The debut match of the Italy Under 20 in the World Rugby U20 Championship, the junior rugby world cup, will be played this afternoon. And at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, with kick-off at 16:30, the Azzurrini will face Ireland, in a remake of the Cork challenge from the last Six Nations.
On that occasion the Irish won in a comeback 23-22, but at youth level it only takes a few months to change everything. Starting with the benches, with Italy seeing the debut of Roberto Santamaria as the Italian coach, while Ireland also has a new coach. For the rest, many names already seen in the Six Nations for Italy, but also many new ones to try to start the world tournament in the best possible way.
The match is scheduled to start at 4.30pm at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town. The live it will not be available in Italy, while the diretta streaming will be entrusted to the World Rugby platform Rugbypass.tv.
WORLD RUGBY U20 CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 CALENDAR TODAY
Saturday 29 June
4.30pm Italy – Ireland
ITALY-IRELAND WORLD RUGBY U20 CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 PROGRAM TODAY: WHERE TO FOLLOW IT IN STREAMING
Diretta streaming: Rugbypass.tv
ITALY – IRELAND
Italy: 15 Mirko Belloni, 14 Marco Scalabrin, 13 Federico Zanandrea, 12 Nicola Bozzo, 11 Lorenzo Elettri, 10 Martino Pucciariello, 9 Mattia Jimenez, 8 Jacopo Botturi, 7 Luca Bellucci, 6 Cesare Zucconi, Giacomo Milano, 4 Mattia Midena, 3 Davide Ascari, 2 Nicholas Gasperini, 1 Sergio Pelliccioli
On the bench: 16 Valerio Siciliano, 17 Francesco Gentile, 18 Federico Pisani, 19 Tommaso Redondi, 20 Nelson Casartelli, 21 Lorenzo Casilio, 22 Simone Brisighella, 23 Patrick De Villiers
Irlanda: 15 Ben O’Connor, 14 Davy Colbert, 13 Finn Treacy, 12 Sam Berman, 11 Hugo McLaughlin, 10 Jack Murphy, 9 Oliver Coffey, 8 Luke Murphy, 7 Max Flynn, 6 Sean Edogbo, 5 Evan O’Connell, 4 Alan Spicer, 3 Patreece Bell, 2 Danny Sheahan, 1 Jacob Boyd
In panchina: 16 Stephen Smyth, 17 Emmet Calvey, 18 Andrew Sparrow, 19 James McKillop, 20 Bryn Ward, 21 Jake O’Riordan, 22 Sean Naughton, 23 Hugh Gavin
