Giordana Duca

Giordana Duca

Duca in 2021
Date of birth	(1992-09-18) 18 September 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Frascati, Italy
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2010–13 Frascati (0) 2013–15 Red & Blue (0) 2015–18 Frascati (0) 2018–19 Capitoline (0) 2019–Present Valsugana (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2018–Present  Italy 41 (10)

Giordana Duca (born 18 September 1992) is an Italian rugby union player.^[1] She plays as a lock for Valsugana. She has 34 caps with the Italy national rugby union team.^[2]

Career

She competed at the 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, 2021 Rugby World Cup,^[3] and 2022 Women's Six Nations Championship.^[4][5]

She played for Frascati and Red & Blue Rugby. She was called up for the 2018 Six Nations during which she made her national debut in Reggio Emilia against England  and played a total of 4 matches.

The following November, she played in Calvisano against Scotland during test matches at the end of the year, and scored her first international goal.

After a season with Capitolina Rugby team, Duca played in Padua with Valsugana starting from the 2019-20 sports season.^[6]

References

1. "Giordana Duca". www.ultimaterugby.com. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
2. Montemauri, Lorenzo (2020-02-14). "Rugby - Giordana Duca - rugby - Nazionale femminile - Italia". On Rugby (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-16.
3. "Giordana Duca of Italy is tackled during the Pool B Rugby World Cup..." Getty Images. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
4. "Experience and youth in 33-player Italy squad". TikTok Women’s Six Nations. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
5. Max. "Giordana Duca". Women's Rugby Data : Number 1 for Women's Rugby. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
6. "Valsu Girls d'esportazione Ruzza adieu: destinazione Parigi". Il Mattino di Padova (in Italian). 2019-08-03. Retrieved 2022-11-16.