Marco Bollesan
Birth name | Marco Bollesan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 July 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Chioggia, Venice, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 11 April 2021 | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Bogliasco, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Iron worker, Management, Public relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marco Bollesan (born 7 July 1941 – dead 11 April 2021) was an Italian rugby union player, coach and manager.[1]
Biography
Born in
Until 1975 he won 47 full caps and played 37 matches as captain. In 1965 he moved from Genoa to
From 1985 to 1988 he was the Italian National Team's head coach and took part at the
Bollesan died on 11 April 2021.[1]
Honours
- Rugby Partenope
- Serie A 1965-1966
- Rugby Brescia
- Serie A 1974-1975
Awards
On 7 May 2015, in the presence of the President of Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), Giovanni Malagò, was inaugurated in the Olympic Park of the Foro Italico in Rome, along Viale delle Olimpiadi, the Walk of Fame of Italian sport, consisting of 100 tiles that chronologically report names of the most representative athletes in the history of Italian sport. On each tile are the name of the sportsman, the sport in which he distinguished himself and the symbol of CONI. One of these tiles is dedicated to Marco Bollesan.[3]
See also
- Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame
References
- ^ a b Massimo Calandri (12 April 2021). "È morto Marco Bollesan, addio alla leggenda azzurra del rugby" [Marco Bollesan has died. Farewell to the Italian rugby legend]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Rome. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Marco Bollesan e la memoria del rugby". ilfoglio.it (in Italian). 14 April 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Inaugurata la Walk of Fame: 100 targhe per celebrare le leggende dello sport italiano" (in Italian). coni.it. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
External links
- Marco Bollesan at ESPNscrum
- Marco Bollesan at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
- Marco Bollesan at ESPNscrum