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Giuseppe Rossi
Personal information
Full name Giuseppe Rossi
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Second striker
Team information
Current team
 Villarreal
Number 22
Youth career
2000–2004 Parma
2004–2006 Manchester United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2007 Manchester United
2006 → Newcastle United (loan)
2007 → Parma (loan)
2007– Villarreal
International career‡
2003 Italy U-16
2003–2004 Italy U-17
2004–2005 Italy U-18
2006–2008 Italy U-21
2008– Italy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 21, 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of February 10, 2009

Giuseppe Rossi (born February 1, 1987) is an association football player. He plays for the Spanish La Liga club Villarreal as a second striker. Rossi was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States and has dual United States and Italian citizenship; he made his international debut for Italy in October 2008.

Early life

Rossi is an Italian American born to Italian immigrants to the United States in Teaneck, New Jersey: his father, Ferdinando Rossi, is a former soccer coach at Clifton High School and his mother, Cleonilde Rossi, is currently an Italian teacher at Clifton High School.

Club career

Early career

When offered a spot on the youth team of Parma, Rossi and his father moved to Italy until Manchester United bought his contract when he was 17.[1] There, he enjoyed prolific form in the Youth and Reserve teams but had limited opportunities with the senior side, although he often impressed whenever he made an appearance in cup games.[citation needed] He scored a long range effort for Manchester United in a 3–1 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.[2]

At the start of the 2006–07 season, Rossi moved to Newcastle United on loan until 1 January 2007, where he was expected to gain some first team experience. He made his home debut on 24 September 2006,[3] impressing all, and showing his quick feet with a barrage of snap shots. Rossi scored his only Newcastle goal on his first start on 25 October 2006 against Portsmouth in a Carling Cup 3rd Round tie at St James' Park.[4]

For the second half of the season, he was again loaned out, this time to his former club, Parma,[5] in a far more successful move. Scoring 9 goals in 19 league appearances,[6] he helped the club escape the threat of relegation and proved many of his qualities. Because of this, and his desire to play regularly, Rossi was linked to a host of clubs throughout Europe.

Villarreal

On 31 July 2007, Manchester United confirmed Rossi had been sold to Spanish club Villarreal for an undisclosed fee, reportedly around £6.6 million (€10 million).[7][8] However, a clause was added to Rossi's Villarreal contract that allows Manchester United to re-purchase him at a later date.[9] He scored his first goal for Villarreal on his debut against Valencia on 26 August 2007.[10]

International career

In 2006, Rossi was invited to a pre-World Cup training camp with the United States national team by then-coach Bruce Arena but declined, stating his desire to play for Italy. He has represented Italy at almost every youth level from U-16 to U-21. He was called up for the 2007 Euro U-21 by head coach Pierluigi Casiraghi. He scored 4 goals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, making him the top scorer for the tournament, despite only reaching the quarter final.

Italy national football team manager Marcello Lippi has stated that should Rossi have been fit, he would have received a call-up for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers in September 2008.[11] Finally he was called up to the Italy squad in October 2008, making his debut for the national team as a second half substitute against Bulgaria on 11 October.

Honours

Manchester United

References

  1. ^ Andrea Canales (2005-11-30). "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". Canales. ESPNsoccernet. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
  2. ^ "Sunderland 1-3 Man Utd". BBC Sport. 2005-10-15. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  3. ^ Hughes, Ian (2006-09-20). "Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  4. ^ "Newcastle 3-0 Portsmouth". BBC Sport. 2006-10-25. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  5. ^ "Man Utd agree Parma loan deal for Rossi". ESPN. 2007-01-18. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  6. ^ "Giuseppe Rossi". ESPN. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  7. ^ Ben Hibbs (2007-07-31). "Rossi to join Villarreal". Manchester United. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  8. ^ "El Villarreal ficha al delantero Giuseppe Rossi" (in Spanish). Villarreal CF. 2007-07-31. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  9. ^ "Man Utd sell Rossi to Villarreal". BBC.co.uk. 2007-08-01. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  10. ^ "Barcelona held by ten-man Racing". UEFA. 2007-08-26. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  11. ^ Alessandra Gozzini (2008-09-02). "Lippi: "Un'altra Berlino? Dipende anche da Cipro"". Gozzini (in Italian). Gazzetta.it. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
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