Sergio Lanfranchi

Sergio Savaro Giovanni Lanfranchi (Parma, 27 September 1925 – Barjols, 22 January 2000) was an Italian rugby union player and coach, active in France for most of his career as flanker, number 8 and lock. He won two national championship titles, one in Italy for Parma and one in France for FC Grenoble and has the third longest international career for Italy (between 1949 and 1964), after Mauro Bergamasco and Sergio Parisse.

Two sports facilities in his hometown, Parma are named after him.

Biography Orphaned of both parents, after school he was a combatant in Piedmont for the Italian Resistance and, returning to Parma after the war, he started to work and play rugby union for the local team in 1946. and won the title of Italian champion in 1950.

His international career covered 15 years, from 27 March 1949; when he debuted in Marseille against France, until 29 March 1964 in Parma, also against France, alternating his career at Montchanin; it is not clear if his career ended in 1971 at age 46 or in 1973 at age 48 due to discordant sources, the stadium is the home field of Zebre in Pro14.