Italy helps restore careers of striken half-back talents

Return: Brive fly-half Florian Cazenave

ITALIAN rugby can be proud of the part it has played in the rehabilitation – physically and mentally – of not one but two players whose careers were thought to be over following the loss of sight in one eye.
The case of Ian McKinley is the better known with the former Ireland U20 and Leinster fly-half taking refuge first at lowly Leonoro Udine in 2013 after losing the sight in his left eye in an accident that dated back to 2010 when a University College Dublin teammate accidentally trod on his head at a ruck.
Initially he...

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