Profile Andrea Dossena

Personal information :

Full name : Andrea Dossena
Date of birth : 11 September 1981
Place of birth : Lodi, Italy
Height : 5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)
Playing position : Left Back
Current club : Napoli
Number : 8
Senior career :
2001–2005 Verona
2005–2006 Treviso
2006–2008 Udinese
2008–2010 Liverpool
2010– Napoli
National team :
2000–2001 Italy U-20
2007– Italy

Club career

Udinese

Udinese signed him in 2006 in a co-ownership with Treviso, which became permanent in June 2007. He was given the number 2 jersey and made 63 appearances in the two seasons with Udinese, scoring 22 league goals along the way. In October 2007, he was awarded an improved contract which last until 30 June 2012.

Liverpool

On 4 July 2008, Liverpool confirmed the signing of Dossena on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of £7 million, becoming the second Italian to play for the club, behind Daniele Padelli. Dossena was signed as a direct replacement for John Arne Riise who left for Roma. On July 10, 2008, it was announced that Dossena would wear the number 2 shirt. His debut for Liverpool came on 16 August in the 1–0 Premier League win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. The start to his career at Liverpool was marked by poor form and he was unsatisfied with his performances, telling The Guardian: "I am not fully happy with my level. I must now get to a high level and maintain that, but first I have to battle to win selection. I am learning all the time". Dossena reinforced that he was committed to the club and explained that he was having difficulties adjusting because the pace of English football was significantly different from what he had experienced in Serie A. Despite his largely unimpressive performances, he received more opportunities to prove himself in the first team as Fábio Aurélio, Liverpool's favoured left back, suffered an injury in late November. He lost his first team slot with Aurelio's return from injury combined with the emergence of Emiliano Insúa. He scored his first goal for Liverpool on 10 March 2009 against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League after coming on as a substitute. He scored his first goal in the Premier League four days later, on 14 March in the 4-1 victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford. He scored both goals playing as an auxiliary left-winger as a late substitute in both games. In July 2009, Dossena's number 2 shirt was given to new signing Glen Johnson and he would wear number 38 shirt for the new season.

Napoli
On 8 January 2010, Dossena signed for S.S.C. Napoli in a four year contract and he was given the number eight shirt The fee quoted was €4.25 million and Andriy Voronin left on the same day. He made his debut for Napoli on 13 January 2010 in a Coppa Italia match against Juventus. His Serie A debut for Napoli came on 17 January 2010 in the 0–0 against Palermo at the San Paolo Stadium.

International career

Dossena played for the Italy U-20 team from 2000 to 2001, earning four caps. He made his first appearance for Italy in a friendly against South Africa on 17 October 2007. Dossena won his second international cap when he came on at half-time during Italy's 2–2 draw with Austria on 20 August 2008. He scored an own goal to put Italy 3–0 down against Brazil in a Confederations Cup match on 21 June 2009.

Profile Paolo Cannavaro

Personal information :

Full name : Paolo Cannavaro
Date of birth : June 26, 1981
Place of birth : Naples, Italy
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Centre back
Current club : Napoli
Number 28
Youth career :
1996–1998 Napoli
Senior career :
1998–1999 Napoli
1999–2006 Parma
2001–2002 Verona (loan)
2006– Napoli
National team :
2002–2004 Italy U-21

Club career

Cannavaro made his professional debut for his hometown side Napoli during the 1998–99 season in Serie A, while he was 17 years old. The following season he was signed by Parma, playing alongside his older brother Fabio Cannavaro in his first season at the club. In fact Paolo's debut for Parma came when he replaced his brother as a substitute in Parma's 4–1 victory against Lecce.
Verona took the player on loan during the 2001–02 season, Cannavaro turned out 25 times for the club, scoring his first professional goal. The successive year he returned to Parma where he spent much of the time as a substitute for the following two seasons (2002–2003, 2003–2004). During the 2004–2005 season, Cannavaro became more active in the first team at Parma, making 24 appearances scoring 4 goals from defence. As Napoli were promoted back into Serie B, and were building a squad with potential, Cannavaro was brought back to his first club, where he currently remains.

International career

As a youngster, Cannavaro played for Italy under-21 national football team. He has since followed in the steps of his brother by earning a call up for the Italian national senior team on October 13, 2007 against South Africa

Profile Christian Maggio

Personal information :

Full name : Christian Maggio
Date of birth : February 11, 1982
Place of birth : Montecchio Maggiore, Italy
Height : 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Right wingback , Right winger
Current club : Napoli
Number : 11
Youth career :
1997–2000 Vicenza
Senior career :
2000–2003 Vicenza
2003–2007 Fiorentina
2006 Treviso (loan)
2006–2007 Sampdoria (loan)
2007–2008 Sampdoria
2008– Napoli
National team :
2000–2001 Italy U-18
2000–2002 Italy U-20
2002 Italy U-21
2008– Italy

Career

Vicenza

Maggio began his career at Vicenza making his Serie A debut in the 2000–2001 season, finishing the campaign with six appearances. However, despite some success on a personal level, Vicenza were subsequently relegated to Serie B at the end of the season. Maggio stayed with Vicenza until 2003, making 38 appearances in total while managing to score just 1 goal.

Fiorentina

In 2003, Maggio signed for A.C.F. Fiorentina. Maggio did not appear for Fiorentina until they were promoted from Serie B for the 2004–2005 season. Overall, Maggio played 56 games for The Viola, scoring 2 goals over a 4 year period.

Sampdoria

However, it was not until Maggio signed for Sampdoria that he began to fulfill the potential he had shown when playing for Italy at youth level. Some very impressive performances during the 2007–2008 season resulted in nine goals from twenty-nine appearances. This brought him to the attention of many clubs in Italy and Europe and after feverent speculation in the Italian media, he signed for Napoli for a fee believed to be in the region of £10 million.

Napoli

During his time at Napoli he has continued to perform consistently which resulted in him making his senior international debut against Greece on November 19, 2008. His second appearance came nearly one year later on November 18, 2009 against Sweden. As both of these matches were frienlies, he is yet to make a competitive appearance at senior level. On the 24th of January 2009 Maggio scored a wonderful volley against Livorno. He took up a position near the corner of the penalty area as a long cross-field pass descended towards him. As this raking pass came across his body from his left shoulder he volleyed it first time, with great power, over the goalkeeper and the far top corner of the net. On December 6th 2010, Maggio scored a last second goal which saw Napoli three points in a 1-0 win over Palermo in the 94th minute.

Playing position

Maggio usually functions as a right midfielder/winger for Napoli since they play in a 3-5-2 formation. However he has played at right back for the majority of his career. Former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has said that Maggio is the successor to Christian Panucci at right back. However since he started playing on the wing, his quality has improved and he is arguably better as a right winger rather than a right back considering his greatly improved attacking skills.

Profile Tommaso Rocchi

Personal information :

Full name : Tommaso Rocchi
Date of birth : September 19, 1977
Place of birth : Venice, Italy
Height : 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Lazio
Number : 9
Youth career :
1994–1996 Juventus
Senior career :
1995–1996 Juventus
1996–1997 Pro Patria
1997 Fermana
1997–1998 Saronno
1998–2000 Como
2000–2001 Treviso
2001–2004 Empoli
2004– Lazio
National team :
2006–2007 Italy
2008 Olympic Italy

Career Club

Empoli

From Treviso, Rocchi transported towards Tuscany with Empoli, also within Serie B at the time. With Empoli, Rocchi made again hundred impressions, and scored a gross of 29 goals, 16 of which arrived within Serie A, whereas Rocchi had put within a number of respectable dramas during the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. He scored a winner against Inter, onto January 18, 2004, and a week afterwards he scored a hattrick against original club Juventus within a 3–3 draw.

Lazio

Rocchi's former goal of the championship for Lazio arrived onto 22 September 2004 against Brescia at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti within a 2–0 win. His finest individial operation of the season was a hattrick against Lecce,[5] and Rocchi ended a successful debut season with 13 goals within 35 league appearances. He also scored twice within the UEFA Cup, his former impression within European competition. Most considerably however, Rocchi scored the third goal within a 3–1 Derby della Capitale victory, the former of these conflicts within which he played. It was during this moment that Rocchi began towards grow a partnership with teammate Paolo Di Canio. Often designing assists for each else, Rocchi and Di Canio had a nice correlation both onto and off the field. Di Canio deserted Lazio within 2006, deserting Rocchi as the principal star striker at the club. Rocchi also had a powerful partnership with Macedonian forward Goran Pandev. Often Pandev would play within the hollow rear Rocchi, but they were also able towards play up front together with a central attacking midfielder behind. Between them, they were Lazio's top goalscorers for three seasons consecutively. A positive 2005–06 season observed Rocchi score a personal greatest 16 league goals as Lazio ceased sixth, a site which was afterwards robbed away from them due towards the Calciopoli scandal. At former relegation towards Serie B was the verdict, but Lazio were soon reinstated towards the top flight. Beginning the 2006–07 season with an eleven-point deduction, a relegation battle appeared onto the cards for Lazio, and a slow activate did nothing towards assistance the situation. However, the team's form soon sweetened, and the deduction was decimated towards three, making a tilt at a UEFA Champions League site an unlikely yet possible goal. Rocchi backed up his 16 goal pull yet again, as Lazio ceased third and experienced for Europe's premier club competition. The 2007–08 season observed Rocchi earn his personal debut within the UEFA Champions League, whereas he scored a crucial successful goal against Werder Bremen. This season he ended the campaign with 14 Serie A goals. He spent much of the year as captain of Lazio, deputizing for the often stung Luciano Zauri. On February twenty, 2008, Rocchi redeveloped his contract, extending the import via five years. This contract extension would operate until 2013, and effectively ensure Rocchi would remain at the club for the remainder of his career.[8] On March 19, 2008, Rocchi scored his fourth goal within the Derby della Capitale within a 3–2 victory against A.S. Roma. From a personal perspective, 2008–09 was a destitute season for Rocchi.

After lacking the former two months of the season due towards an sting suffered whilst onto international obligation at the 2008 Beijing Games, Rocchi never reached his habitual goalscoring form, ceasing with just 9 for the season; his lowest tally within six years. However, the club won their fifth Coppa Italia title, defeating Sampdoria within a disadvantage shootout. Rocchi suffered the indignity of being the alone Lazio musician towards fail towards convert his dot kick. This season was also his former as the official team captain, as soon as the exodus of Zauri towards Fiorentina. Rocchi obtains the Coppa Italia prize from Giorgio Napolitano. At the end of the 2008–09 season, having made again 200 impressions within the Lazio shirt, and having scored 83 goals, Rocchi declared his target was towards collaborate an exclusive list of musicians towards possess scored hundred goals for the club. This mark had alone previously been reached via four musicians, Silvio Piola, Giuseppe Signori, Bruno Giordano and Giorgio Chinaglia. Rocchi decided towards distort his number 18 shirt for the number 9, which had previously been worn via everybody of those four, aside from Signori.

International career

Rocchi has portrayed Italy at youth grade numerous times.
In August 2006, consecutive Italy's fourth FIFA World Cup title, novel Azzurri boss Roberto Donadoni branded Rocchi up towards the squad as a award for his unheard of scoring file within Serie A. He made his debut against Croatia within the 2–0 loss at 29 years of age. Rocchi performed two many fits for the national team onto the route towards Euro 2008 but did not earn the squad for the final tournament. He was appointed as the alone overage musician within Pierluigi Casiraghi's Olympic team towards play at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He scored against South Korea onto August 10 . He has obtained the calcionado (awarded for Serie A's excellent player) onto two occasions, within 2004 and 2007

Profile Stefano Mauri

Personal information :

Full name : Stefano Mauri
Date of birth : January 8, 1980
Place of birth : Monza, Italy
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Attacking midfielder
Current club : Lazio
Number : 6
Youth career :
Brugherio
Senior career :
1998–2001 Meda
2001–2003 Modena
2003–2004 Brescia
2004–2006 Udinese
2006– Lazio
National team :
2004– Italy

Club career

Mauri activated his career at 16 years of age with Brugherio. Two years afterwards he transported towards Meda, whereas he spent three years between Serie C2 and Serie D. In 2001, he attended Modena, and within September 2002, he made his Serie A debut within a 3–0 loss towards Milan. With the gialloblù, Mauri spent two nice seasons ahead of transporting onto towards Brescia. Here he performed another nice season presences with thirty impressions and seven goals. In 2004, he attended Udinese onto a co-ownership deal. He spent two seasons at the Stadio Friuli, yet forgotten his site as a frequent starter within the second season. In 2006, Mauri transported south towards Rome whereas he attended Lazio. He made his Biancoceleste debut within a Coppa Italia match against Inter and persisted towards establish himself as a frequent, becoming a key musician within a tall flying Lazio team. Manager Delio Rossi began towards consume him as a trequartista, rear Goran Pandev and Tommaso Rocchi, and he persisted towards gleam, being a protagonist within Lazio's qualification for the UEFA Champions League.

International career

Mauri made his international debut within November 2004 against Finland, and currently has ten caps towards his name. He has not been appointed as portion of a squad for any principal tournaments and has never portrayed Italy at youth level. Mauri has been branded up towards the national team for the Euro 2012 qulifiers against Northern Ireland and Sebia as soon as his great form and SS Lazio impressive activate towards Serie A. He has since been a frequent within the national team below Prandelli and his Lazio nice form has persisted across the Italy Vs Germany match within Feb.

Profile Cristian Ledesma

Personal information :

Full name : Cristian Daniel Ledesma
Date of birth : September 24, 1982
Place of birth : Moron, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height : 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position : Central Midfielder
Current club : Lazio
Number : 24
Youth career :
1997-2001 Boca Juniors
Senior career :
2001-2006 Lecce
2006– Lazio
National team :
2010– Italy

Career

He spent his childhood within Puerto Madryn, within the province of Chubut, Argentina. He attended the youth system of top Argentine club Boca Juniors.

Lecce

In 2001 he was noticed via Lecce, whose sports manager Pantaleo Corvino decided towards fetch Ledesma towards Salento, whereas he immediately became a frequent within the team. At Lecce, despite being young, he was captain until November 2005.

Lazio

In July 2006, Roman club Lazio signed Ledesma, as soon as Lecce were relegated towards Serie B. With Lazio, Ledesma signed a contract that quality 450,000 euro per season until 2011. Ledesma's former year within the capital, the 2006–07 season, observed him establish himself as a key musician despite a difficult start. His former moment of magic, arrived within the December 2006 Derby della Capitale against historical rivals AS Roma, when he scored a rocket of a knock from 25 metres out. He persisted this nice form until the end of the season, via which moment Lazio had experienced for the UEFA Champions League. He successively served as vice-captain, and was a protagonist within Lazio's successful Coppa Italia 2008–09 campaign. On July 2009, with his contract predetermined towards expire onto June 2010, Ledesma was barred from the former team due towards arguments with club chiefs Claudio Lotito and did not play any competitive toys during the complete former halves of the 2009–10 season. This ruled the musician towards formally ask the Lega Calcio arbitration committee for a contract termination due towards offence of its terms, alone a few weeks as soon as teammate Goran Pandev had robbed the equivalent perfect action. This was however refused onto January 26, 2010 onto the grounds that Ledesma was occasionally embroiled within former team activities. After being associated with a move towards Inter, he eventually visited Lazio and, immediately as soon as the substitute of brain instructor Davide Ballardini with veteran executive Edoardo Reja, he made his 2009–10 season debut onto February 14, being featured within the activating lineup within a 2–0 victory at Parma. Since his replace onto the pitch, Ledesma immediately established himself back into being a key musician for the biancazzurri. On August 23, Ledesma signed a novel contract with Lazio, tying him towards the club for another five years (until 2015). In his 2010–11 campaign, he was the one of the protagonist of Lazio's surprising activate that ruled the Rome club towards even top the Serie A list for a few weeks between October and November.

International career

Argentine-born Ledesma acquired Italian citizenship within 2008 across marriage towards an Italian woman he met during his spell at Lecce; this made him eligible at international grade for both Argentina and the Azzurri, as he had never been capped with the Selección before.On 14 November 2010 Ledesma agreed a call-up via Italy executive Cesare Prandelli for a friendly match against Romania, hence becoming the third oriundo towards become portion of the Azzurri senior squad within the last ten years, the else two being Mauro Camoranesi and Amauri.

Profile Fernando Néstor Muslera

Personal information :

Full name : Fernando Néstor Muslera Micol
Date of birth : 16 June 1986
Place of birth : Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height : 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Current club : Lazio
Number : 86
Youth career :
–2004 Montevideo Wanderers
Senior career :
2004–2007 Montevideo Wanderers
2006–2007 Nacional (loan)
2007– Lazio
National team :
2009– Uruguay

Club career

Uruguay

Muslera started his professional football career with Montevideo Wanderers in 2004, having come through the club's youth system. After impressive performances for Wanderers, giants Nacional opted to take him on loan in 2006. Despite only playing at Nacional for a short time, Muslera's performances saw him linked with some of Europe's biggest clubs such as Benfica, Juventus, Lazio and Arsenal.

Lazio

Muslera joined Lazio at the close of the 2007 summer transfer window for €3 million as a replacement for the retired Angelo Peruzzi and after plans to sign Juan Pablo Carrizo were delayed due to the non-EU status of the Argentine. Muslera was signed by the Roman side to become the new first choice goalkeeper ahead of veteran Marco Ballotta. Muslera made his debut for Lazio in a 3–1 home win against Cagliari on 16 September 2007, and made four more consecutive starts, the last which was a disastrous performance in Lazio's 1–5 home loss to Milan on 7 October, a match in which he was at fault on four of the five goals Lazio conceded. That result saw him benched in favour of 44-year-old Marco Ballotta. Muslera remained as the second choice for the remainder of the season, making only four more league appearances and none in the UEFA Champions League. He did however play all of Lazio's remaining Coppa Italia matches, putting in good performances. Muslera started as second-choice keeper for the 2008–09 season behind new signing Juan Pablo Carrizo but regained the starting spot in January 2009 following a run of poor form by Carrizo, coupled with conflicts with team management. Muslera's first starting appearance in the league this season saw him make several saves in a 3–1 loss to Sampdoria, including blocking an Antonio Cassano penalty. Further impressive performances in away wins over Napoli and Genoa, as well as in his first ever Derby della Capitale, saw Muslera regain a considerable amount of faith he had lost the previous season. Known to the Lazio fans as castorino, or the "little beaver", Muslera was also an integral part of the club's successful Coppa Italia campaign, making decisive saves against Milan and Juventus as Lazio reached the final for the first time in five seasons. In the final on May 13, 2009, Muslera saved two penalties as Lazio emerged victorious 6–5 in the shootout after the match ended 1–1 in extra time. The Uruguayan's impressive season saw him cement his position as the Roman club's first choice in the 2009–10 season, despite the arrival of Argentine keeper Albano Bizzarri on a free transfer. Muslera played in goal as Lazio opened the season with a 2–1 win over Inter in the 2009 Supercoppa Italiana, played in Beijing.

International career

Muslera had been called up for the Uruguayan national team on numerous occasions, but did not earn his first cap until October 10, 2009, when he started in Uruguay's 2–1 away win over Ecuador. The match was Uruguay's penultimate qualifier for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He made his FIFA World Cup debut against France on June 11th, 2010, Uruguay's opening game of the tournament and the second game on the opening day of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He kept a clean sheet during all 3 of Uruguay's group matches (0–0 against France, 3–0 against South Africa, and 1–0 against Mexico). Muslera was decisive in the quarterfinal match against Ghana, when he saved two penalties at the penalty shootout. On August 11, 2010 he played in a friendly match against Angola in Lisbon, Portugal. Uruguay won 2-0.