Zebre team announcement for final game of the season v Munster

The black & white boys are still searching their first ever win of the season after gaining 8 losing bonus points, many of them by the narrowest of the margins. Between Zebre and their first win there's an Irish side struggling in the last rounds of the competition: one win in the last seven games is the cause of the "Red Army's" failure to proceed into the RaboDirect PRO12 playoffs.

Tomorrow's game in Parma is highly important for both teams which aim to greet their fans in the best way possible. After the great fund-raising event of two weekends ago in Reggio Emilia with Zebre v Leinster, another great event awaits the Italian rugby fans for the last game of the first season of the new Italian franchise.

The South African Van Schalkwyk, try scoring leader of Zebre, recovers from his injury and will start for the Italian team alongside Italian internationals Garcia and Giazzon who both missed last game.

Forwards coach Vincenzo Troiani :"This is the last official game of a bad season if you look only at our results. Me and the coaching staff are satisfied by many aspects of this first season : the growth of the squad both in general and in the individual level and the increased quality of our play that allows us to be competitive at least in the last months; also if it was not enough to win a game yet. We're happy to have helped the grow of many young players at their debut in this competition. Thanks to those great weekly challenges I think that many of them are ready to be tested at an international level for Italy's national team directed by Jacques Brunel. This was one of our target, this is a part of Zebre rugby mission".

Here's Zebre line-up for Friday 3rd May match at Stadio XXV Aprile in Parma for the 22nd round of the RaboDirect PRO12 against Munster. Kick off at 7.45pm local time :
15 Ruggero TREVISAN*
14 Giovanbattista VENDITTI*
13 Alberto BENETTIN*
12 Gonzalo GARCIA
11 Sinoti SINOTI
10 Daniel HALANGAHU
9 Tito TEBALDI

8 Andries VAN SCHALKWYK
7 Mauro BERGAMASCO
6 Filippo FERRARINI*
5 Marco BORTOLAMI (cap)
4 Josh SOLE
3 David RYAN
2 Davide GIAZZON
1 Matias AGUERO

Replacements :
16 Andrea MANICI*
17 Luciano LEIBSON
18 Andrea DE MARCHI
19 Emiliano CAFFINI*
20 Filippo CRISTIANO
21 Alberto CHILLON*
22 Matteo PRATICHETTI
23 Samuele PACE

Coach. Christian GAJAN

* Former member of the Italian Rugby Union academy "Ivan Francescato" of Tirrenia.

Not available for selection through injury : Paolo BUSO, Nicola CATTINA, Filippo CAZZOLA*, Carlo FAZZARI*, Quintin GELDENHUYS, Leonardo SARTO* , Michael VAN VUREN

Referee: Andrew McMenemy (Scottish Rugby Union, 21st competition game) 4th for Zebre this season so far.

Assistant Referees: Matteo Liperini, Stefano Roscini (both FIR)
Citing Commissioner: Roberto Carra (FIR)
TMO: Carlo Damasco (FIR),

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