Antonio Pavanello
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Birth name | Antonio Pavanello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 13 October 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Agordo, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 113 kg (249 lb; 17.8 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonio Pavanello (
Club career
He began his career playing since youth level for
National team
While playing for youth and senior teams of Rugby Rovigo, he made a good enough impression to be selected for Italy at Under 19, Under 21 and 'A' levels. During his time in Treviso he has been capped five times by the Italy national rugby union team until 2007, playing 11 minutes against Argentina and 29 minutes against Australia in 2005. He gained his third cap against Argentina in 2007 playing 6 minutes as a replacement.[5] Pavanello was then basically dropped from the Italian main team for the whole tenure of Nick Mallett as head-coach (2007–11): though formally in the list of players eligible for taking the pitch in the 2010 Six Nations Championship, he only played in three test matches.[6] Despite good efforts with the Italian 'A' team at the 2011 Churchill Cup, he was not selected for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand; his drop caused some criticism [7] since the Italian team had poorly performed at line-out at the 2011 Six Nations Championship, whereas Treviso second-row led by Pavanello had proved consistent in this specific fundamental during the same season, but only fellow second-row teammate Corniel van Zyl was selected for the World Cup. In the wake of the
Personal life
Pavanello gained a master's degree in
References
- ^ "ERC Profile".
- ^ "Dettaglio Staff".
- ^ "Pavanello new captain of Treviso Rugby".
- ^ "Treviso wins their first ever Celtic League match". BBC News. 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Statbunker profile". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
- ^ "Pavanello 's international stats".
- ^ "I want Pavanello for the National team".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Pavanello banned for two weeks".
- ^ "Rugby and University: Pavanello is Dottore in Architecture".
- ^ "Pavanello confirmed captain of Treviso for 2010/11".