Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio, OBE was born on August 10, 1972, in London. He is a retired English rugby union player and former captain of the English national team. He played as a flanker or number eight for London Wasps and never played for another club, having arrived at Sudbury as a teenager. He was capped in all three positions in the back row, and captained Englan. Lawrence is involved in charity work, particularly children's charities, and is an active Honorary President for the Middlesex Region of the Wooden Spoon, the charity of British and Irish rugby that supports disadvantaged children and young people in UK and Ireland. Because Dallaglio's father, Vincenzo, is Italian, and his mother, Eileen, is half Irish, he was eligible to play for both Italy and Ireland, as well as England, and in the early 1990s he turned down an invitation to play for Ireland.