Marco Platania (born 6 May 1973, in Cremona) is a former Italian rugby union player. He played as a centre.
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana. It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local city and province governments. The city of Cremona is especially noted for its musical history and traditions, including some of the earliest and most renowned luthiers, such as Giuseppe Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari, Francesco Rugeri, Vincenzo Rugeri, and several members of the Amati family.
Platania played for Amatori Rugby Milano, from 1991/92 to 1997/98, winning 3 titles of the Italian Championship, in 1992/93, 1994/95 and 1996/97, and the Cup of Italy in 1994/95. He moved to Amatori & Calvisano, where he stayed from 1998/99 to 2000/01. He left sports aged only 28 years to pursue a professional career as an engineer, having graduated shortly before.
Amatori Rugby Milano are an ex Italian rugby union team based in Milan founded in 1927 and disbanded in 2011.
Rugby Calvisano is an Italian rugby union club currently competing in the Top12. They are based in Calvisano, in Lombardy. They were founded in 1970 by a group of players: Tonino Montanari, Gianluigi Vaccari and Alfredo Gavazzi. In 1992 the club became “Rugby Calvisano S.r.l.”
Platania had 4 caps for Italy, from 1994 to 1996, scoring 2 tries, 10 points on aggregate. He was called for the 1995 Rugby World Cup but he never played. [1] He also played for Italy A.
The Italy national rugby union team is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Italy. The team is known as gli Azzurri. Savoy blue is the common colour of the national teams representing Italy, as it is the traditional colour of the royal House of Savoy which reigned over the Kingdom of Italy from 1860 to 1946.
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country.
The Italy A national rugby union team are the second national rugby union team in Italy after the national side.
