Rocky Trimarchi is an Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...

footballer who last played for the

Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly r ...

in the

Ron Massey Cup The Ron Massey Cup (formerly known as the Bundaberg Red Cup and Jim Beam Cup) is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, run jointly by the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and the ...

. He had previously played in the NRL for the

Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and South West Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a joint-venture ...

and in the Super League for

Crusaders The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

. His position of choice was as a and he could also play in the .

Playing career

Trimarchi made his NRL début on 16 April 2006, scoring a try in his ninth minute on the field against the

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby leag ...

. He played for 4 seasons with the Tigers, before being released at the end of the 2009 season. Shortly before the start of the 2010 season, Trimarchi signed with

of the Super League. He played one season with the club, appearing in 26 games before returning to Australia. He is of Italian descent. In 2011, he was announced as a member of the Italian side that competed in the 2013 World Cup qualifying. Also in 2011, Trimarchi joined Group 6 country rugby league side the

Narellan Jets Narellan Jets Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Narellan, New South Wales Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Narellan is located 60 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central busine ...

References

External links

Rocky Trimarchi at ''NRL.com''Rocky Trimarchi at ''Wests Tigers''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trimarchi, Rocky 1986 births Australian people of Italian descent Australian rugby league players Italy national rugby league team players Wests Tigers players Crusaders Rugby League players Western Suburbs Magpies NSW Cup players Rugby league props Rugby league locks Rugby league centres Rugby league second-rows Living people Rugby league players from Sydney