Simone Favaro is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player. Favaro, who is a flanker

Flanker (rugby union)

A flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Flankers play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside, or openside flankers; numbers six and seven respectively. The name comes from their position in a scrum in which they flank each set of forwards...

, plays club rugby for Aironi

Aironi

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 as of June 2010. He made his debut for Italy

Italy national rugby union team

The Italy national rugby union team represent the nation of Italy in the sport of rugby union. The team is also known as the Azzurri . Italy have been playing international rugby since the late 1920s, and since 2000 compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland,...

 against Australia

Australia national rugby union team

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 on 20 June 2009.

Biography

Favaro, the son of former Italy lock Roberto Favaro, began his career playing for the Treviso

Benetton Rugby Treviso

Benetton Rugby Treviso are an Italian professional rugby union club currently competing in the RaboDirect Pro12 and the Heineken Cup.They are based in Treviso in Veneto, and owned by the Benetton clothing company....

 under-19 team before stepping up to the Super 10

Super 10 (Italian premiership)

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 with Rovigo

Rugby Rovigo

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 and Overmach Parma. Favaro was an early developer and, at the age of 20, was the youngest player included in Nick Mallett

Nick Mallett

Nicholas Vivian Howard Mallett is a former South African rugby union player who was until recently the head coach of the Italian national team, previously replacing Pierre Berbizier on 3 October 2007...

's squad

2009 Six Nations Championship squads

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 for the 2009 Six Nations Championship

2009 Six Nations Championship

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. Favaro did not feature in the Championship; he subsequently made his debut against Australia in the 2009 Summer tour

2009 mid-year rugby test series

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 of the Southern Hemisphere. In June 2010 he joined Aironi for their first season in the Magners League.