Iacopo Bianchi
Rugby player
Full name | Iacopo Bianchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1998-05-05) 5 May 1998 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Arezzo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 108 kg (17 st 0 lb; 238 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iacopo Bianchi[note 1] (born 5 May 1998) is an Italian rugby union player.
Career
His usual position is as a Flanker and he currently plays for Zebre, in Pro14 and for Fiamme Oro in Top10, on loan as Permit Player.[4][5]
For the 2018–2019 Pro14 season, Bianchi was named as Additional Player for Zebre and in the 2019–2020 Pro14 season he was named as Permit Player ever for Zebre.[6][7]
In 2017 and 2018, Bianchi was named in the Italy Under 20 squad.[8] On 26 May he was called in Italy A squad for the South African tour in the 2022 mid-year rugby union tests against Namibia and Currie Cup XV team.[9]
Notes
- ^ There are different spellings of Bianchi's name in use. Zebre rugby lists the spelling of his first name as Iacopo,[1] which is also used by the Pro14 in their news sources, but several other website lists his name as Jacopo Bianchi. Both variants yield several search results from reliable sources.[2][3] The player hasn't publicly commented on his preferred name spelling.
References
- ^ "Iacopo Bianchi". Zebre Parma.
- ^ "Iacopo Bianchi - Google News Search". Google. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ "Jacopo Bianchi - Google Search". Google. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ "Zebre Rugby Club – Cinque giovani talenti italiani per le Zebre del futuro". Zebre Rugby Club. 1 June 2020.
- ^ "Iacopo Bianchi profile". Fiamme Oro Rugby.
- ^ "LUNEDI 3 GIUGNO L'INIZIO DELLA STAGIONE 2019-20. 5 PERMIT PLAYERS E 5 GIOCATORI AGGREGATI". Zebre Rugby Club. 31 May 2019.
- ^ "Iacopo Bianchi". Zebre Rugby Club.
- ^ "ITALIA U20, GLI AZZURRINI PER IL WORLD RUGBY U20 CHAMPIONSHIP". Fir Rugby.
- ^ "ITALIA A IN RADUNO A TREVISO DAL 16 GIUGNO". Italy Rugby Union (in Italian). 10 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
External links
- It's RugbyFrance profile
- Ultimate Rugby Profile
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Zebre Parma – current squad
- Luca Andreani
- Iacopo Bianchi
- Luca Bigi
- Paolo Buonfiglio
- Matteo Canali
- Dylan de Leeuw
- Tommaso Di Bartolomeo
- Giacomo Ferrari
- Danilo Fischetti
- Taina Fox-Matamua
- Riccardo Genovese
- Muhamed Hasa
- Josh Kaifa
- Leonard Krumov
- Giovanni Licata
- Marco Manfredi
- Ion Neculai
- Matteo Nocera
- Juan Pitinari
- Giampietro Ribaldi
- Daniele Rimpelli
- Luca Rizzoli
- Davide Ruggeri
- Alessio Sanavia
- Dave Sisi
- Bautista Stavile
- Guido Volpi
- Andrea Zambonin
- Liam Zocchi-Dommann
- Filippo Bozzoni
- Pierre Bruno
- Ben Cambriani
- Thomas Dominguez
- Tiff Eden
- Alessandro Fusco
- Gonzalo García
- Simone Gesi
- Scott Gregory
- Ratko Jelic
- Enrico Lucchin
- Damiano Mazza
- Giovanni Montemauri
- Luca Morisi
- Fetuli Paea
- Lorenzo Pani
- Gerónimo Prisciantelli
- Franco Smith
- Jacopo Trulla
- Fabio Roselli