Guido Rossi (born 18 April 1959) is a former Italian

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player. He played as a

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Club career

Born in

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

, Rossi played all his career at the city's Benetton Rugby from 1977–78 to 1993–94. He was one of the most emblematic players of Benetton Treviso during this time, winning four titles of the National Championship of Excellence in 1977–78, 1982–83, 1988–89, and 1991–92.

International career

Rossi had 45 caps for the Italy national rugby union team from 1981 to 1991 without ever scoring. He played in all the editions of the European Nations Cup during this time. He was called for the

1987 Rugby World Cup The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. It was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia – New Zealand hosted 21 matches (17 pool stage matches, two quarter-finals, the third-place play-off and the final) while Australia hosted 11 ...

, where he played two games. He was also called for the

1991 Rugby World Cup The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France: at the time, the five European countries who participated in the Five Nations Championship. This was ...

, wehere he did not play any game.

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