Wallaby scrumhalf joins Zebre
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Wallaby Luke Burgess has signed a deal to leave the Melbourne Rebels for Italian Pro12 side Zebre.
The No.9 will wear the Zebre jersey for the 2015/16 season and will remain in Parma until the end of June 2017.
The Newcastle-born player started his Super Rugby career with the Canberra-based Brumbies, where he made his debut in the Southern Hemisphere tournament.
After a spell in Melbourne for the Australian Rugby Championship, Burgess got back in the Super Rugby with the Waratahs in 2008.
During his stay in Sydney he made his debut for the Wallabies when he was just 23.
He remained with the New South Wales franchise until 2011, playing alongside another former Zebre player – flyhalf Daniel Halangahu.
Burgess was part of the Australian team that won the Tri-Nations in 2011 and, a few months later, gaining the third place at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand – the event which ended his international career because of his first transfer in the Europe.
In 2011/12 Burgess played in France with four-times European Cup champions Toulouse.
With the French side he won the Top 14 at his first attempt, before returning to Australia in 2013 – signing with the Rebels, the latest franchise to enter Super Rugby.
The scrumhalf has represented the Wallabies on 37 occasions; five times against the Italians, twice in Italy in 2008 and 2010 Test matches.
In his career Burgess had 78 appearances in Super Rugby and also faced the British & Irish Lions in their Australian tour of 2013, defeated 35-0 by them in the Test against his Rebels at AAMI Park in Melbourne.
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