Valerio Virga

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Personal information
Valerio Virga
Full name	Valerio Virga
Date of birth	June 6, 1986
Place of birth	Rome, Italy
Height	1.81 m
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	A.S. Roma
Youth clubs
	A.S. Roma
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006-	A.S. Roma U.S. Città di Palermo Ascoli Calcio 1898 loan A.S. Roma	6 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 4 (0)
National team²
2006-	Italy U-21	1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 December, 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of September 3, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Valerio Virga (born June 6, 1986 in Rome) is an Italian footballer, currently playing for Serie A side AS Roma. He was born in Rome. He is recognised as great talent and is excpected to become a even more skillful forward.

A product of the AS Roma youth academy and one of the bright prospects of the giallorossi, Virga usually plays as midfielder. He made his Serie A debut on April 10, 2005, in an away league match against Udinese Calcio ended 3-3. He made six appearances in season 2004/2005, but never scored a goal.

In 2005/2006, he was signed by Palermo in a joint ownership with AS Roma, and then loaned to Ascoli Calcio 1898, where however he never played a game and was instead relegated to the youth squad. He returned to AS Roma in 2006/2007.

He scored his first goal for Roma in the Coppa Italia match in the 1/16 final against Triestina on 29 November 2006. He scored to 1-0. Roma won the match 2-0.

He played his first Champions League match against Valencia on 5 December, 2006. Roma won the match 1-0.

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He made his U-21 team debut against Luxembourg U-21, 12 December 2006, played the first half of the match.

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FIGC (Italian)

A.S. Roma - Current Squad
1 Curci \| 2 Panucci \| 3 Martínez \| 4 Wilhelmsson \| 5 Mexès \| 7 Pizarro \| 8 Aquilani \| 10 Totti \| 11 Taddei \| 12 Pipolo \| 13 Chivu \| 14 Faty \| 16 De Rossi \| 17 Tavano \| 18 Virga \| 19 Defendi \| 20 Perrotta \| 21 Ferrari \| 22 Tonetto \| 23 Vučinić \| 27 Julio Sergio \| 28 Rosi \| 30 Mancini \| 32 Doni \| 35 Okaka \| 77 Cassetti \| Coach Spalletti