Overview
- Italy confirmed the 42-year-old will join Gonzalo Quesada’s staff at the start of July as an assistant coach.
- He will leave his lineout post at Toulon after the Top 14 season and take a similar forwards brief with the Azzurri.
- Parisse is Italy’s most-capped player with 142 Tests and a record 69 Six Nations appearances, adding rare experience to the staff.
- Italy begin the inaugural Nations Championship with July away Tests in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
- The appointment follows Italy’s step forward in the Six Nations, where they finished fourth and beat England for the first time.