[RUGBYLIST] Coppa Garibaldi

[Paolo Imperatori]

Nessuno se ne era accorto; il sito FIR lo cita in due righe oggi.
Anche noi abbiamo la nostra Calcutta/Bledisloe cup...

Il Garibaldi Trophy !

e lo scultore è nientemeno che Jean-Pierre Rives !!!

se si vince tutti in giubba rossa al Gianicolo.
Italy and France play for Garibaldi Friday 02nd February 2007
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 *When Italy and France meet this year, they will for the first time be
playing for the Garibaldi Trophy as part of the bicentenary of the birth of
Giuseppe Garibaldi.*

Garibaldi is regarded as the man who changed Italy from a "geographical
expression" into a country. He marched around getting rid of all the little
states and is regarded as the father of the republic. The pope did not like
him but and eventual treaty brought reconciliation with the papacy and
independence for the Vatican. As Garibaldi was born over the border in Nice,
became a general in the French army during the Franco-Prussian War and it
was from France that he "invaded" Italy.

Then, too, Italian rugby is much influenced by France.

England and Scotland have the Calcutta Cup and the Four Home Unions the
Triple Crown, now a tangible trophy. There was nothing for the other two but
now they have the Garibaldi Trofeo/Trophée/Trophy. The International Rugby
Board approved the trophy on 6 December 2006.

The designer of the trophy is himself interesting - Jean-Pierre Rives, in
his time the blond French warrior with blood trickling down his face,
captain of France 32 times. He is now a professional sculptor and he
designed this new trophy.
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