Rocky Trimarchi is an Australian former professional

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 last played for the

Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) is an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as the club is commonly ...

in the

Ron Massey Cup The Ron Massey Cup (formerly known as the Bundaberg Red Cup and Jim Beam Cup) is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, run jointly by the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and the ...

. He had previously played in the

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for the

Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers is an Australian professional rugby league football team, based in the Inner West of Sydney and South Western Sydney. The Tigers have competed in the National Rugby League (NRL) since being formed at the end of the 1999 N ...

and in the

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for

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. His position of choice was as a and he could also play in the .

Playing career

Trimarchi made his NRL début on 16 April 2006, scoring a try in his ninth minute on the field against the

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugb ...

. He played for 4 seasons with the Tigers, before being released at the end of the 2009 season. Shortly before the start of the 2010 season, Trimarchi signed with

of the

. He played one season with the club, appearing in 26 games before returning to Australia. He is of Italian descent. In 2011, he was announced as a member of the Italian side that competed in the 2013 World Cup qualifying. Also in 2011, Trimarchi joined Group 6 country rugby league side the

Narellan Jets Narellan Jets Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Narellan, New South Wales Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Narellan is located 60 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central busine ...

References

External links

Rocky Trimarchi at ''NRL.com''Rocky Trimarchi at ''Wests Tigers''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trimarchi, Rocky 1986 births Australian people of Italian descent Sportspeople of Italian descent Australian rugby league players Italy national rugby league team players Wests Tigers players Crusaders Rugby League players Western Suburbs Magpies NSW Cup players Rugby league locks Rugby league second-rows Living people Rugby league players from Campbelltown, New South Wales 21st-century Australian sportsmen