Justin Castellaro
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Justin Castellaro (born 7 September 1990) is an Australian
rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
footballer who represented
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at the 2017 World Cup. He played for the Northern Pride in the
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. He primarily played on the or .


Background

Castellaro was born in
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, Australia. He is of
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descent. Castellaro played his junior rugby league for the Herbert River Crushers.


Playing career

In 2012, Castellaro joined the Northern Pride from the Herbert River Crushers. In 2014, he scored a hat-trick in the opening match of the season, but suffered an
ACL injury An anterior cruciate ligament injury occurs when the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is either stretched, partially torn, or completely torn. The most common injury is a complete tear. Symptoms include pain, an audible cracking sound during in ...
in July that caused him to miss the rest of the year. He was named vice-captain of their
Intrust Super Cup The Queensland Cup, currently known as the Hostplus Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional rugby league football competition in Queensland, Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by fif ...
side in 2017. Castellaro retired after the 2018 season.


International

In 2016, he represented
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 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifiers. He played three games, scoring three tries, which included two against
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in the European play-off game. In 2017, he was named in Italy's
2017 Rugby League World Cup The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was the fifteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup tournament and took place in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea between 27 October and 2 December 2017. The tournament featured the national teams ...
squad. Castellaro scored Italy's first try in their 36-12 loss to Ireland and played in their 46-0 win against the United States.


References

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