Matteo Ferrari
Ferrari with the Montreal Impact in 2013
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| Full name | Matteo Ferrari | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1979 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aflou, Algeria | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | SPAL | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Internazionale | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Genoa | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Lecce | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Internazionale | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | → Bari (loan) | 26 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Parma | 81 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Roma | 78 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | → Everton (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Genoa | 33 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Beşiktaş | 46 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Montreal Impact | 81 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 388 | (6) | |||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Italy U21 | 27 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Italy Olympic | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Italy | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 September 2014 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 May 2004 (UTC) |
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Matteo Ferrari (born 5 December 1979) is an Italian footballer, who last played as a defender for the Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer. He has also played top-flight football for several Italian clubs in Serie A, and Everton of the Premier League; he is usually deployed as a centre back, although he is capable of playing anywhere along the back-line.
Ferrari played for Italy at the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004, winning Bronze at the latter edition of the tournament. He also made 11 full international appearances for his country between 2002 and 2004, featuring in the Italian squad that took part at Euro 2004.
Matteo Ferrari is the Algeria-born son of an Italian petroleum engineer and a mother originally from Guinea. His father worked in various countries throughout Africa because of his vocation. His father died in 1993 when Matteo was 14.
He grew up in Ferrara and has a brother who was a football player. Ferrari and Venezuelan model Aída Yéspica re-united in December 2009. They have a son named Aron, born in 2008.
Ferrari started his career at SPAL in 1995, and he can play as left-back or centreback. It has all the rigmarole of youth teams, from young students: the coach of the time, Luigi Pasetti, employed him as a central striker and the player scored 37 goals in the league before switching back to defense. F.C. Internazionale Milano brought him to their youth system, later farming him to Genoa C.F.C. (in co-ownership),U.S. Lecce (in co-ownership) and A.S. Bari (loan).
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