Peruzzi in 2010
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Angelo Peruzzi | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 16 February 1970 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Blera, Viterbo, Italy | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
1986–1989 | Roma | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1989–1990 | Hellas Verona | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1990–1991 | Roma | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1991–1999 | Juventus | 208 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Internazionale | 33 | (0) | ||||||||||||
2000–2007 | Lazio | 192 | (0) | ||||||||||||
Total | 478 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
1989–1992 | Italy U-21 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||
1995–2006 | Italy | 31 | (0) | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Angelo Peruzzi, Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo peˈruttsi]; born 16 February 1970) is an Italian football coach and former goalkeeper, and a three-time winner of the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award. He is currently team manager for Lazio.
Peruzzi is regarded by pundits as one of the greatest Italian goalkeepers of all time, and as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation. Throughout his career, he played for Italian clubs Roma, Hellas Verona, Juventus, Internazionale and Lazio. He had a highly successful spell with Juventus, where he won three Serie A titles, the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, among other titles; he won a second Coppa Italia with Lazio before retiring with the club in 2007. At international level, he played 31 times for the Italy national team from his debut in 1995, and was a member of their squad which won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also represented them at the 1992 Olympics, at UEFA Euro 1996 (as a starting goalkeeper), and at Euro 2004.
Because of his stocky physique, Peruzzi was given the nicknames "Tyson" in reference to the boxer Mike Tyson's similarly powerful build, and "The Boar".