Andrea Scanavacca

Who is Andrea Scanavacca?

Andrea Scanavacca is a former Italian rugby union footballer.

His usual position was as a fly half.

He spent most of his club career with Rovigo which he entered at the age of 6. He also spent one season each with Rugby Roma in 2000–2001 and Calvisano in 2006–2007.

Scanavacca won his first cap for Italy on August 1999 against Uruguay. Since then he played 11 full international games until 2007 but never took part to a World Cup.

In 2007 it seemed likely that he would be included in the squad that would take part to the World Cup, but head coach Pierre Berbizier dropped him in June, well before the summer session of test matches that led to the tournament. Scanavacca was "disappointed".

Just some months before his dismissal, during the 2007 Six Nations Championship, Scanavacca scored the whole amount for his team at Twickenham against England.

In autumn 2007 he agreed to play another season, his last, with Rovigo and in June 2008 he eventually announced his retirement at 34. "Since I joined Rovigo at 6 I have always thought I had to be the first to get on the training pitch and the last to leave, and that's what I have made ever since.