Biography of Martin Castrogiovanni
A man into the fray
October 21, 1981Martin Leandro Castrogiovanni, better known only as Martin Castrogiovanni, nicknamed "Castro", was born in Paraná, in Argentina, on 21 October 1981. Of Italian origins, is a naturalized rugby player "blue" to all intents and purposes grown sportingly in the peninsula, to become one of the best rugby players in the world. He won the English Championship, as the ranks of pylon Leicester Tigers, winning in 2007 the prize for best player of the tournament. In 2011 was also included in the "Planet Rugby's Team of the Year". With its aggressive look, long beard and long curly hair, is one of the most popular players of the national team and loved by the general public, which is credited with having revived and widely distributed both in Italy than in the rest of Europe the passion for this sport has always loved in countries such as Great Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand but still far from a real development in countries such as Italian.
Martin's family is originally from Enna, Sicily. Carney is the historical name of the country of his grandfather, Sicilian pure blood. Her mother is half German, Spanish and Argentine Aboriginal. The future rugby champion inherits quite a mixture of cultures, although he always felt from Argentina and, especially, Italian. Martin is passionate about the sport already when he was very young. His first love, however, when he was a teenager, is basketball. Accomplice a discipline not really wholesome, as you will recall further over the years during some interviews the same rugby player, passes immediately to the oval ball, despite the misgivings. At eighteen she throws herself into the fray for the first of many more times.
Its role is to prop and start playing Rugby section of the Club Atlético Estudiantes of Paraná, his hometown. He puts little to get noticed in Italy and, at the age of just twenty years, in 2001, goes to professional Rugby Calvisano, historical structure of the province of Brescia. Martin Castrogiovanni dispute five seasons playing for Calvisano, winning his first and only Italian League title in 2004, coming literally in the heart of Brescia fans. With a second place team scores then lombardo, losing the final, and won Italy Cup. In five seasons, "Castro" play 82 games and scored 8 goals. Thanks to his Italian ancestors then, never having represented Argentina at senior level the, Carney makes his debut with the Azzurri, as early as 2002, at the age of twenty-one years. It's then-coach John Kirwan that summons him, putting him in the field against the legendary All Blacks, for an important test in Hamilton.
From that point, it becomes a prop immovably Italian pack. In 2006 is procured from Leicester Tigers, where he becomes literally an idol. The following year, in 2007, he was elected best player of the English Premiership after just one League played across the English channel. He won the English League in seasons 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2009-10, becoming one of the strongest players in this parable the channel ever, totaling well 69 matches and 4 goals. Meanwhile, it also becomes a staple of the Italian national team, called into question by all coaches that take place on the bench. Playing his first six Nations in 2003, only twenty-two years. Great fighter, proves that he has a very good sense of the goal, despite his prop, as in the match played against Japan in 2004, where he made three markings on the same test-match. Even the new coach Pierre Berbizier then, considers it one of the landmarks, and inserts since 2007 French World Cup on a permanent basis. With new coach Nick Mallett, during the 2008 RBS 6 Nations "Castro" become the best blues in the first half, going to metaman four of five matches of the tournament, against Ireland, England, Wales and France.
Plays also the 2011 rugby World Cup and, even with the new CT Jacques Brunel, is summoned to the Six Nations in 2012, where he played once against England. On this last occasion, on the eve of important and sincere match, Martin Castrogiovanni gives an interesting and sympathetic interview with the newspaper Repubblica, where declares that the only rule that counts for him, in rugby, is this: "lower your head and push." Boyfriend for many years with the former skier azzurra Riza Caguicla, trevigiana born in 1986 and several times on the podium in slalom, Carlson owns, along with fellow Irishman Geordan Murphy, two Italian restaurants in Leicester. In 2016 out one of his books: the blue rugby tells his life, his career and his illness, celiac disease, "reach your goal", explaining that even sick you live, and you eat it, fine.
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