Classify male Italian rugby players

[Scipio Africanus]

Collage made by another Italian member

https://i.imgur.com/o23vRuDr.jpg
main phenotypes

[Tooting Carmen]

CM, Dinarids, Meds, Atlantids, Alpines.

[Davystayn]

Italy rugby players always show some very northern euro looking individuals, guess this is because rugby in Italy is popular in the north?

[Scipio Africanus]

rugby in Italy is popular in the north?

Yes.

[Scipio Africanus]

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[Scipio Africanus]

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[Davystayn]

I watch rugby a lot and a lot of Italian rugby players look northern, I always remember the Bergamasco brothers, Ghiraldini as well.

Rugby is popular in northern Italy rather than southern Italy, and it shows!

[Oliver109]

Agree with Davystayn, out of those listed i counted only 20 who look properly Mediterranean, would be interesting to compare them with the French rugby players, i have a feeling the French players are darker haired but still mainly Alpine-CM in type.

[renaissance12]

Italy rugby players always show some very northern euro looking individuals, guess this is because rugby in Italy is popular in the north?

In Veneto.. Treviso Padova and Rovigo teams.. they won most of the Italian rugby champioship

[Tacitus]

I watch rugby a lot and a lot of Italian rugby players look northern, I always remember the Bergamasco brothers, Ghiraldini as well.

Rugby is popular in northern Italy rather than southern Italy, and it shows!

The only parts of southern Italy where rugby is popular are Abruzzo and to a lesser extent Campania.

Here's a non-exhaustive list of southern Italian rugby players, past and present:

https://i.postimg.cc/g2Z9L5k2/Bpo-D6-a-CMAI1e-P5.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yY2tKPX4/Carlo-CANNA-2.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L4CGCRJs/France-v-Italy-RBS-6-Nations-Geb-Gf-M7-MMSfx.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/0yYghqgj/donofrio-sito.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/FzBq7bMS/Giovanni-Licata-2017.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YSzs1wcM/Italy-Rugby-Union-Portrait-Session-Wo-Fo-Gvbs-DPkx.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/65TxtqkR/massimo-cuttitta.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YS6JbWFc/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/JzJgzkPy/Sergio-Parisse.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/5tVrY2Rs/Tommaso-DAPICE.jpg
On the right:
https://i.postimg.cc/5NGd01Jr/top-marcello-cuttitta-a-milano-mancano-le-strutture-serve-un-grande-stadio-14593.png
https://i.postimg.cc/8cPMV7Mv/France-v-Italy-RBS-6-Nations-xi-WPaf1x-BRXx.jpg

[Scipio Africanus]

Many are from northern Italy but there are also central and southern Italians.


Here's a non-exhaustive list of southern Italian rugby players, past and present:

https://i.postimg.cc/g2Z9L5k2/Bpo-D6-a-CMAI1e-P5.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yY2tKPX4/Carlo-CANNA-2.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L4CGCRJs/France-v-Italy-RBS-6-Nations-Geb-Gf-M7-MMSfx.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/0yYghqgj/donofrio-sito.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/FzBq7bMS/Giovanni-Licata-2017.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YSzs1wcM/Italy-Rugby-Union-Portrait-Session-Wo-Fo-Gvbs-DPkx.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/65TxtqkR/massimo-cuttitta.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/YS6JbWFc/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/JzJgzkPy/Sergio-Parisse.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/5tVrY2Rs/Tommaso-DAPICE.jpg
On the right:
https://i.postimg.cc/5NGd01Jr/top-marcello-cuttitta-a-milano-mancano-le-strutture-serve-un-grande-stadio-14593.png
https://i.postimg.cc/8cPMV7Mv/France-v-Italy-RBS-6-Nations-xi-WPaf1x-BRXx.jpg

another sicilian player
https://i.postimg.cc/tgSRSDpF/sicr2.png
https://i.postimg.cc/Jtw9YHsN/sicr.png

[Oliver109]

Interesting, i have never seen such Cro Magnon looking sicilians, his father even looks like a Scottish whiskey reviewer on youtube

[Scipio Africanus]

another sicilian player



I made a mistake here this player is only half sicilian, his mother is german. Sorry for that.

Lo Cicero is fully sicilian
https://i.postimg.cc/YSzs1wcM/Italy-Rugby-Union-Portrait-Session-Wo-Fo-Gvbs-DPkx.jpg

[XenophobicPrussian]

Agree with Davystayn, out of those listed i counted only 20 who look properly Mediterranean, would be interesting to compare them with the French rugby players, i have a feeling the French players are darker haired but still mainly Alpine-CM in type.
Interesting, I decided to count how many "Mediterranean spectrum" people as well after seeing you did, and got 22, so pretty dang close.

[XenophobicPrussian]

1st in 3rd row is metrically Nordid(only metrically).

2nd in 5th row is metrically Polack.

I wouldn't bat an eye if you told me 1 and 3 in row 10 were Russian.

[Benyzero]

I watch rugby a lot and a lot of Italian rugby players look northern, I always remember the Bergamasco brothers, Ghiraldini as well.

Rugby is popular in northern Italy rather than southern Italy, and it shows!

Because a gracile med couldn't play rugby

[Tooting Carmen]

The only parts of southern Italy where rugby is popular are Abruzzo and to a lesser extent Campania.

Isn't Catania relatively successful in Italy's domestic championship?

[Scipio Africanus]

Isn't Catania relatively successful in Italy's domestic championship?

True,for example both LoCicero and Arancio are from Catania.

[Davystayn]

It is so great that Italy likes rugby, such a good spirit in the game.

[Tacitus]

Isn't Catania relatively successful in Italy's domestic championship?

Yes, but historically the areas in and around L'Aquila and Benevento have produced more players and have a bigger rugby culture IIRC.

[Hic et nunc]

Rugby is a safe space for Cro-magnon types.

[Davystayn]

Agree with Davystayn, out of those listed i counted only 20 who look properly Mediterranean, would be interesting to compare them with the French rugby players, i have a feeling the French players are darker haired but still mainly Alpine-CM in type.

Rugby is particularly popular in southern France, basque country in both France and Spain. There are always more French players from the south, particularly the south west, than the north of France.

North Italy is more northern than southwest France

[renaissance12]

Isn't Catania relatively successful in Italy's domestic championship?


No