# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michele-rizzo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:04.255Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michele-rizzo"
name: "Michele Rizzo"
slug: "michele-rizzo"
description: "Michele Rizzo is a retired Italian former rugby union player. His preferred position was prop but he can also play as a hooker. Rizzo last played for Petrarca, the club where he spent most of his career and where he made his debut in Serie A1 halfway through the 2000–01 season in a match against Viadana. He spent four years between 2014–2018 in England playing 38 times for Leicester Tigers."
tagline: "Italian rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michele_Rizzo_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1982-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.006624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Rizzo"
    title: "Michele Rizzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Rizzo"
    title: "Michele Rizzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Rizzo"
    title: "Michele Rizzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Rizzo"
    title: "Michele Rizzo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A9"
    title: "ミケーレ・リッツォ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3856775"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump