IT PROBABLY wasn’t what Paolo and Alessandro Garbisi had pictured when they fantasised about playing together for Italy back in their shared childhood bedroom in Martellago, just north of Venice.
During all those long nights spent on the training pitch at the Mogliano rugby club, they would have perhaps imagined a grander backdrop for their dreams coming to fruition than the Stadionul Arcul de Triumf in Bucharest.
And yet the recently renovated Romanian national stadium will always have a special place in the Garbisi family’s heart, it being the place where the brothers not only first donned the Azzurri jersey on the same pitch but the site of their first-ever outing as team-mates.
Italy’s 45-13 win over the Mighty Oaks on 1 July last year brought 20-year-old scrum-half Alessandro’s first cap and first try. And Paolo, 22, came off the bench late on to make his 20th Test appearance
