Matteo Ferrari

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Matteo Ferrari
Personal information
Full name	Matteo Ferrari
Date of birth	December 5, 1979 (1979-12-05) (age 29)
Place of birth	Aflou, Algeria
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Genoa
Number	13
Youth career
1995-1996 1996–1997	S.P.A.L. Internazionale
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997-2002 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2001-2002 2002-2004 2004-2008 2005-2006 2008-	Internazionale → Genoa (loan) → Lecce (loan) → Bari (loan) → Parma (loan) Parma Roma → Everton (loan) Genoa	19 0(0) 11 0(0) 03 0(0) 13 0(0) 16 0(0) 65 0(3) 78 0(2) 08 0(0) 32 0(0)
National team2
2002-2004	Italy	11 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 30, 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of May 30, 2004. * Appearances (Goals)

Matteo Ferrari (born December 5, 1979 in Aflou, Algeria) is an Italian football player who is playing for Genoa in the Italian Serie A. 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.

Contents 1 Club 1.1 Early career 1.2 Parma 1.3 Roma 1.4 Genoa 2 National team 2.1 Italy Olympic Team 2.2 Italy A 3 References 4 External links

Club

Early career

Matteo 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, AC Fiorentina 1-0 A.S. Bari.

He went back to Inter in summer 2000, making 27 appearances in all competition, but failed to stay, this time loaned to Parma F.C..

Parma

A permanent transfer was made because of his good performance.

Roma

In August 2004, he joined A.S. Roma for an undisclosed fee and Damiano Ferronetti going in the 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 third choice centre-half after Philippe Mexès and Cristian Chivu playing 36 matches, helping Roma to achieve second place in Serie A and winning the Coppa Italia.

Genoa

Matteo Ferrari is currently playing for Genoa.

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 team, Italy U21 team.

Italy Olympic Team

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  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.

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.

References

1. ^ "Azzurri pair join Roma". UEFA.com. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/news/kind=1/newsid=212052.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-21. 

External links

• Profile at Soccerway
• (Italian) Inter Archive
• (Italian) Profile at A.S. Roma Official Site
• Profile at UEFA.com
• (Italian) National Team Records

v • d • e Italy squad – 2004 Olympic Bronze Medalists 1 Pelizzoli • 2 Chiellini • 3 Moretti • 4 Ferrari • 5 Bonera • 6 De Rossi • 7 Pinzi • 8 Palombo • 9 Gilardino • 10 Pirlo • 11 Sculli • 12 Gasbarroni • 13 Barzagli • 14 Bovo • 15 Donadel • 16 Del Nero • 17 Mesto • 18 Amelia • Coach: Gentile

v • d • e 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

v • d • e Genoa C.F.C. – current squad 1 Lamanna · 4 Criscito · 7 Rossi · 9 Crespo · 10 Palladino · 11 Olivera · 13 Ferrari · 14 Sculli · 15 Sokratis · 17 Janković · 19 Paro · 20 Mesto · 23 Modesto · 25 Biava · 26 Bocchetti · 27 D'Alessandro · 28 Jurić · 31 El Shaarawi · 34 Signorini · 68 Vanden Borre · 73 Scarpi · 77 Milanetto · 83 Rubinho · 90 Lamantia · -- Floccari · -- Troest · Coach: Gasperini