Federico Balzaretti
Balzaretti playing for Italy at the UEFA Euro 2012
|
|||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Federico Balzaretti | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 December 1981 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Turin, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Full-back | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| Torino | |||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2005 | Torino | 94 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | → Varese (loan) | 44 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | → Siena (loan) | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Juventus | 57 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Fiorentina | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Palermo | 143 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Roma | 39 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Italy U20 | 23 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Italy U21 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Italy | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||
|
Honours
|
|||||||||||||||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 May 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2013 |
|||||||||||||||
Federico Balzaretti (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriko baldzaˈretti]; born 6 December 1981) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a left-sided full-back.
A product of the Torino youth system, his first experience as a professional footballer was on loan to Varese and Siena, returning to Turin to play a year in Serie A and two in Serie B. Later he moved to Juventus, playing a year in Serie A and the Champions League and winning the Scudetto, later revoked for the events of Calciopoli and the next season in the lower division that ended in promotion. Sold to Fiorentina in 2007, after half a season he moved to Palermo, with whom he played in the Europa League. In 2010, he was called up to the Italian national team and took part in the 2012 UEFA European Championships, where Italy lost the final against Spain. The same summer, he moved to Roma. After struggling with injuries, on 12 August 2015 he announced his retirement from football after having made a total of 221 appearances and scored 4 goals in Serie A and 130 appearances and 3 goals in Serie B.
Federico began his playing career at the age of 6 for hometown club Torino, playing in the various youth teams. He soon gained a reputation as an athletic wing-back with enormous potential, and was soon loaned out to provincial sides Varese and Siena between 1999-2002. A local, Federico identified with the supporters and shortly became a symbol for Torino supporters, kissing the badge under the curva at the end of games.
...
Wikipedia