Alessandro Garbisi

Alessandro Garbisi
Garbisi in 2023
Date of birth (2002-04-11) 11 April 2002 (age 22)
Place of birthVenice, Italy
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight83 kg (183 lb; 13 st 1 lb)
Notable relative(s)Paolo Garbisi (brother)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
Current team Benetton
Youth career
Mogliano
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2020–2022 Mogliano 19 (8)
2021–2022 →Benetton 9 (0)
2022− Benetton 5 (0)
Correct as of 19 November 2022
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2021–2022 Italy U20 9 (13)
2022– Italy 7 (10)
Correct as of 20 Sep 2023
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2023− Italy Sevens 1

Alessandro Garbisi (born 11 April 2002) is an Italian professional rugby union player who primarily plays scrum-half for Benetton of the United Rugby Championship. [1][2]

Professional career

Garbisi has previously played for clubs such as Mogliano in the past. He signed for Benetton in June 2021 ahead of the 2021–22 United Rugby Championship on a dual-contract from Top10 side Mogliano.[3] He made his debut in Round 6 of the 2021–22 season against Glasgow Warriors.[4]

In 2021 and 2022 Garbisi was named in Italy U20s squad for the Six Nations Under 20s Championship.[5]

On 30 May 2022 he was selected by Kieran Crowley to be part of an Italy 33-man squad for the 2022 mid-year rugby union tests[5] and won his first cap on 1 July 2022 in Bucharest also scoring a try during the test match Italy won 45-13 against Romania.[6] In occasion of the said match he and his older brother Paolo are the first couple of brothers since 2014 to appear in the same game sheet of the Italian national team after Mauro and Mirco Bergamasco.[5]

On 22 August 2023, he was named in the Italy's 33-man squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.[7]

In June 2023 he was also named in Italy Sevens squad for the 2023 European Games.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Alessandro Garbisi". Ultimate Rugby. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  2. ^ "ALESSANDRO GARBISI IN BIANCOVERDE SINO AL 30 GIUGNO 2025". Benetton Rugby. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Dodici i permit players selezionati per la prossima stafione sportiva". Benetton Rugby. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Benetton 19-18 Glasgow Warriors: Heartbreak as Scots slump to defeat". BBC Sport. 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Italrugby, gli Azzurri convocati per il tour estivo 2022" [The Italian squad named for the 2022 summer tour]. federugby.it (in Italian). Italian Rugby Federation. 30 May 2022. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  6. ^ Simone Battaggia (1 July 2022). "Italia, il messaggio che serviva: Romania battuta 45-13, sette mete a una" [Italy, the message we were waiting for: Romania beaten 45-13, seven tries to one]. la Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Milan. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  7. ^ "ITALIA, I 33 AZZURRI PER LA RUGBY WORLD CUP "FRANCIA 2023". Federazione Italiana Rugby (in Italian). 22 August 2023.
  8. ^ "ITALSEVEN MASCHILE, GLI AZZURRI CONVOCATI PER IL TORNEO DI QUALIFICAZIONE OLIMPICA A CRACOVIA".


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