Mario Pavin

Mario Pavin

Birth name	Mario Pavin
Date of birth	(1958-07-18) 18 July 1958
Place of birth	Treviso, Italy
Height	185 m (606 ft 11 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) – Benetton Treviso () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1980–1987 Italy 8 (0) Coaching career Years Team 1995–1999 1999–2002 2002–2003 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–2012 2012– Bologna Mogliano Italy U17 Italy U18 Italy U19 Italy U17 Casale Paese

Mario Pavin (born Treviso, 18 July 1958) is a former Italian rugby union player and is currently a coach. He played as a flanker.

Biography

A flanker, Pavin spent his career in Benetton Treviso; called up in the Italy national team for the first time in 1980, during a match of the 1980-1981 FIRA Trophy at Rovigo against the Soviet Union, he had to wait 6 years before being called up again (against France A1, 1986). He took part, under the direction of the coach Marco Bollesan, to the 1987 Rugby World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, where he played his last international match, at Christchurch, against Argentina.

After his retirement, he switched to the coaching career, boasting coaching experiences as coach for Bologna and for Mogliano (currently San Marco) before entering into the federal rules, being in charge of coaching the Italian national youth teams from Under-17 to Under-19; in the 2008–09 season Pavin was appointed coach for Casale and member of the provincial coaching staff of FIR's Interregional Committee of Triveneto . Since 2012 he is also head coach for Rugby Paese.

External links

• Mario Pavin at ESPNscrum