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| Full name | Matteo Ferrari | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1979 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aflou, Algeria | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Free agent | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | SPAL | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Internazionale | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | ||||||||||||
| 1997–2001 | Internazionale | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | → Genoa (loan) | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | → Lecce (loan) | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | → Bari (loan) | 26 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Parma | 81 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Roma | 78 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | → Everton (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Genoa | 33 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Beşiktaş | 46 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Italy U21 | 27 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Italy Olympic | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Italy | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 November 2009 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Matteo Ferrari (born 5 December 1979) is an Italian footballer, currently a free agent after being released by Beşiktaş J.K..[1]
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Ferrari started his career at SPAL in 1995, and he can play as left-back or centreback. F.C. Internazionale Milano 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, A.C. Fiorentina 1–0 A.S. Bari. Ferrari played the full match.
He went back to Inter in summer 2000,[2] making 27 appearances in all competition, but failed to stay, this time sold to Parma AC in co-ownership deal.[3] That season Parma also signed Sébastien Frey from Internazionale and sold Gianluigi Buffon and Lilian Thuram to Juventus.
A permanent transfer was made because of his good performance in May 2002.[4] That season, Inter also sent Adriano to Parma (in co-ownership deal),[4] and signed Fabio Cannavaro from the Emilia–Romagna side.[5]
In July 2004, he joined A.S. Roma for €7.25 million[6] (Part of the fee paid via Damiano Ferronetti going in the opposite direction and the loan of Cesare Bovo.),[7] as a replacement of Walter Samuel who went to Real Madrid. He failed to give the performances he had delivered in Parma in his first season with the capital club.
Despite faced a transfer ban blocked Roma to hire players,[8] on 24 August 2004, Giallorossi loaned him to UEFA Champions League competitor Everton for €200,000, with option to purchase for €5.5 million.[9]
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.
In April 2006 Everton FC manager David Moyes was talking about the summer transfer campaign on evertonfc.com and said that based on player performance he had already decided which players he wanted to keep.[10]
"Players are always playing for their future in some way, but we know exactly what they can do and I don't think what happens in the last month of the season will make a big difference to what I have decided."
–David Moyes
In May 2006, Moyes told evertonfc.com, the official site of Everton FC, that Ferrari loan would not be extended.[11]
Ferrari came back to Roma at the beginning of the season 2006–07 as Roma finished 2nd in the previous season and qualified for 2006–07 UEFA Champions League group stage (benefited due to the scandal) and was first choice central-back partnered with Philippe Mexès, while Cristian Chivu as left back or central back and Christian Panucci as the primary right-back, with Marco Cassetti as replacement. Roma also sent experienced Samuel Kuffour out on loan and sold Leandro Cufré. Ferrari played 27 time in Serie A, 24 of them were starters,[12] helping Roma to achieve second place in Serie A and winning the Coppa Italia.
Ferrari signed for Genoa for the 2008–09 Serie A season on free transfer.
On July 7, 2009, Genoa confirmed on its official website that Ferrari transferred to Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K. for €4.5 million. He signed a 4-year contract.[13] Ferrari had an injury in the match against Bursaspor and was absent for two months.
He was then released on the 21st of August, 2011.[1]
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 team, U17, U18, U20, Italy U21 team.
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.
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. He also received a call-up from new coach Marcello Lippi in September 2004 but did not play, and was his last call-up.
Ferrari was born in Algeria to an Italian father and a Guinean mother.[14] He grew up in Ferrara and has a brother who also used to be a football player. He and model Aida Yespica reunited in December 2009. They have a son named Aron, born in 2008.[15]
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