Treviso shock troops aim for upset

WHEN it comes to experience, the Benetton Treviso side that tackles Munster in tomorrow’s Heineken European Cup game will not come up short.

Not alone do they include 16 full Italian caps, a Springbok out-half and an Irish full-back in their squad but they are coached by Craig Green, a key figure in the New Zealand side that captured the inaugural World Cup back in 1987 and a man with 20 All Black caps to his credit.

Green has been much travelled in the intervening years, but given that he is married to an Italian girl and his two daughters were born in his adopted country, it is only too easy to visualise what the present and the future of the game there mean to him.