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| Full name | Joseph Tramontana | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 February 1997 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (13 st 8 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1] As of 30 October 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph "Joey" Tramontana (born 15 February 1997) is an Italy international rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles for the Intrust Super Premiership.
He represented Italy at the 2017 World Cup.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Tramontana is of Italian descent. He played his junior rugby league for the Marconi Mustangs and attended Patrician Brothers College. He played for Patrician Brothers in the 2014 GIO Schoolboy Cup, winning the Peter Sterling Medal as player of the tournament. [2]
Tramontana played in the Parramatta Eels' Harold Matthews Cup team, and represented NSW at under-16 level in 2013. [3] From 2016 to 2017, Tramontana played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Youth Competition, captaining the team in 2017. [4]
In 2016, Tramontana represented Italy in their World Cup qualifying campaign. The following year, he played in their 2017 World Cup squad. [5]
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