Six Championship and League One players have been named in Italy's World Cup squad alongside some NRL stars.
The biggest name in the Leo Epifania's Azzurri squad is Parramatta Eels forward Nathan Brown, who played Origin for New South Wales in 2020 but now returns to the Italy side that he represented in 2017.
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