Stefano Romagnoli (born

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

, 5 February 1955) is a former Italian rugby union player and current coach. He played as a prop.

Career

Born and grown in the Emilian capital.

, He debuted at 16 years with

in 1971; then, he moved to

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-the

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sports group- in 1973, where he stayed for two years, during which he represented Italy at youth level; moving to

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in 1975, he was called up in Italy A and, in 1982, in the Italian national team, debuting in the 1982-83 FIRA Trophy against

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. Called up also for the later FIRA Trophies, he played his last international match during the

1987 Rugby World Cup The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. It was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia – New Zealand hosted 21 matches (17 pool stage matches, two semi-finals, the third-place play-off and the final) while Australia hosted 11 mat ...

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and

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, against

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. In the same year, he also returned to play for Bologna for 3 seasons, before retiring in 1991 playing for Noceto. At the time, he was the then-coach of Italy under-19 national team. Since 1991 he led, in parallel with his federal appointment, the Bologna team until 1997, in the last years along with

Mario Pavin Mario Pavin (born Treviso, 18 July 1958) is a former Italian rugby union player and is currently a coach. He played as a flanker. Biography A flanker, Pavin spent his career in Benetton Treviso; called up in the Italy national team for the fir ...

; in 1998 he was appointed coach of Amatori Parma, which in the following year, after the merger with Noceto's senior team, became

GRAN Parma Amatori Parma Rugby is a historical Italian rugby union team founded in 1971. History From Amatori to Gran Ducato Gran Parma Rugby was founded in 1999 following the merger of ''Amatori Parma Rugby'' and ''Rugby Noceto''. From 1999 to 2002 they ...

; in the new team, Romagnoli stayed until 1994; later he coached Viadana, from which he was however dismissed in February 2006, due to internal disagreements. Since 2008, along with Alessandro Ghini, he coaches Italy under-20 national team, and he is the Technical manager of the Ivan Francescato Federal Rugby Academy.

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Stefano Romagnoli international statistics
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