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Date of birth: 6/9/1973
Position: Scrum-half
Test caps: 97
Test Debut: Spain, 1994
Test Points: 85
Current Club: Clermont-Auvergne
Strengths: As the most-capped Italian rugby player of all time, the combative Troncon has the experience and wherewithal to marshal the Italian team from the base of the scrum and he is also a skilled runner with ball in hand.
Weaknesses: Troncon's knees have all the reliability of an Enfield motorcycle and he is thus an injury concern. He was sidelined after the 2003 RWC with a serious knee injury which forced him to miss the 2004 Six Nations.
Likely headlines: Azzurri's Truncheon Troncon
Did you know? Ligaments from a corpse were once inserted into the his knee to speed up his recovery from that nasty injury.
