Tito Tebaldi (born 20 September 1987) is an Italian

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player. He plays as scrum-half. He made his debut for

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against Australia on 13 June 2009.

Career

Tebaldi is the nephew of former Italy fullback

Daniele Tebaldi Daniele Tebaldi (born 24 April 1961 in Parma) is a former Italian rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a fullback. Tebaldi played for Rugby Noceto and Rugby Parma F.C. 1931 in the National Championship of Excellence in Italy. H ...

, began his career playing for

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, a team based in the Province of Parma. He joined Gran Parma of the Super 10 in 2006, making his debut at 19. After establishing himself as a regular starter during the 2008–09 season, Tebaldi quickly earned a reputation as one of the best young players in Italy. Tebaldi joined

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in May 2010 for their debut season in the Celtic League.

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included Tebaldi in the Italy squad for the 2009 mid-year rugby test series after Simon Picone pulled out for personal reasons. Having made his debut as a replacement for Pablo Canavosio in the first test, Tebaldi was the starting scrum-half for Italy's final two games of the tour. Tebaldi played in all three of Italy's end of year tests and established himself as the first choice scrum half for the 2010 Six Nations Championship. On 2 March 2013, he signed with

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where he played 18 games with one score. It was announced on 3 December 2014 that he was joining Harlequins from

. On 17 May 2016, Benetton Treviso announced the player as new scrum-half from the 2016–2017 season. He played for Benetton until 2019–20 Pro14 season for to move to Petrarca Padova. On 18 August 2019, he was named in the final 31-man squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

References

1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Parma Italian rugby union players Rugby union scrum-halves Italy international rugby union players Zebre Parma players Aironi players Ospreys (rugby union) players Expatriate rugby union players in England Italian expatriate rugby union players Harlequin F.C. players Benetton Rugby players Petrarca Rugby players {{Italy-rugbyunion-bio-stub