Italy prop Riccioni signs for Saracens

Saracens have announced that Italy prop Marco Riccioni will join the club from Benetton Rugby ahead of the 2021/22 campaign. 

The tighthead has put pen to paper on a two-year deal which will see him stay at StoneX Stadium until at least 2023.

Riccioni captained his country’s Under-20s and was labelled one of the most promising young talents in Italian rugby with Rugby World claiming him to be ‘the most impressive tighthead to have come through the Italian U20 side in the last five or six years’. 

He featured at back-to-back Junior World Championships before signing for Benetton and his performances in green and white earned a call-up to the Italy national squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup where he made three appearances. 

The 23-year-old featured in the 2020 Six Nations and started Italy’s opening two games of the 2021 tournament against France and England – coming up against eight of his future teammates in the latter.