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Matteo Ferrari
File:MatteoFerrari.jpg
Personal information
Full name Matteo Ferrari
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Left-back, Central-back
Team information
Current team Roma

Matteo Ferrari (born December 5, 1979 in Aflou, Algeria) is an Italian football (soccer) Central-back who currently plays for A.S. Roma

Club

Starting his career at SPAL, he can play left-back or central-back. Inter brought him to their youth system, later loaned him to Geona, Lecce and Bari. He was back to Inter, making 27 appearances, but failed to stay, this time loaned to Parma. A permanent transfer was made because of his good performance. On summer of 2004, he joined A.S. Roma for an undisclosed fee and Damiano Ferronetti going to opposite direction. He failed to give performance as in Parma, forced the club 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 retured 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. More rumours emmerged in late April stating that Matteo was far from happy at repeatedly having to play second fiddle to Alan Stubbs and David Weir. The chance to secure his signing permanently was in jeopardy. On May 8th 2006, Everton announced they would not follow up their interest in Matteo and that he would return to Roma.

Olympiakos FC is highly interested in signing him. Trond Sollied is rumored to have decided to get him. Most probably he will be playing for the Greek champions, following Brazilian Ze Roberto.

National team

Algerian born, with an Italian father and a Guinean mother, he choose 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.

Italy Olympic Team

Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Bronze medal – third place 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 matchs and Italy lost the semi-finals match against Argentina (later became champion of 2004 Olympics football), but Italy won the Bronze Medal match against Iraq.

Italy A

His first A team call-up is against Serbia and Montenegro (as FR Yugoslavia), but did not play. At the same year, He made his first A team debut is against Turkey in 20 November 2002. Not call-up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, his first non-friendly appearance is the last Euro 2004 qualifing match against Azerbaijan, replaced Alessandro Nesta at the last 14 minutes.

He is not played any match in the Euro 2004 final round.

He played for 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifing matchs in 2004. Since Marcello Lippi became the new coach of national team, he never played for/

External links

AS Roma – current squad
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