Celestino Paoletti (born 28 January 1977) is an Italian former
rugby union
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international.
Career
A
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
-born prop, Paoletti was an
Italy
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international in 2000 and 2001, gaining a total of 15 caps. He made his debut in Italy's maiden
Six Nations match, a win over Scotland at the Stadio Flaminio.
Paoletti joined the
Newcastle Falcons
Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union.
The club was established in 1877 as the Gosforth Football Club. Around 1882 the club merged with the Northumberland Football C ...
from Plymouth Albion in 2005 and played there for one season, after which he returned to Italy. He played in the
Super 10 for Parma,
Petrarca
Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited ...
and Roma.
See also
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List of Italy national rugby union players
List of Italy national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Italy national rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a Test match.
Note that the "position" column lists the position at which ...
References
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1977 births
Living people
Italian rugby union players
Italy international rugby union players
Rugby union props
Sportspeople from Florence
Rugby union players from Tuscany
Newcastle Falcons players
Plymouth Albion R.F.C. players
Petrarca Rugby players
Rugby Roma Olimpic players
Italian expatriate rugby union players in England
Italian expatriate rugby union players