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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 1150167" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>Also defeating Italy before the pro era: (in addition to the countries in the table and previously mentioned Namibia 2x and Germany 4x)</p><p>- Spain 3x (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_rugby_union_team#Early_history_and_amateur_era" target="_blank">1929</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%E2%80%9372_FIRA_Nations_Cup#Second_Division" target="_blank">1972</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378_FIRA_Trophy" target="_blank">1977</a>)</p><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_national_rugby_union_team#History" target="_blank">Morocco 2x (1971, 1975)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_national_rugby_union_team#History" target="_blank">- </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_national_rugby_union_team#Early" target="_blank">Portugal (1973)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_national_rugby_union_team#History" target="_blank">- </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands_national_rugby_union_team#History" target="_blank">Cook Islands (1980)</a></p><p>- Soviet Union beat Italy 9x (and it hasn't existed in the professional era)</p><p>- Czechoslovakia (hasn't existed in the professional era)</p><p>- <s>Poland</s> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_national_rugby_union_team#History" target="_blank">(1987 but it was vs Italy U21, presumably no caps)</a></p><p></p><p>All accounted for, so definitely not in the pro era. Interesting that apart from 1929, they're all in a 10 year period 1971-1980. Not a great decade for Italy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 1150167, member: 73940"] Also defeating Italy before the pro era: (in addition to the countries in the table and previously mentioned Namibia 2x and Germany 4x) - Spain 3x ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_rugby_union_team#Early_history_and_amateur_era']1929[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%E2%80%9372_FIRA_Nations_Cup#Second_Division']1972[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378_FIRA_Trophy']1977[/URL]) - [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_national_rugby_union_team#History']Morocco 2x (1971, 1975) - [/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_national_rugby_union_team#Early']Portugal (1973)[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_national_rugby_union_team#History']- [/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands_national_rugby_union_team#History']Cook Islands (1980)[/URL] - Soviet Union beat Italy 9x (and it hasn't existed in the professional era) - Czechoslovakia (hasn't existed in the professional era) - [S]Poland[/S] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_national_rugby_union_team#History'](1987 but it was vs Italy U21, presumably no caps)[/URL] All accounted for, so definitely not in the pro era. Interesting that apart from 1929, they're all in a 10 year period 1971-1980. Not a great decade for Italy. [/QUOTE]
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