Italy coach Nick Mallett has named seven uncapped players in his training squad for the autumn internationals.
Seven uncapped players named in training squad
Italy coach Nick Mallett has named seven uncapped players in his training squad for the autumn internationals.
Nicola Belardo, Alberrto Benettin, Alberto De Marchi, Sebastian Rodwell, Andrea Pratichetti, Tommaso Benvenuti and Denis Majstorovic have all been included for the first time.
Mallett has also retained plenty of experience, with the likes of Salvatore Perugini and Fabio Ongaro, however former captains Sergio Parisse and Marco Bortolami are missing.
Aironi lock Bortolami, who is better known for his time at Gloucester, is ruled out after picking up an injury against the Ospreys.
Italy training squad: Robert Barbieri (Benetton Treviso), Nicola Belardo (Estra I Cavalieri Prato), Alberto Benettin (Aironi), Tommaso Benvenuti (Benetton Treviso), Valerio Bernabò (Benetton Treviso), Riccardo Bocchino (Aironi), Pablo Canavosio (Aironi), Lorenzo Cittadini (Benetton Treviso), Carlo Antonio Del Fava (Aironi), Alberto De Marchi (Aironi), Paul Derbyshire (Benetton Treviso), Simone Favaro (Aironi), Quintin Geldenhuys (Aironi), Leonardo Ghiraldini (Benetton Treviso), Denis Majstorovic (Estra I Cavalieri Prato), Luke Mclean (Benetton Treviso), Fabio Ongaro (Aironi), Antonio Pavanello (Benetton Treviso), Salvatore Perugini (Aironi), Andrea Pratichetti (Benetton Treviso), Sebastian Rodwell (Estra I Cavalieri Prato), Ignacio Rouyet (Benetton Treviso), Giulio Rubini (Aironi), Michele Sepe (Benetton Treviso), Alberto Sgarbi (Benetton Treviso), Tito Tebaldi (Aironi), Giulio Toniolatti (Aironi), Manoa Vosawai (Benetton Treviso), Alessandro Zanni (Benetton Treviso)
