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Ospreys re-sign 'fantastic' 6'4, 110kg athlete Guido Volpi

Guido Volpi tackles Darren Sweetnam of Munster (Photo By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

The Ospreys have confirmed that backrower Guido Volpi has agreed a two-year deal to extend his stay at the Liberty Stadium. Volpi, 24, went out on loan to the Doncaster Knights in the English championship before returning to Wales to be part of the Ospreys pre-season preparations.

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The 6’4, 110kg back row joined the Ospreys back at the start of the 2018-19 season and has gone onto feature seven times for the region.

Volpi made his Guinness PRO14 debut in September of 2018, coming off the bench against Munster at the Irish Independent Park. He made his Champions Cup debut in Paris in December 2019 against Racing 92.

“The fact that the Ospreys have shown the faith in me with this new contract is a real vote of confidence for me,” Volpi told the Ospreys website.

Before moving to the region back in 2018, Volpi was part of Argentina’s high-performance programme. As a youngster he played for CUQ Rugby in Buenos Aires before heading to France to sign for Narbonne, he captained the club in the ‘Espoirs’ competition for under-23 teams.

Dan Griffiths, Rugby General Manager at the Ospreys said: “Guido has fantastic athletic ability and continues to make good progress in the programme. The opportunity to play under Clive Griffiths at Doncaster in the Championship last season gave him regular rugby at a professional level, where he showed his potential as a dynamic ball carrier. The challenge for Guido is to continue to develop and refine elements of his game and put himself in the thoughts of the coaches.

“He is now back with the Ospreys as we build for the return to rugby and has the chance to impress our new Head Coach, Toby Booth, over the next few months.”

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Volpi is the latest player to sign a new contract at the region, following on from hooker Sam Parry, centre Owen Watkin, locks Bradley Davies and Adam Beard, wing Keelan Giles, scrum-half Reuben Morgan-Williams, fly half Cai Evans, props Tom Botha, Rhodri Jones and Ma’afu Fia and backrower Sam Cross.

They were joined by new signings scrum half Rhys Webb, fullback Mat Protheroe, prop Nicky Thomas, second row Rhys Davies and outside half Stephen Myler.

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JW 40 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

The opening loss to Argentina by 38-30..

Was anything but fine margins, the scoreline was flattering for that game. They were beat in every margin but most emphatically be effort of Argentina. They were slow and likely arrogant in their prep following the England series. You can see the effect on the selection and poor messaging all the playmakers started receiving from the coaching setup there after.


Otherwise though there was also a lot of really good stuff that can too easily be labelled as lucky by people intent on making a point. The team was far from certain and clinical though and the best that can be said of their losses was that they were largely due to some atrocious decisions with cards twice against SA and the neckroll last weekend (you can't take away the 14 point try, that is typical French rugby and to be expected).


This team is good enough to be able to cope with those sorts of difficulties if they could just execute a bit better (but only as well as they have traditionally mind you). Sound selections aside. Some good positivity in this article but we know it's not going to be easy as the ABs have just been trying to return to their DNA after Fosters control but countries like Aussie have a much bigger task in that respect and SA is even trying to change their DNA (again). Those two opponents (along with France obviously) are going to provide some tough competition in seeing who can lead into the 2027 RWC with the best prospects and form behind them.

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