Simon Picone

Simon Picone

Personal information
Full name	Simon Picone
Date of birth	26 September 1982 (1982-09-26)
Place of birth	Rome, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	92 kg (200 lb)
Club information
Position(s)	Scrum-half
Current club	Benetton Treviso
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1998–2000 2000–2001 2001–2002 2002–	Viterbo Rugby Roma Rugby Silea Treviso	1 (0) 1 (5) 19 (40) 87 (70)
Representative teams**
2008–	Italy	23 (5)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only and correct as of 31 January 2010. ** Representative team caps and points correct as of 10 September 2010.

Simon Picone (born 26 September 1982) is an Italian rugby union player for Benetton Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12 competition. He was born in Viterbo.

A Scrum-half, Picone was called up to the Italy squad for the 2008 Six Nations Championship. He came off the bench in Italy's 23–19 defeat to England in Rome to run in a try after charging down debutant England fly-half Danny Cipriani's kick.

External links

• RBS 6 Nations profile