Ezio Galon
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Ezio Galon (born 22 July 1977) is a former Italian
rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player. He played for
Mogliano Rugby Mogliano Rugby 1969 is a professional Italian rugby union club founded in 1956. They are based in Mogliano Veneto (Province of Treviso), in Veneto. Champions of Italy in the 2012–13 season, they are currently competing in the Italian Top10. ...
in the Excellence competition. A native of
Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...
, he formerly played for
Rugby Parma Crociati Parma Rugby F.C. are an Italian rugby union club. They are based in Parma in Emilia-Romagna. They were founded in 2010 by the merger of Rugby Parma F.C. (''Overmach Parma'') and F.C. Rugby Noceto and disbanded in 2014. Rugby Parma ''Rug ...
and, in 2000-2005, in the French sides of
Bourgoin-Jallieu Bourgoin-Jallieu (; ) is a commune in the Isère department in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France. The city had 28,834 inhabitants in 2019 and lies 35 kilometres east-southeast of Lyon. It was formed by the merger of the former comm ...
(2000–2001),
La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle'') is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France, department. Wi ...
(2001–2004, with whom he won two French Cups) and
Lyon OU Lyon Olympique Universitaire Rugby or LOU is a French professional rugby union team based in Lyon that currently competes in the Top 14, the highest level of the country's professional league system, having been most recently promoted for the 20 ...
(2004–2005). Ezio Galon's position of choice is as a full-back, but he is comfortable operating as a
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or on the
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. He played for
Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
in the
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
,
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
and
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
tournaments. He was called for the
2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup () was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by F ...
. After being the Assistant and Head Coach for Mogliano Rugby, he became Assistant Coach for Benetton Treviso for the 2016-17 season.


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Parma Rugby profileRBS 6 Nations profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galon, Ezio 1977 births Living people Rugby union players from Treviso Italian rugby union players Stade Rochelais players Benetton Rugby players Italy international rugby union players Rugby union fullbacks 2007 Rugby World Cup players Rugby San Donà players Crociati Parma Rugby FC players Italian expatriate rugby union players in France