Alessandro Pistone

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Alessandro Pistone
Personal information
Full name	Alessandro Pistone
Date of birth	July 27, 1975 (1975-07-27) (age 32)
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Playing position	Full-back
Club information
Current club	R.A.E.C. Mons
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993–1994 1994–1995 1995–1996 1996–1997 1997–2000 2000–2007 2007–	Solbiatese Crevalcore Vicenza Internazionale Newcastle United Everton R.A.E.C. Mons	020 (1) 029 (4) 006 (0) 045 (1) 046 (1) 103 (1) 004 (0)
National team2
1995–1997 1996	Italy U-21 Italy Olympic	011 (2) 002 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 April 2008 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 13 April 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Alessandro Pistone (born July 27, 1975 in Milan) is an Italian footballer, currently playing for R.A.E.C. Mons.

[edit] Football career

He started his career at Solbiatese and Crevalcore, two small Italian teams who in recent years have slid to the lowest tier of professional Italian football, before moving to Vicenza for the duration of the 1995-96 season. He transferred to Internazionale for season 1996-97 before Newcastle United manager Kenny Dalglish snapped him up for 4.3 million pounds in July 1997. He played in the losing FA Cup final against Arsenal. Though during season 1998-99 he was essentially out of action for Newcastle, this season did include a four-month loan tenure at Venezia.

He transferred to Everton and appeared in the first match of the 2000-01 season, before being beset by a year full of injuries, including a six-month layoff for a knee injury. Throughout the following season he also suffered a major injury, thus missing most of the campaign.

During the next season, however, he notched his first goal for the club against Bolton Wanderers.

Though initially his future looked bleak after David Moyes would only offer Pistone a one year contract which Pistone refused to sign but he later offered a two year contract due to a left-back crisis and having played in the vast majority of games through 2004-05, he returned to the first-team lineup for the 2005-06 season. However he soon received a cruciate knee ligament injury which ended his season prematurely.

With the Italian Under-21 national team he won in 1996 the European Under-21 Championship. He also played for Italy at the 1996 Olympics.

Pistone was released by Everton at the end of the 2006-07 season on 14 May 2007.^[1]

On Friday 31st of August it was confirmed by Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate that Pistone was having trial at the Premier League club and, as Pistone is a free agent, he could be signed after the transfer deadline, giving Southgate more time to decide. It was reported on September 9th, that Southgate had decided against offering Pistone a contract. Pistone also went on trial with Watford F.C. but could not convince Aidy Boothroyd to offer him a contract.[1]. He signed for Belgian club Mons on December 6, 2007, after a successful trial.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Alessandro Pistone career stats at Soccerbase
• FIGC (Italian)

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