Fabricio Coloccini

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Fabricio Coloccini
Personal information
Full name Fabricio Coloccini
Date of birth January 22, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth Córdoba, Argentina
Position Defender
Club information
Current club Deportivo de La Coruña
Youth clubs
to 1998 Argentinos Juniors
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1998-1999
1999-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004
2004-
Boca Juniors
A.C. Milan
San Lorenzo (loan)
Deportivo Alavés (loan)
Atlético Madrid
Villarreal CF
A.C. Milan
Deportivo de La Coruña
2(1)
0(0)
 ?(?)
33(6)
27(0)
31(1)
1(0)
52(1)
National team**
2003- Argentina 25 (1)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 25 November 2006.
** National team caps and goals correct
as of 30 June, 2006.

Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of Argentina Argentina
Men's Football
Gold 2004 Athens Team Competition

Fabricio Coloccini (born January 22, 1982 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for the club Deportivo de La Coruña in the Spanish First Division.

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[edit] Club career

Coloccini started his career in the youth team of Argentinos Juniors, but made his professional debut in 1998 with Boca Juniors. In 1999, at the end of the Apertura championship, he moved to A.C. Milan. In 2001 he was loaned to San Lorenzo where he helped the team to win the 2001 Clausura tournament. In 2002 he was loaned to Deportivo Alavés and then to Atlético Madrid later in the same year, before moving to Villarreal CF in 2003 (again on loan) and after finally playing a match for Milan, he moved to Deportivo de La Coruña in 2004.

Coloccini was the center of a controversy between Boca Juniors and A.C. Milan because the transfer from Argentina to Italy wasn't agreed between the clubs. Instead, Milan arranged terms with Coloccini's father (also a former football player), who exercised his parental rights to remove the minor from Argentina. After that, FIFA ordered Milan to pay Boca compensation.

[edit] National team

Coloccini was part of the Argentine youth team that won the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, as well as part of the gold medal winning Argentine team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also participated in the 2005 Confederations Cup, scoring one goal in the Confederations Cup game against Cameroon. In the 2006 World Cup, he played in two games, as a substitute against the Netherlands and as a starter against Germany in quarterfinals.

Fabricio currently lives in Argentina, with his girlfriend Elysia.

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Argentina Argentina squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists Argentina

1 Abbondanzieri | 2 Ayala | 3 Sorín | 4 Coloccini | 5 Cambiasso | 6 Heinze | 7 Saviola | 8 Mascherano | 9 Crespo | 10 Riquelme | 11 Tévez | 12 Franco | 13 Scaloni | 14 Palacio | 15 Milito | 16 Aimar | 17 Cufré | 18 Rodríguez | 19 Messi | 20 Cruz | 21 Burdisso | 22 González | 23 Ustari | Coach: Pekerman

Deportivo de La Coruña - Current Squad

1 Aouate | 2 Manuel Pablo | 3 Rodri | 4 Duscher | 5 Coloccini | 6 De Guzmán | 7 Bodipo | 8 Sergio | 9 Taborda | 10 Arizmendi | 11 Riki | 12 Pablo Alvarez | 13 Munúa | 14 Andrade | 15 Capdevila | 16 Juan Rodriguez | 17 Arbeloa | 18 Lopo | 19 Barragán | 20 Cristian | 21 Valerón | 22 Juanma | 23 Estoyanoff | 24 Verdú | 25 Filipe | Manager: Caparrós