Aironi

Aironi

Full name	Aironi
Founded	2010
Stadion	Stadio Luigi Zaffanella (Viadana)
Places	7,000
president	Silvano Melegari
Trainer	Rowland Phillips
Homepage
league	Pro12
2011/12	12th place
home Away

Aironi ( Italian heron ) was an Italian rugby union team. It was founded in 2010 and took part in the international Pro12 championship . Eight clubs from the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions are involved in this franchise and provide players for Aironi. At the end of the 2011/12 season, the team was dissolved again as the Federazione Italiana Rugby revoked its license for financial reasons.

Member clubs and stadiums

The franchise was a collaboration between eight rugby clubs, which were involved as follows:

• Rugby Viadana (54%)
• Rugby Colorno (15%)
• Gran Parma Rugby (10%)
• Rugby Parma (10%)
• Rugby Noceto FC (5%)
• Rugby Mantova (2%)
• Reggio (2%)
• Modena (2%)

Aironi's home games were played in Viadana at Stadio Luigi Zaffanella , the home stadium of Rugby Viadana. For particularly important games, the Stadio Giglio in Reggio nell'Emilia could be used.

Squad

The squad for the 2011/2012 season:

Front side (forwards) pier  Matias Aguero  Alberto De Marchi  Andrea De Marchi  Salvatore Perugini  Luca Redolfini  Lorenzo Romano  Fabio Staibano hooker  Tommaso D'Apice  Antonio Denti  Carlo Festuccia  Davide Giazzon  Fabio Ongaro  Roberto Santamaria Second row striker  George Biagi  Marco Bortolami  Filippo Cazzola  Carlo Del Fava  Joshua Furno  Quintin Geldenhuys  Luca Mammana Winger  Nicola Cattina  Filippo Cristiano  Simone Favaro  Filippo Ferrarini  Josh Sole  Frans Viljoen  Nick Williams

Back line (backs) Half of the crowd  Giorgio Bronzini  Tyson Keats  Tito Tebaldi Connection half  Alberto Benettin  Naas Olivier  Luciano Orquera Inner three quarters  Denis Majstorovic  Gilberto Pavan  Gabriel Pizarro  Matteo Pratichetti  Roberto Quartaroli Outer three-quarters  Paolo Buso  Riccardo Pavan  Kaine Robertson  Sinoti Sinoti  Giulio Toniolatti  Giovanbattista Venditti Goalkeeper  Andrea Masi  Ruggero Trevisan

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aironi, Silvano Melegari presidente. Gazzetta di Mantova, March 17, 2010, accessed August 28, 2010 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Squadra. Aironi, archived from the original on October 14, 2011 ; Retrieved October 11, 2011 (Italian).