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Andrea Di Giandomenico (L'Aquila, 4 January 1975) is an italian union player and rugby union coach, he played as a fly half and is currently the head coach of the Italy women's national rugby union team.

Biography
Growing up in the youth club of his hometown club L'Aquila, he won the 1994-95 Under-20 championship; in the first team until 2000, he was part of the team that reached the finalist in the 1999-2000 championship lost in the final against Rugby Roma; spent that year in Reggio Emilia, at the time in Serie B, and gaining promotion to Serie A in 2000-01, at the end of the first season in Emilia, he became player-coach of the club in 2004 after a negative financial phase in which the company had to face the re-foundation, starting from the C series; he returned to A in 2006 and demoted two years later.

He was called into the federal ranks in 2007 and was subsequently entrusted to him, in 2009, by the women's national team with various collaborators, including Tito Ciciò and Diego Scaglia.

He is the first coach to lead an Italian national selection to win at least three matches in a Six Nations: it happened in 2015 when the blue athletes beat in sequence in the last three days Scotland, France and Wales finishing third overall at two points from the leading pair Ireland (later tournament champion) -France; this performance was also valid for the qualification for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, completed in the Six Nations 2016 by beating Scotland in Bologna. At the World Cup held in Ireland Di Giandomenico led Italy to the ninth final place, improving the twelfth of the 2002 women's rugby World Cup, the most recent edition in which the team had taken part.