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Michela Sillari
Michela Sillari (born 23 February 1993) is an Italian rugby union player. She plays Centre for Italy internationally and for Valsugana Rugby Padova at club level. She has competed in two Rugby World Cup's, in 2017 and in the delayed 2021 tournament. Rugby career Sillari started playing rugby at the age of seven, she first played for Amatori Parma's youth team and then moved on to play for the Rugby Noceto Football Club, and then for Lupe Piacenza. She played for Rugby Colorno from 2011 to 2016. Sillari made her test debut for Italy against England on 12 February in Recco in the 2012 Women's Six Nations Championship. In 2016 she joined Aylesford Bulls, who later merged with Harlequins in 2017, and went on to win the 2016–17 Women's Premiership season. She then returned to Rugby Colorno in 2017, and made the Italian squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. On 23 April 2022, Sillari was named Player of the Match in Italy's Six Nations win over Scotland, she sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parma
Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second most populous city in Emilia-Romagna after Bologna, the region's capital. The city is home to the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world. Parma is divided into two parts by the stream of the same name. The district on the far side of the river is ''Oltretorrente''. Parma's Etruscan name was adapted by Romans to describe the round shield called '' Parma''. The Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci (born in a hamlet in the countryside) wrote: "As a capital city it had to have a river. As a little capital it received a stream, which is often dry", with reference to the time when the city was capital of the independent Duchy of Parma. History Prehistory Parma was already a built-up area in the Bronze Age. In the curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Women's Six Nations Championship
The 2012 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2012 RBS Women's Six Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 11th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches were held in February and March 2012, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day. The championship was contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England were favourites to win the tournament, and did so – their victory being their seventh title in a row, winning without conceding a try – the first time this had been achieved in the Six Nations. The tournament marked a significant step-forward in the broadcasting of matches. Three of England's five games were available to the armchair viewer – their home matches against Wales (broadcast live in the UK by the BBC), their game against Ireland (webcast by the RFU), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Female Rugby Union Players
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1993 Births
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's Capital of New Zealand, capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Rugby World Cup Warm-up Matches
The 2021 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches were a series of rugby union international test matches played to prepare teams for the 2021 Rugby World Cup, which were held in New Zealand in October and November 2022. They involved the 12 teams qualified for the World Cup, with Spain also included. The 2022 Laurie O'Reilly Cup was contested as part of the fixtures. They were held at a variety of venues from 24 July to 24 September 2022. Matches 24 July Notes: * Rumandi Potgieter and Monica Mazibukwana (South Africa) made their international debuts. ---- 30 July 13 August 19 August 20 August Notes * Dannah O'Brien, Aoife Dalton, Natasja Behan, Méabh Deely, Taryn Schultzer and Leah Tarpey (Ireland) made their international debuts. ---- Notes: * Awhina Tangen-Wainohu and Tyla Nathan-Wong (New Zealand) and Bree-Anna Cheatham (Australia) made their international debuts. * With this win New Zealand retained the Laurie O'Reilly Cup 27 August Notes: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Women's National Rugby Union Team
The France women's national rugby union team represents France in women's international rugby union. They played their first international in 1982 against the Netherlands. History ''Source: "Des Filles en Ovalie", Éditions Atlantica (2005), Written by Jacques Corte / Yaneth Pinilla B. Foreword by Serge Betsen.'' There are records of women's rugby being played in France as early as the mid-1890s, and in the 1920s a form of the game called "barette" was very popular, with national championships. However, after the 1930s the game had all but disappeared and was not revived until 1965 when groups of students in Lyon and Toulouse decided to take part in the great charitable campaign against world hunger. Most of them had brothers and friends who played rugby, so they decided to organise a charity game at Bourg-en-Bresse. So successful was this that a regular series of games began, with clubs being formed as students graduated, initially mainly in the south. In 1969 a national asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Women's National Rugby Union Team
The Scotland women's national rugby union team represents Scotland in women's international rugby union and is governed by the Scottish Rugby Union. The team competes in the annual Women's Six National Championship and has competed in five of the Women's Rugby World Cups since their hosted debut in 1994. The Nation plays an important role in the rugby world stage. History Scotland Women's first official test match was played against Ireland at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh on 14 February 1993, ending in a 10 - 0 win to the hosts. Leading from the front, first Scotland captain Sandra Colamartino was the scorer of both tries. In April of the following year, Scotland stepped in as alternate host of the 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup, finishing fifth, the team's best appearance to date. Since then, the Women's team have competed in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 and 2010 iterations of the tournament. The early streak of success peaked on 21 March 1998, as a 8–5 win over England in thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Women's Six Nations Championship
The 2022 Women's Six Nations Championship, known as the TikTok Women's Six Nations for marketing purposes, was the 21st series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It was held from 26 March to 30 April 2022. England entered the tournament as defending champions, having won the abridged version of the competition held in 2021. England defeated France in the final round of the tournament to secure their 18th title and their 16th Grand Slam. Format The 2022 competition saw the tournament return to its traditional format, with each participating country playing each other once, following the COVID disrupted tournament that took place in 2021. However the tournament retained its later starting date, which saw it begin after the conclusion of the men's competition. Participants Squads Table Table ranking rules * Four points are awarded for a win. * Two points are awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Premiership
The Women's Premiership, also called the RFUW Premiership was the top level of women's rugby union in England until 2017. It was formed in 1990 and was run by the Rugby Football Union for Women. It was superseded in the 2017/18 season by Premier 15s. History Women's rugby in England was initially run by the Women's Rugby Football Union on a British Isles-wide basis. The Women's Premiership was formed in 1990 as the top tier of women's rugby in the British Isles. In 1994, the Rugby Football Union for Women was formed and took over the management of women's rugby in England, including the Women's Premiership, after Scotland, Ireland and Wales left the Women's Rugby Football Union. At the start, most of the teams in the league were University teams. Since the RFUW took over and Professionalism was permitted in 1996, the university teams were gradually replaced by women's clubs associated with professional and semi-professional men's clubs as they were able to give the women's team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
