Carl Valeri
Valeri playing for Australia in 2010.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Carl Valeri | ||
| Date of birth | 14 August 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Canberra, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Melbourne Victory | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001 | AIS | ||
| 2002–2004 | Internazionale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2005 | Internazionale | 0 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | → SPAL (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2005–2010 | Grosseto | 133 | (7) |
| 2010–2014 | Sassuolo | 70 | (4) |
| 2014 | Ternana | 8 | (0) |
| 2014– | Melbourne Victory | 52 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2000–2001 | Australia U17 | 13 | (1) |
| 2001–2003 | Australia U20 | 12 | (1) |
| 2004 | Australia U23 | 15 | (1) |
| 2007– | Australia | 52 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2015 |
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Carl Valeri (born 14 August 1984) is an Australian professional footballer who is the captain of Melbourne Victory. He plays for Melbourne Victory and the Australia national football team as a defensive midfielder.
Valeri is the son of former Australian National Soccer League player Walter Valeri. He is married to Whittney Canning from Gisborne, Victoria, and the couple have one daughter. He grew up in Canberra and trained at the Australian Institute of Sport on a football scholarship. He attended St Mary McKillop College in Wanniassa and later Lake Ginninderra College in Belconnen. Valeri grew up supporting A.C. Milan.
Valeri was signed as a teenager by Italian giants Inter Milan. He was loaned out to various clubs in Italy to gain further experience, including Grosseto, and both football clubs owned 50 percent of his contract from summer 2005 until June 2007 (for €20,000), when Grosseto bought all the rights by blind auction between the two clubs, for €15,000.
In January 2010 Valeri joined Sassuolo in co-ownership for Euro250,000 fee. Representing Australia in the starting 11 for the 2010 World Cup is his greatest achievement to date.
In May 2013, Valeri and his club Sassuolo finished as Serie B champions, thus securing automatic promotion to Serie A for the first time in their history.
In January 2014, struggling for game time he opted to return to Serie B with relegation battling Ternana until 30 June in hopes of saving his World Cup place with the Socceroos
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