Full name | Manfredi Albanese Ginammi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 25 July 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb; 13 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manfredi Albanese Ginammi (born 25 July 2001) is an Italian professional rugby union player who primarily plays scrum-half for Lazio in the Serie A Elite. [1] [2]
Albanese originally played for Lazio. [3] He joined Calvisano in 2020, [4] and joined Zebre Parma as a permit player for the latter stages of the 2021–22 United Rugby Championship although didn't make an appearance. [5]
He played for Benetton in the United Rugby Championship in 2022−23 season. [6] [7] [8]
In 2020 and 2021 Albanese was named in Italy Under 20 squad for the annual Six Nations Under 20s Championship. [9] [10] On 8 December 2021, he was selected by Alessandro Troncon to be part of an Emerging Italy 27-man squad for the 2021 end-of-year rugby union internationals. [11] On 10 January 2023, he was named in Italy A squad for a uncapped test against Romania A. [12]
On 30 May 2022, Albanese was selected by Kieran Crowley to be part of an Italy 33-man squad for the 2022 mid-year rugby union tests. He made his debut against Portugal. [13] He represented Italy on 3 occasions in 2022.
On 7 March 2023 Albanese announced that he will retire from professional rugby at the end of the 2022-2023 season to move back to his native Rome and focus on a career in business. [14] [15]
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