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Benetton Rugby: official renewal of Fabio Ongaro

Fundamental renewal in Benetton Rugby’s coaching staff. The green-and-white franchise has announced the extension of Fabio Ongaro until June 30, 2026. The former rugby player will continue as the Lions’ scrum coach.

Born in Venice on Sept. 23, 1977, Fabio Ongaro began playing rugby in Casale, a team with which he made his A2 debut in 1994. His professional career began with Benetton Rugby, where he played from 1998 to 2006, winning the Scudetto, an Italian Cup and an Italian Super Cup five times. He canò boast of being part of the Club of 100, with 151 appearances packed into the green-and-white jersey. He then embarked on foreign experience by moving to the Saracens with whom he played for four seasons in the English Premiership. When the experience overseas ended, Ongaro è returned to Italy wearing the Aironi jersey from 2010 to 2012.

Fabio Ongaro in his career has been a permanent member of the Italian national team since 2000. Under Kirwan’s management, Ongaro participated in the 2003 Six Nations and the World Cup of the same year playing the role of hooker. Subsequently, Fabio took part in all Six Nations until 2012 and in the World Cup in 2007 and 2011, thus collecting 81 appearances and 25 points in the Azzurri.

In the summer of 2012, after the second year of his contract with Aironi, Fabio è became team manager of Zebre, a position he held until September 2014. From 2014 to 2016 he was part of the Japanese national team staff led by Eddie Jones for two summers, devoting himself to the scrum. Since the summer of 2016 è member of the Benetton Rugby technical leadership, directing the forwards and scrum. In these eight Treviso years he has shown excellent coaching skills and has been one of the important elements of the Lions’ ride through all the victorious stages of recent history.

In 2019 when the green-and-whites reached the Guinness PRO14 Final Series, in 2021 when è the Rainbow Cup was won, in 2023 when the Lions reached the Challenge Cup semifinals, and in 2024 when coach Marco Bortolami’s troop won the URC playoffs for the first time.

“I am happy to extend my contract for two more sports seasons and thank the club for the show of trust. We embarked on this path now 8 years ago, demonstrating steady growth. And it is with this awareness that we look to the future, certain that it will be necessary to continue working to improve and reach higher and higher standards” these are the words of Fabio Ongaro after the official announcement of the extension.

“Satisfied with what we have done over the years, we are happy to confirm Fabio at the helm of our scrum for the next two years. This renewal reflects our confidence in his work and the willà to continue with continuityà on the path of growth undertaken to make this decisive phase of the game one of our strengths” said general manager Antonio Pavanello.

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Milan, Tammy Abraham sheds light on her future

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Tammy Abraham punished Inter again in the derby first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal. After the decisive goal in Riyad with which he gave the Super Cup to the Rossoneri, the English striker found the goal of the momentary lead with the Nerazzurri, who tied the score with Calhanoglu.

“I am really happy for the goal for me and for the team– Abraham said in the press conference. “Then we didn&#8217t win, so we are not happy and we have to fight for the next game, being positive, knowing that we are a good team”.

Then the’ex-Roma spoke about his future: “I do not know my future now. Milan is a great club, very passionate. I want to fight until the end for this club. Staying does not depend only on me”.

“It is a difficult season for everyone. We have other games though, every game is a final. There are always ups and downs. I would have liked to score more but the season is not over. There are 11 games to fight for. We want to play in Europe. We want to try to win the Italian Cup” Abraham concluded.

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Lewis Hamilton, disqualification behind: “Immediately looked ahead”

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Lewis Hamilton spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Japanese Grand Prix, scheduled for the weekend. “I heard some people say some nonsense – he began – like I would be losing faith in the team. I can say I believe 100% in this team, obviously there was a huge hype at the beginning of the year, probably a lot of people expected us to win right away, starting from the first race, but that was not what I expected.”

“I’m coming into a new culture, a new team, and it’s going to take time – added the British driver. “I’ve spent the last couple of months just observing how the team works compared to the other two I’ve worked in before. During the past week I have been able to take notes and point out areas where I think we can improve, and this process will continue throughout the year as we learn more and more from each other”.

Then he came back to the disqualification in China: “In general during a race you always avoid areas of the asphalt where there are bumps, in Shanghai at the exit of turn 13 the bottom was not touching the asphalt, there was not even rebound or anything like that, so I had no warning. Regarding disqualifications, we all know that all these single-seaters are set to the limit in every parameter, personally I didn&#8221t feel any frustration when I was made aware of it. It is what it is”.

“We immediately looked ahead, I was in Maranello on Wednesday and learned a lot. I would say the most impressive thing was seeing how the team worked, how they processed the data and how we worked ahead of this weekend, that is the most important thing” Hamilton concluded.

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Jannik Sinner, Riccardo Piatti name 4 names for post-Darren Cahill

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Riccardo Piatti, former coach of Jannik Sinner, gave a lengthy interview to Corriere della Sera in which he spoke about his former pupil with whom he parted ways more than three years ago: “When I finished with Jannik I admit I had a few months of daze, then I went toward what I like: teaching tennis. The Piatti Center is not a supermarket: you go through a growth process here. I did that myself. It was a mental click, priorities changed but tennis remains at the top of my thoughts. Now I chase kids” dreams.

“Everyone remembers the match with Daniel, in Melbourne, in January 2022, when he said: ‘be calm, ca**o’ – continued the Italian coach -. He was mad at me for court stuff, it had happened before: it is normal dynamic between coach and player. That is not the problem. I always wanted Jannik to become independent, I knew he would leave one day. But with him I had to be the strict, sometimes rigid coach: that was my role. Ljubicic scolds me that I used to tell him: you decide, Ivan, but then you do as I say. For Jannik, this penalty, at one point, was too much to handle”.

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Then he mentioned a few names for the post-Darren Cahill, who will leave the’Alto Adige at the end of the season: “Carlos Moya, who I had already considered. He has been No. 1, he knows the circuit. Humanly he is a very good person, like Darren. Renzo Furlan, now that he stopped with Paolini, is free. Ljubicic is very good. Or Becker, whom we had contacted; however, working with Boris is more complicated. The names are these”.

Closing on the return of the world number one, expected at the Internazionali d’Italia: “He will be strong right away. I really believe he can make the Grand Slam this year. The suspension has extended his life: he will arrive at the end of the season fresh. You play too much, mentally you never stop. He will come back energized and motivated. He always has been. In the pandemic many took advantage of it by not training, Gasquet in the doping stop gained eight pounds, Jannik did not lose a day. He knows perfectly well where he wants to go”.

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