Lorenzo Bruno Nero Dallaglio was born on 10 August 1972, and known as Lawrence Dallaglio, is an English retired rugby union player, former captain of England, and 2016 inductee of the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
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32 Facts About Lawrence Dallaglio
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Lawrence Dallaglio played as a flanker or number eight for London Wasps and never played for another club, having arrived at Sudbury as a teenager.
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Lawrence Dallaglio is one of a very small number of players to have won both the Rugby World Cup and Sevens World Cup.
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In 1998 Lawrence Dallaglio became club captain when Dean Ryan and Rob Andrew left for Newcastle in October 1995, taking four experienced players with them.
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Lawrence Dallaglio held the team together and 12 months later led Wasps to the first English league title of the professional era.
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Lawrence Dallaglio returned to find London Wasps struggling near the bottom of the Guinness Premiership.
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Lawrence Dallaglio later claimed it was Wasps' greatest Premiership title, noting the damaging effect the Rugby World Cup had on their squad.
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Lawrence Dallaglio made a sly appearance, at blindside flanker, for London Wasps "A" Team in the Guinness A League on 8 September 2008.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was a member of the inaugural World Cup Sevens-winning squad with England in 1993.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was then a surprise choice for the 1994 England tour to South Africa.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was given the England captaincy in the autumn of 1997 by new coach Clive Woodward, taking over from Phil de Glanville.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was a key member of England's 2003 Grand Slam and World Cup-winning side, being the only player to play in every minute of England's World Cup campaign.
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Lawrence Dallaglio regained the captaincy in 2004 after Johnson's retirement from international rugby, but without Johnson the team played poorly, and Dallaglio announced his retirement from international rugby on 31 August 2004.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was a blood replacement for clubmate Joe Worsley after 13 minutes and on 64 minutes was a replacement for Martin Corry, touching down with a clinically executed charge from the back of the scrum on 70 minutes.
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On 15 June 2007, Lawrence Dallaglio was one of 47 players chosen by England coach Brian Ashton to attend a pre-World Cup training camp and he was later named in the 30-man World Cup squad, alongside Joe Worsley and Jason Robinson, who were veterans of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup success.
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Lawrence Dallaglio started the first game at number eight, but was dropped for the South Africa match in favour of Nick Easter, who became first choice for the rest of the tournament.
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On 3 January 2008, Lawrence Dallaglio announced that he was retiring from international rugby with immediate effect and from domestic rugby at the end of the current season; he stated that he would like to take up coaching in the future.
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On 24 May 1999 Lawrence Dallaglio resigned as England's rugby union captain following allegations in the News of the World that he had used and been a dealer in hard drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy: the incidents were alleged to have taken place eight or nine years earlier, though the newspaper's front-page story made no mention of this.
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The newspaper reported that Lawrence Dallaglio had boasted about taking drugs at a party during the Lions tour to South Africa, in 1997.
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Lawrence Dallaglio "categorically denied" the newspaper's claim that he had dealt in drugs and said he had been the victim of "an elaborate set-up".
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Lawrence Dallaglio is damned in his own words and, frankly, we are amazed at his denial.
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England coach Clive Woodward, who was one of a panel of senior RFU officials who met Lawrence Dallaglio to investigate the matter, said he was "bitterly disappointed" for the player and his family but was confident he would be "proved innocent".
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Lawrence Dallaglio was later fined £15,000 plus costs by the RFU for the incident.
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Lawrence Dallaglio was an analyst for ITV's coverage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Lawrence Dallaglio captained the Help for Heroes XV at a charity match in Twickenham.
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In 2011 Lawrence Dallaglio wanted to redefine the focus of the charity, and so went about the task of creating a social inclusion programme that took into consideration his passion for rugby and its values.
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Lawrence Dallaglio RugbyWorks is an intensive, long-term skills development programme based on rugby, through which the aim is to get teenagers who have been excluded from mainstream education into sustained education, employment or training.
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In February 2010, Lawrence Dallaglio embarked on a gruelling cycle from Rome to Edinburgh during the RBS 6 Nations Championship to raise money for Sport Relief and Lawrence Dallaglio RugbyWorks.
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In 2012, Lawrence Dallaglio joined forces with former England cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff for the Dallaglio Flintoff Cycle Slam 2012.
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Lawrence Dallaglio has received an Honorary Doctorate from Buckinghamshire New University for services to sport.
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