Italy call up third choice scrum half
Six Nations
March 15, 2001

It will be Parma's scrum half Filippo Frati turn to wear Italy's number nine
jersey against Scotland tomorrow in Murrayfield.

After former captain Alessandro Troncon was forced to withdraw his deputy Manuel Queirolo has had to pull out of the team because of a last minute injury.

The other two changes to the squad which played against France a fortnight ago in Roma are Northampton's Luca Martin, replacing injured Denis Dallan on the wing, and prop Franchino Properzi in for Tino Paoletti demoted to Italy A.

Among the replacements, scrum half Matteo Mazzantini from Treviso comes in for Queirolo, L'Aquila's prop Salvatore Perugini and Roma's Nanni Raineri sit on the bench for Properzi and Martin and Andrea Benatti from Viadana replaces Denis Dal Maso.

ITALY: 15 Cristian Stoica (Narbonne); 14 Massimiliano Perziano (Benetton
Treviso), 13 Walter Pozzebon (Benetton Treviso), 12 Manuel Dallan
(Benetton Treviso), 11 Luca Martin (Northampton); 10 Diego Dominguez
(Stade Français), 9 Filippo Frati (Parma); 8 Carlo Checchinato (Benetton
Treviso), 7 Mauro Bergamasco (Benetton Treviso), 6 Aaron Ronald Persico
(Viadana); 5 Andrea Gritti (Benetton Treviso), 4 Wilhelmus Visser
(Benetton Treviso); 3 Franco Properzi Curti (Benetton Treviso), 2
Alessandro Moscardi (Benetton Treviso capitano), 1 Andrea Lo Cicero
(Roma).

Replacements: 16 Giampiero De Carli ( Roma), 17 Salvatore Perugini
(L'Aquila), 18 Carlo Caione (Roma), 19 Andrea Benatti (Viadana), 20
Matteo Mazzantini (Benetton Treviso), 21 Giovanni Raineri (Roma), 22
Andrea Scanavacca ( Roma).

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