2008 Italy rugby union tour
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The 2008 Italy rugby union tour of South Africa and Argentina was a series of matches played in June 2008 in South Africa and Argentina by Italy national rugby union team.
The "Azzurri" lost heavily the first a match against "Springboks", and won afgainst the "Pumas”
Results
First test
| 21 June 2008 |
| South Africa | 26–0 | Italy |
| Try: Steyn 6' du Plessis 16' 43' Mtawarira 56' | report |
| Newlands, Cape Town Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Clancy |
Second test
| 28 June 2008 |
| Argentina | 12–13 | Italy |
| Pen: Hernández 2, Bosch 2 | Report | Try: Ghiraldini Con: Marcato Pen: Marcato 2 |
| Estadio José María Minella, Mar del Plata Attendance: 45,000 Referee: M.Goddard |
Argentina
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Italy
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| Bernardo Stortoni | FB | 15 | FB | Andrea Marcato |
| Lucas Borges | W | 14 | W | Kaine Robertson |
| Marcelo Bosch | C | 13 | C | Mirco Bergamasco |
| Miguel Avramovic | C | 12 | C | Gonzalo Garcia |
| Horacio Agulla | W | 11 | W | Matteo Pratichetti |
| 18' Juan Martín Hernández | FH | 10 | FH | Luke McLean |
| Nicolas Vergallo | SH | 9 | SH | Simon Picone 66' |
| 57' Juan Manuel Leguizamón | N8 | 8 | N8 | Sergio Parisse (capt.) |
| Álvaro Galindo | F | 7 | F | Mauro Bergamasco |
| Martín Durand | F | 6 | F | Josh Sole 58' |
| Esteban Lozada | L | 5 | L | Carlo Del Fava |
| 76' Manuel Carizza | L | 4 | L | Santiago Dellapè 64' |
| 46' Juan Gomez | P | 3 | P | Carlos Nieto |
| Alvaro Tejeda | H | 2 | H | Fabio Ongaro 71' |
| (capt.) Rodrigo Roncero | P | 1 | P | Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet 66' |
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| 46' Pablo Gambarini | 16 | H | Leonardo Ghiraldini 71' | |
| Pedro Ledesma | P | 17 | P | Alejandro Moreno 66' |
| 76' James Stuart | L | 18 | L | Tommaso Reato 64' |
| 57' Alejandro Campos | N8 | 19 | F | Alessandro Zanni 58' |
| Alfredo Lalanne | 20 | SH | Pablo Canavosio 66' | |
| Federico Martín Aramburú | FH | 21 | Enrico Patrizio | |
| 18' Hernán Senillosa | 22 | Jaco Erasmus | ||
| Coaches | ||||
| Santiago Phelan | Nick Mallett |