summoned:

Busato, Jessica – Villorba Rugby
Capomaggi, Beatrice – Villorba Rugby
Cheval, Mathilde – Valsugana Rugby Padova
D’Inca’, Alyssa – Villorba Rugby
De Robertis Ambrah Celeste – CUS Torino
Duke, Giordana – Valsugana Rugby Padua
Franco, Giada – Rugby Colorno
Frangipani, Alessandra – Villorba Rugby
Granzotto ,Francesca – Unione Rugby Capitolina
Eaves, Alessia – Cus Torino
Gurioli, Laura – Villorba Rugby
Locatelli, Isabella – Rugby Colorno
Madia, Veronica – Rugby Colorno
Margotti, Alessia – Valsugana Rugby Padova
Maris, Gaia – Valsugana Rugby Padova
Muzzo, Aura – Villorba Rugby
Ostuni Minuzzi, Vittoria – Valsugana Rugby Padua
Rigoni, Beatrice – Valsugana Rugby Padova
Seye, Sara – Rugby Calvisano
Stecca, Emanuela – Villorba Rugby
Sgorbini, Francesca – ASM Romagnat
Stefan, Sofia – Valsugana Rugby Padova
Stevanin, Emma – Valsugana Rugby Padova
Tounesi Sara – Sale Sharks
Turani, Silvia – Exeter Chiefs
Vecchini, Vittoria – Valsugana Rugby Padova