Birth name | Derrick Appiah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 July 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Modena, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 118 kg (18 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derrick Appiah (born 19 July 1994, in Modena) is an Italian rugby union player who plays for Italinan club Colorno in the Top10. [1]
Appiah has featured for Mogliano in Italy's National Championship of Excellence and the Amlin Challenge Cup and has also enjoyed spells with Rugby Parma and Modena Rugby.
On 4 February 2015, Appiah made a move to England with Worcester Warriors in top level competition, which is the Aviva Premiership, starting from the 2015-16 season. [2] On 5 May 2017, Appiah signs for RFU Championship outfit London Scottish ahead of the 2017-18 season. [3] From 2018 to 2021, Appiah played with Italian Pro14 team Benetton. [4]
The prop was a regular for Italy U20s during the 2014 RBS Junior Six Nations campaign, helping Italy to a 32-13 victory over Scotland and a fifth-place finish. Later that year, he helped Italy to a third-place pool finish during the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship - a campaign which saw his country defeat Argentina U20s 29-26. In 2017 he was named in the Emerging Italy squad. [5]