Italian Parisse to hang up his boots for good at end of season

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Italian flanker Sergio Parisse will hang up his boots for good at the end of the season, bringing an end to a 21-year professional career.Parisse, who turns 40 in September, had already announced his plans to retire but changed his mind last year.'I will finish next June. I know that after twenty y

Italian flanker Sergio Parisse will hang up his boots for good at the end of the season, bringing an end to a 21-year professional career.

"I will finish next June. I know that after twenty years in professional rugby, there will be difficult moments," Parisse told French rugby website Rugbyrama. The Toulon player is not in Italy coach Kieran Crowley's squad to face France in their Six Nations opener on Sunday but is still hoping for a record-extending 143rd cap.

 

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