{"id":382411,"date":"2026-01-21T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:27:10","slug":"ange-capuozzo-misses-out-on-italys-33-man-squad-for-the-six-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382411\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Capuozzo misses out on Italy’s 33-man squad for the Six Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toulouse\u2019s Ange Capuozzo<\/a> is one of several big names to miss out on Gonzalo Quesada\u2019s Italy<\/a> squad for the Guinness Six Nations<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old broke his finger in Toulouse\u2019s final match of 2025, a 60-14 victory over La Rochelle, and was expected to be out for three weeks. Though it is likely he will join Italy\u2019s 33-man squad at some point, he has missed out for now ahead of their training camp in Verona, which will begin on Sunday, January 25.<\/p>\n

The 31-cap star is joined by Sebastian Negri, Ross Vintcent<\/a>, Tommaso Allan<\/a>, Gianmarco Lucchesi<\/a> and Jacopo Trulla<\/a> in a list of players not considered for selection due to injury.<\/p>\n

The squad, captained by Michele Lamaro<\/a>, features two uncapped players, Zebre<\/a> back-row Samuele Locatelli<\/a> and centre Damiano Mazza<\/a>, and will welcome back former Gallagher PREM stars Paolo Odogwu<\/a> and Matt Gallagher<\/a>, who missed the Quilter Nations Series.<\/p>\n

The Azzurri will get their campaign started against Scotland<\/a> in Rome on February 7 as they look to build upon a promising autumn where they beat Australia<\/a> and Chile, and pushed world champions South Africa.<\/p>\n

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Italy <\/p>\n

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Scotland <\/p>\n

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\u201cThese days of training are very important, filled with excitement as we await the pitch in the oldest rugby tournament in the world, facing some of the best national teams in the world,\u201d said Quesada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are always moments filled with emotion. Our last match in the 2025 Six Nations left us with a bitter taste in the mouth due to the result, but we delivered an excellent performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to build on the form we showed last November, where we changed some of our training methods, quickly rediscovering our automatic rhythms in just a few training sessions, and then aim to show the performances we had against Ireland<\/a> and Australia in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

Italy squad
Prop
Simone Ferrari (Benetton<\/a> Rugby, 69 caps)
Danilo Fischetti (Northampton<\/a> Saints, 58 caps)
Muhamed Hasa (Zebre Parma, 4 caps)
Marco Riccioni (Saracens, 36 caps)
Mirco Spagnolo (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)<\/p>\n

Hooker
Tommaso Di Bartolomeo (Zebre Parma, 6 caps)
Pablo Dimcheff (Colomiers<\/a> Rugby, 3 caps)
Giacomo Nicotera (Stade Fran\u00e7ais, 36 caps)<\/p>\n

Second-row
Niccol\u00f2 Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 58 caps)
Riccardo Favretto (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
Federico Ruzza (Benetton Rugby, 67 caps)
Andrea Zambonin (Exeter Chiefs, 14 caps)<\/p>\n

Back-row
Lorenzo Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 33 caps)
Alessandro Izekor (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
Michele Lamaro (Benetton Rugby, 49 caps)
Samuele Locatelli (Zebre Parma, uncapped)
David Odiase (Zebre Parma, 3 caps)
Manuel Zuliani (Benetton Rugby, 38 caps)<\/p>\n

Scrum-half
Alessandro Fusco (Zebre Parma, 20 caps)
Martin Page-Relo (Bordeaux, 21 caps)
Stephen Varney (Exeter Chiefs, 36 caps)<\/p>\n

Fly-half
Giacomo Da Re (Zebre Parma, 6 caps)
Paolo Garbisi (Toulon, 49 caps)<\/p>\n

Centre
Juan Ignacio Brex (Toulon, 49 caps)
Leonardo Marin (Benetton Rugby, 17 caps)
Damiano Mazza (Zebre Parma, uncapped)
Tommaso Menoncello (Benetton Rugby, 34 caps)
Paolo Odogwu (Benetton Rugby, 7 caps)<\/p>\n

Back three
Matt Gallagher (Benetton Rugby, 3 caps)
Monty Ioane (Lione, 42 caps)
Louis Lynagh (Benetton Rugby, 9 caps)
Lorenzo Pani (Zebre Parma, 8 caps)
Edoardo Todaro (Northampton Saints, 1 cap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toulouse\u2019s Ange Capuozzo is one of several big names to miss out on Gonzalo Quesada\u2019s Italy squad for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}