Laporte axes Gelez, Califano

FRANCE coach Bernard Laporte, still bitter after defeat to Ireland, resisted making sweeping changes to his squad of 22 to play Italy in the Six Nations Championship in Rome on March 23.

Thu, 13 Mar, 2003 - 00:00

Andrew Baldock

But he dropped flyhalf Francois Gelez and recalled 20-year-old Frederic Michalak who has won all but two of his six caps at scrumhalf.

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