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Italy replace Pez

Italy have been forced to replace Ramiro Pez, their Argentinean expatriate fly-half, for their tour to Uruguay and Argentina next month.

Pez was injured in the last Six Nations match and has not recovered sufficiently.

Pierre Berbizier, Italy’s coach, has brought in Overmach Parma’s Ezio Galon, who has eight caps. Galon was to have played for Italy A in the Nations Cup tournament in Bucharest. His place is taken in the A side by Samuele Pace on Arix Viadana.

Italy play Uruguay in Montevideo on 2 June and Argentina in Mendoza on 9 June.

Italy squad: Matias Aguero (Arix Viadana), Robert Barbieri (Overmach Parma), Valerio Bernabo’ (Cammi Calvisano), David Bortolussi (Montpellier), Christopher Burton (Orleans), Pablo Canavosio (Castres), Roland De Marigny (Cammi Calvisano), Carlo Antonio Del Fava (Bourgoin ), Carlo Festuccia (Rolly Gran Parma), Ezio Galon (Overmach Parma), Paul Griffen (Cammi Calvisano), Andrea Lo Cicero (L’Aquila), Roberto Mandelli (Rolly Gran Parma), Carlos Nieto (Gloucester), Fabio Ongaro (Saracens), Silvio Orlando (Benetton Treviso), Enrico Patrizio (Petrarca Padova), Matteo Pratichetti (Cammi Calvisano), Kaine Robertson (Arix Viadana), Josh Sole (Arix Viadana), Fabio Staibano (Overmach Parma), Marko Stanojevic (Bristol), Alessandro Stoica (Montpellier), Alessandro Zanni (Cammi Calvisano)

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