Fabio Staibano is an Italian

Italy

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 rugby union

Rugby union

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 footballer. He plays as a prop.

Staibano played at a youth level at Battipaglia Rugby, moving to Overmach Rugby Parma F.C., aged 18 years old, where he would stay from 2001/02 to 2007/08. Staibano represented the French team of Castres Olympique

Castres Olympique

Castres Olympique is a French rugby union club located in the Midi-Pyrénées city of Castres and currently competing in the top level of the French league system.Founded in 1898, the club took its current name in 1906...

 for the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons. Fabio joined Aironi

Aironi

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 for the 2010/2011 season.

Staibano has 9 caps for Italy

Italy national rugby union team

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, having yet to score his first points. The Italian prop's first cap came at 11 June 2006, in a 52-6 win over Japan

Japan national rugby union team

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, in Tokyo

Tokyo

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. He played two games during the 2007 Six Nations Championship

2007 Six Nations Championship

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. He had been called as Carlo Del Fava's

Carlo Del Fava

Carlo Antonio Del Fava is a rugby union player. His preferred position is Lock, and he currently plays for Aironi in the Celtic League....

 replacement for the 2007 Rugby World Cup

2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...

 finals, but he was ruled out too, due an injury. Del Fava was ruled fit soon and took his place. Staibano was originally called up for the 2009 Six Nations Championship

2009 Six Nations Championship

The 2009 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2009 RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the tenth Six Nations Championship, an annual rugby union competition contested by the six major Northern Hemisphere rugby union national teams...

but he was left out of the final team.

External links

• Fabio Staibano International Statistics