Italy centre Tommaso Menoncello is out of the World Cup with a bicep damage suffered in a 33-17 defeat towards Eire in Dublin.

The Benetton star left the Aviva Stadium pitch in tears and apparent ache on 75 minutes, shortly after scoring the Azzurri’s second and last strive of the afternoon. 

Italy later confirmed Menoncello will endure surgical procedure this week after detaching a tendon in his left bicep. “Examinations carried out on Monday revealed that he suffered from a distal rupture of the biceps,” the federation mentioned in a press release.

Menoncello goes below the knife on Thursday, August 10. He’ll return to his membership for rehabilitation.

Head coach Kieran Crowley now faces a serious choice headache. He delayed saying his 33-player squad for the World Cup for ten days due to accidents in the course of the match towards Eire. 

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Saracens prop Marco Riccioni went off after ten minutes with a knee damage whereas Gloucester scrum-half Stephen Varney suffered a shoulder damage within the second half. Paolo Odogwu and Manuel Zuliani have to come back by concussion protocols.

Now, he has to exchange a younger participant who has shortly turn out to be integral to the squad.

Having come by the U20 ranks, Menoncello made a try-scoring senior debut on the wing towards France within the 2022 Six Nations. He switched to inside centre – his most popular place – towards Eire and Wales for the 2023 match, and remained in midfield for this summer time’s World Cup warm-up video games towards Scotland and Eire.

Italy, who’ve by no means reached the quarter-finals of a World Cup, open their Pool A account towards Namibia in Saint-Etienne on September 9. Additionally they face Uruguay, New Zealand and France within the pool part of the competitors.

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