Matteo Ferrari

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Matteo Ferrari
Personal information
Full name Matteo Ferrari
Date of birth December 5, 1979 (1979-12-05) (age 28)
Place of birth    Aflou, Algeria
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Left-back, Centre-back
Club information
Current club Roma
Number 21
Youth clubs
1995-1996 S.P.A.L.
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1996-2002
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000
2001-2002
2002-2004
2004-present
2005-2006		 Internazionale
→ Genoa (loan)
→ Lecce (loan)
→ Bari (loan)
→ Parma (loan)
Parma
Roma
→ Everton (loan)		 19 (0)
11 (0)
03 (0)
13 (0)
16 (0)
65 (3)
72 (2)
08 (0)   
National team
2002-2004 Italy 11 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 21:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Matteo Ferrari (born December 5, 1979 in Aflou, Algeria) is an Italian football player who currently plays for A.S. Roma. Matteo was born in Algeria to an Italian father and a Guinean mother. He grew up in Ferrara and has a brother who also used to be a football player.

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[edit] Early career

Matteo started his career at Spal 1907, and he can play as left-back or centreback. Internazionale Milano F.C. brought him to their youth system, later loaning him to Genoa C.F.C., U.S. Lecce and A.S. Bari.

He made his Serie A debut on 29 August 1999, AC Fiorentina 1-0 A.S. Bari.

He went back to Inter, making 27 appearances, but failed to stay, this time loaned to Parma A.C..

[edit] Parma

A permanent transfer was made because of his good performance.

[edit] Roma

In August 2004, he joined A.S. Roma for an undisclosed fee and Damiano Ferronetti going to opposite direction.[1] He failed to give the performances he had delivered in Parma, forcing the club to loan him to UEFA Cup competitor Everton F.C..

It took a few games for him to get accustomed to the Premiership, but Ferrari showed plenty of quality when he finally got going for Everton. Unfortunately that was brought to an end in the 1-0 win over Arsenal, when he sustained nerve damage to his hamstring.

He returned to the Everton side for the FA Cup 4th Round replay defeat against Chelsea.

Rumours suggested at one point Matteo Ferrari wanted to return to Roma, but in April 2006 David Moyes declared that all the signs pointed towards Matteo wanting to stay on and sign for Everton. However he came back to Roma at the beginning of the season 2006-07 and was the first change after Philippe Mexès and Cristian Chivu playing an amount of 36 matches, helping Roma in reaching the second place in Serie A and winning the Coppa Italia.

[edit] National team

Algerian born, with an Italian father and a Guinean mother, he chose to play on the Italy national football team. He had played for U15, U16, U17, U20 teams. Selected since 1999, he won the 2000 European Under-21 Football Championship with Italy U21 team.

[edit] Italy Olympic Team

Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of Italy Italy
Men's Football
Bronze 2004 Athens Team Competition

He played for his country twice at the Olympics, In 2000 and in 2004.

In 2000 Summer Olympics, he only played the quarterfinals match losing to Spain. In 2004 Summer Olympics, he is one of the three over age players allowed. He played all the matches and Italy lost the semi-finals match against Argentina (eventual champion of 2004 Olympics football), but Italy won the Bronze Medal match against Iraq.

[edit] Italy A

His first A team call-up is against Serbia and Montenegro (as FR Yugoslavia), but he did not play. In the same year, he made his A team debut against Turkey on 20 November 2002. Not a call-up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, his first non-friendly appearance was the last Euro 2004 qualifying match against Azerbaijan, replacing Alessandro Nesta for the last 14 minutes.

His last cap was Italy friendly against Tunisia, on 30 May 2004.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Azzurri pair join Roma. UEFA.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-21.

[edit] External links

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Italy squad - UEFA Euro 2004
1 Buffon • 2 Panucci • 3 Oddo • 4 Zanetti • 5 Cannavaro • 6 Ferrari • 7 Del Piero • 8 Gattuso • 9 Vieri • 10 Totti • 11 Corradi • 12 Toldo • 13 Nesta • 14 Fiore • 15 Favalli • 16 Camoranesi • 17 Di Vaio • 18 Cassano • 19 Zambrotta • 20 Perrotta • 21 Pirlo • 22 Peruzzi • 23 Materazzi • Coach: Trapattoni
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A.S. Roma – current squad

1 Curci • 2 Panucci • 3 Cicinho • 4 Juan • 5 Mexès • 7 Pizarro • 8 Aquilani • 9 Vučinić • 10 Totti • 11 Taddei • 13 Andreolli • 14 Giuly • 15 Antunes • 16 De Rossi • 18 Esposito • 20 Perrotta • 21 Ferrari • 22 Tonetto • 25 Zotti • 26 Piţ • 27 Júlio Sérgio • 29 Barusso • 30 Mancini • 32 Doni • 33 Brighi • 77 Cassetti • Coach: Spalletti