Sergio Lanfranchi
 Sergio Lanfranchi at Rugby Parma clubhouse in 1968. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Sergio Savaro Giovanni Lanfranchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 October 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Parma, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 January 2000 (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Barjols, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sergio Savaro Giovanni Lanfranchi (
FC Grenoble and, in 2016, the second longest international career for Italy (between 1949 and 1964), after Mauro Bergamasco
.
Two sports facilities in his hometown, Parma are named after him.
Biography
Orphaned of both parents, after school he was a combatant in
Italian Resistance and,[1] returning to Parma after the war, he started to work and play rugby union for the local team in 1946.[1] With Parma, he collected 101 caps[2] and won the title of Italian champion in 1950.[1]
After winning the
1953-54 French Rugby Union Championship played in Toulouse against Cognac, thanks to a try scored by Lanfranchi 20 minutes before the end of the match.[3]
His international career covered 15 years, from 27 March 1949; when he debuted in
FC Grenoble until he was 40,[4] when he moved to Montceau-les-Mines[1] as player-coach,[5] alternating his career at Montchanin; it is not clear if his career ended in 1971 at age 46 or in 1973 at age 48 due to discordant sources,[5] however, it was in Montchanin that he definitively established; in 1978 he had a brief experience in Italy as coach for L'Aquila Rugby,[5]
which soon terminated due to a lack of synchrony with the rugby environment of his home country.
Lafranchi died in
Pro14
.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Lanfranchi, il Braccio del rugby". Pane e Gazzetta. 2016-03-29. Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ "Trofeo "Sergio Lanfranchi"". Rugby Parma. 2014-07-27. Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ "Grenoble | Le FCG fête son centenaire contre Tarbes… avec de nouvelles couleurs". 2016-03-29. Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ a b c Dubenou, J.P. (April 1964). "Serge Lanfranchi le quadragénaire ardent". Miroir du Rugby: 64.
- ^ ISBN 978-88-97057-81-9.
- ^ "Zebre Rugby - Lo stadio di Parma intitolato a Sergio Lanfranchi". 2015-02-11. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
External links
- Sergio Lanfranchi international stats at ESPN Scrum