The Beginning
The company was founded in 1998 to give life to a project rugby "high quality" in the initiative of a group of 20 founding members of the three associations involved in rugby decades of Sannio, in close consultation with the oldest rugby tradition of Campania.
Makers are involved in the project from the beginning, hiring several of the best coaches in the FIR, dozens of athletes entered by the owners, in the circuit of national youth teams are mixed by an executive team that, besides the figure of the passion, constantly refers to the method of management.
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