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Full name | Jack Colovatti | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mortlake, New South Wales, Australia | 26 February 2001|||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 28 October 2023 |
Jack Colovatti (born 26 February 2001) is an Italy international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop or second-row forward for the Parramatta Eels in the NSW Cup.
Colovatti is of Italian descent. [3] His family came from Trieste. [4]
He played for the Batemans Bay Tigers as a junior and for the Canberra Raiders in the S. G. Ball Cup. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
In addition to playing rugby league, Colovatti works with the Giant Steps charity helping autistic children at a school in Gladesville, New South Wales. [4]
Colovatti played for the Parramatta Eels in the Jersey Flegg Cup in 2021 and 2022. [10] [11]
He played in two games for Parramatta in the 2022 Knock On Effect NSW Cup. [12] [13] He has been called out as a "promising talent". [14] [15]
In 2022, Colovatti was named in the Italy squad for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. [16] [17] [18] [19] He is one of around 40 players at the age of 21 or under at the World Cup. [20]
Colovatti was part of the Italian team in a pre-tournament friendly against Lebanon in September 2022. [4] He made his test debut against Scotland, playing 34 minutes off the bench in the Group B match at Kingston Park in Newcastle. [21] [22] [23] [24] He earned his second full cap against Fiji the following week. [25] [26]
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