Sergio Parisse
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| Date of birth | 12 September 1983 | ||
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| Place of birth | La Plata, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
| Weight | 104 kg (16 st 5 lb) | ||
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| Position | Number Eight, Flanker | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2003-2005 2005- |
Treviso Stade Français |
(67) |
(70) |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2002- | Italy | 86 | (43) |
| correct as of 11 December 2011. | |||
Sergio Parisse (born 12 September 1983, in La Plata, Argentina) is an Italian Argentine rugby union player. He was the first Italian rugby union player to be nominated for the IRB International Player of the Year. He has captained French team Stade Français and is current captain of the Italy national rugby union team.
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Parisse won his 50th cap for Italy against England in the 2008 Six Nations Championship, a remarkable achievement as he was just 24 at the time. Parisse is also the Italian captain, appointed in 2008 by Nick Mallett in place of Marco Bortolami.
A number 8 of great handling ability, Parisse's positional sense in the lineout and flair for getting across the gainline has marked him out as a special player in an often struggling Italian team.
Unlike several other Azzurri internationals of recently, Parisse's heritage is not a simple case of Argentina switching to Italy for economic reasons. His father, also Sergio, played for L'Aquila where he won the Italian Club Championships in 1967 before his job with Alitalia took him to Argentina in 1970. Sergio Junior was born in 1983 and played his early rugby for La Plata. His family spoke Italian at home and every year Sergio would go on holiday to Italy.
Parisse moved to Italy and joined Treviso where he played for four years before joining his Italian team mates Mauro Bergamasco and Mirco Bergamasco at French giants Stade Français in 2005. He is a keen skier but has done it less after Sylvain Marconnet broke his leg doing the activity in 2007.
He was capped at the age of just 18 by then Italy coach John Kirwan, in a 64–10 defeat against New Zealand in Hamilton in June 2002. Parisse scored his first Test try against Canada in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Though Italy failed to make it beyond the pool stage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Parisse played well, and continued his form into the 2008 Six Nations Championship.
In September 2008 Parisse was nominated for IRB International Player of the Year[1]alongside Dan Carter, Ryan Jones, Shane Williams and Mike Blair.
He missed most of the 2009-10 Top 14 season with a serious knee injury that ruled him out of the 2010 Six Nations Championship.[2]
Parisse captained Italy in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. He played well again and played in the 2012 Six Nations Championship.
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Parisse is married to Miss France 2006 and Miss Europe 2006 Alexandra Rosenfeld, they met in 2007 after Rosenfeld was invited to watch a Stade Français game and was then invited to the player's table. They got married in Hérault where Rosenfeld is from.[3] Parisse has appeared on Dieux du Stade on numerous occasions.[4]
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