Debut in Paris: an impossible challenge anchored to Garbisi and the young rookies chosen by coach Crowley
ItalTreviso
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A new, yet another restart. With the hope – far from a certainty – that it will bear better results than the previous ones. Italy, from the noble balcony of Paris where today faces France in an almost impossible challenge, overlooks the Six Nations n. 23 wearing the inevitable role of a sacrificial victim. The summit to climb is still too high for those who, placed in 14th place in the world ranking, will have to face five opponents in the top eight in six weeks. The long streak of tricolor failures in the Tournament, which began in March 2015 and reached thirty-two, is sadly destined to lengthen. With one certainty: if until some time ago popular passion still survived, today blue rugby is no longer in fashion. If only because it is one of the few sports that did not participate in the party for the triumphs of 2021, a party that seems to expand into the new year, but we must not limit ourselves to this. We must look to the future with foresight, having the Fall 2023 World Cup, precisely in France, as the first possible verification of the project undertaken. From the coaching staff – this is the third management in five seasons – to the squad of players – never so young – we start practically from scratch. The curious circumstance is that the coach Kieran Crowley, world champion with the All Blacks in 1987, relies entirely on the Treviso franchise group (18 of the 23 men in today’s team wear green-and-white), trained for five seasons and from which, less than a year ago, however, it was sidelined. He had his suitcases in hand to return to his New Zealand, when the federal call arrived … The courage and desire to get involved, as we have seen since the November tests, are not lacking: continuing on that path, at the Stade de France there will be four rookies, two in the starting fifteenth (Menoncello and Halahifi) and two on the bench (Zuliani and Marin).
Go Garbisi
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Italy, awaiting the eventual return of a totem like Sergio Parisse and in the midst of many players who have to create an international identity, has a certainty: it is represented by Paolo Garbisi, a 21-year-old opening who in France, with the shirt of Montpellier, is getting noticed throughout the oval universe. On the eve he was interviewed for a long time by the agency France Press and Michael Aylwin, a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian, indicated it as a possible revelation of the Tournament. “We are a young team, with little experience – said the blue – but this reality can turn into a great opportunity. We can have a future of 10-12 years ahead of us. some concrete results “. The third blue line is the only level department and with different alternatives, to the point of being able to give up someone like the injured Jake Polledri. All the others, first line in the lead, are unknown.
Here France
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Today the team will be put to the test: France, who stopped the All Blacks in November. Around his scrum-half, captain Antoine Dupont, best player in the world 2021, exudes quality from all pores. And, for the first time since 2010, he aims to win the Tournament in order to launch himself towards the World Cup in the best possible way. He has all the credentials to make it.
February 6, 2022 (change February 6, 2022 | 05:32)
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