Patrick Pellegrini is an Australian born Tongan rugby union fly-half who currently plays for Coventry in the Championship. He also plays internationally for Tonga.

Personal life

Pellegrini was born and raised in

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to an Australian father and Tongan mother. Pellegrini also has Italian and English heritage.

Club career

Pellegrini started off playing both rugby league and rugby union when he was younger but opted to focus on union when he was 14. He represented West Harbour in the Shute Shield, Randwick, and the New South Wales under-20 before coming to England to play for Sevenoaks RFC in Kent. He then signed for Coventry, who play in the Championship, in the summer of 2022 after a successful trial. In the 2022–23 season, he scored nine tries in eighteen games (153 points in total). In September 2023, Pellegrini helped Coventry beat Premiership team

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in the

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International career

He made his international debut for Tonga in a World Cup warm up match against

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in July 2023. Tonga lost 36–20. He also played two Test matches against Canada in one of which he made his first start. In August he was not named in the squad for the World Cup. He was recalled during the

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in place of

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, who was injured and ruled out for the rest of the competition. He made his World Cup debut by playing three games and scoring a try against South Africa.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pellegrini, Patrick Living people Coventry R.F.C. players Australian rugby union players Tonga international rugby union players Tongan rugby union players Year of birth missing (living people) Tongan expatriate rugby union players in England Australian expatriate rugby union players in England Rugby union fly-halves