Fulvio Fantoni

[citation needed] November 1963, Fantoni says that he has lived "practically since I was born" in Ostia, in the coastal district of Rome.

Since 2011 Fantoni and Nunes are full-time members of a team led and paid by the Swiss real-estate tycoon Pierre Zimmermann, under contract expiring 2016.

In September 2015, Fantoni and Nunes were publicly accused of cheating by orienting a played card to show a missing high honour (Ace, King, Queen) in the led suit at the European Bridge Championship in 2014.

"the majority of the Panel concludes that the exchange of information through the Code has not been proven to its comfortable satisfaction and rules that the appeal filed by the Players shall be upheld.

In protest, the remaining national teams refused to play against the Italians and subsequently forfeited their games.