Giuseppe Rossi
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Giuseppe Rossi | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | 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 | 5 | (1) |
2006 | → Newcastle United (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2007 | → Parma (loan) | 19 | (9) |
2007– | Villarreal | 128 | (51) |
International career‡ | |||
2003 | Italy U16 | 5 | (3) |
2003–2004 | Italy U17 | 14 | (6) |
2004–2005 | Italy U18 | 3 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Italy U21 | 16 | (5) |
2008 | Olympic Italy | 6 | (6) |
2008– | Italy | 24 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 August 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2011 |
Giuseppe Rossi (born 1 February 1987) is an American-born Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Villarreal CF and the Italian national team. He holds dual Italian and American citizenship.
Early life
Rossi was born to Italian immigrant parents in Teaneck, New Jersey; his father, Fernando Rossi, coached soccer and taught Italian and Spanish at Clifton High School. His mother, Cleonilde Rossi, was also a language teacher at Clifton.[1] At age 12, he moved to Parma, Italy with his father to begin his youth career at malleParma.
Club career
Early career
When offered a spot on the youth team of Parma, Rossi (then 12) and his father moved to Italy until Manchester United bought his contract when he was 17.[2] He scored his only Premier League goal with a long range effort in a 3–1 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.[3]
At the start of the 2006–07 season, Rossi moved to Newcastle United on loan until January 1, 2007, where he was expected to gain some first team experience. He made his home debut on September 24, 2006.[4] Rossi scored his only Newcastle goal in his first start on October 25, 2006, against Portsmouth in a Carling Cup Third Round tie at St James' Park.[5]
For the second half of the season, he was again loaned out, this time to his former club, Parma.[6] Scoring nine goals in 19 league appearances,[7] he helped the club escape the threat of relegation.
Villarreal
On July 31, 2007, Manchester United confirmed Rossi had been sold to Spanish club Villarreal CF for an undisclosed fee, reportedly around £6.6 million (€10 million).[8][9] He scored his first goal for Villarreal on his debut against Valencia on August 26, 2007.[10] In his second season with Villarreal, Rossi had scored 12 goals in 30 league appearances, along with three goals in eight Champions League appearances.[11] In January, 2011, he signed a contract extension with Villarreal until 2016.[12] The 2010–11 season proved to be his breakthrough season, as he scored 32 goals in 56 appearances in all competitions.
International career
Rossi has represented Italy at almost every youth level from U-16 to U-21. In 2006, he 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 was called up for the 2007 Euro U-21 by head coach Pierluigi Casiraghi. He scored four goals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, making him the top scorer for the tournament, despite only reaching the quarter-final.
Italian national football team manager Marcello Lippi has stated that had Rossi been fit, he would have received a call-up for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers in September 2008.[13] Rossi 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 October 11. Rossi scored his first goal for the Italian national team on June 6, 2009, in a friendly against Northern Ireland, at Pisa's Arena Garibaldi.[14] He also scored two goals against the United States in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup on June 15, 2009, in South Africa.[15]
Rossi was in Lippi's provisional 28-man 2010 FIFA World Cup squad announced in May,[16] but failed to make the cut for final 23-man squad.[17]
On 17 November 2010, for his 18th cap for Italy, Rossi was picked by Italian manager Cesare Prandelli to wear the Azzurri captain's armband for the first time ahead of the friendly against Romania.[18]
International goals
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 6 June 2009 | Arena Garibaldi, Pisa, Italy | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
2. | 15 June 2009 | Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–3 | 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup |
3. | 1–3 | |||||
4. | 9 February 2011 | Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
5. | 29 March 2011 | Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine | ![]() |
0–1 | 0–2 | Friendly |
6. | 3 June 2011 | Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena, Italy | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–0 | Euro 2012 qualifying |
Club statistics
Club | Season. | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||||||
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Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | ||
Manchester United | 2004–05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
2005–06 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | |
Total | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | |
Newcastle United (loan) | 2006–07 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 13 | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | |
Parma (loan) | 2006–07 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 4 | ||
Total | 19 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 4 | |||
Villarreal | 2007–08 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | 5 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 13 | 4 | ||
2008–09 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 15 | 8 | |||
2009–10 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | 8 | 5 | 1 | 46 | 17 | 4 | |||
2010–11 | 36 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | – | 15 | 11 | 4 | 56 | 32 | 10 | |||
2011–12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
Total | 128 | 51 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 1 | – | 38 | 21 | 8 | 181 | 79 | 27 | |||
Total | 163 | 61 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 21 | 8 | 228 | 93 | 35 |
Honours
Club
- Manchester United
Individual
- Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year (1): 2004–05
- Denzil Haroun Reserve Team Player of the Year (1): 2005–06
- Olympic Golden Boot: 2008
References
- ^ Longman, Jeré (June 9, 2009). "Young Soccer Star Is Close to Completing His Italian Dream". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ^ Canales, Andrea (November 30, 2005). "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". ESPNsoccernet. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ "Sunderland 1-3 Man Utd". BBC Sport. October 15, 2005. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ Hughes, Ian (September 20, 2006). "Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle". BBC Sport. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ "Newcastle 3-0 Portsmouth". BBC Sport. October 25, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ "Man Utd agree Parma loan deal for Rossi". ESPN. January 18, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ "Giuseppe Rossi". ESPN. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ Ben Hibbs (July 7, 2007). "Rossi to join Villarreal". Manchester United. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
- ^ "El Villarreal ficha al delantero Giuseppe Rossi" (in Spanish). Villarreal CF. July 31, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
- ^ "Barcelona held by ten-man Racing". UEFA. August 26, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ Giuseppe Rossi Football Stats
- ^ MacDonald, Paul (January 25, 2011). "Official: Villarreal Striker Giuseppe Rossi Signs Contract Extension Until 2016. However Rossi is has been subject to a move to Tottenham Hotspur, and a fee has been agreed on deadline day" (Document). goal.com.
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- ^ BBC (June 6, 2009). "Italy 3-0 Northern Ireland". BBC News. BBC News. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ "USA 1-3 Italy". BBC Sport. 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Grosso misses out for Italy". Sky Sports. 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
- ^ "Pronta la squadra azzurra: ecco la lista dei 23 per il Mondiale". FIGC (in Italian). 1 June 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ^ "Giuseppe Rossi to captain Italy". 2010-11-17.
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- Olympic footballers of Italy
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- People from Teaneck, New Jersey
- American people of Italian descent
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- Newcastle United F.C. players
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