Angelo Peruzzi
Angelo Peruzzi 2012
Angelo Peruzzi ( born February 16, 1970 in Viterbo, Viterbo ) is an Italian former football player and current football coach.
The greatest success of his career was winning the World Cup in 2006 in Germany. In the 1990s, he won with Juventus among others, the Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup.
Peruzzi was a rather small, very athletic goalkeeper, so he had to fight during his career again with muscular problems and obesity.
- 3.1 national team
- 3.2 club
- 4.1 External links
- 4.2 Notes and references
Playing career
Association
The goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi began his career in the youth teams of AS Roma, at 14 years he was a ball boy at the finals in the European Champions Cup of AS Roma against Liverpool. In his younger years he was regarded as the greatest talent of Italian football goalkeeper.
At the age of 17 he received his first professional contract with Roma. On 13 December 1987, he gave the away match of AS Roma AC Milan his Serie A debut. Peruzzi came in to replace the goalkeeper Franco Tancredi, since this was hit by a projectile, the game was seen later with 2-0 in favor of the Romans.
For the season 1990/91 he returned to AS Roma, where he was, however, in October 1990, transferred together with team-mate Andrea Carnevale, of doping and banned for a year.
Still took him to Juventus 1991/92 season under contract, where he was goalkeeper after a short time. In the following years he won with Juve almost every conceivable titles, including in 1996, the Champions League and three Italian championships.
For the 1999/2000 season he moved to Inter Milan, but in order for the equivalent of 17.9 million euros to change a year later to Lazio Rome, where he was a regular goalkeeper until 2007.
On April 29, 2007 Peruzzi ended after the derby against AS Roma his professional career. Overall, he was elected three times to the best goalkeepers in the Serie A and once awarded the title Guerin d' Oro.
National
Angelo Peruzzi played for the U -18 and U- 21 team of his country. In 1992 he was Under-21 European Championship under coach Cesare Maldini and also took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona part where you failed in the quarterfinals. On March 25, 1995, he was 4-1 against Estonia made his debut in the senior team.
The 1996 European Championships in England denied Peruzzi than goalkeeper, but resigned with his team already in the group round. At the 1998 World Cup, he was unable to participate due to injury.
Then he lost were regular place as goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Francesco Toldo. An offer of the then national coach Dino Zoff, ride to the European Championship in 2000 as the third goalkeeper, he struck out. So Peruzzi was not considered at all between 1999 and 2004 for the national team.
Due to its good performance in Lazio coach Giovanni Trapattoni nominated him as a substitute goalkeeper for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal. Two years later, Angelo Peruzzi of Trapattoni's successor, Marcello Lippi, also nominated for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany as number 2. Peruzzi, now already 36 years old, was so on July 9, 2006 in Berlin as a substitute goalkeeper, but not been used to celebrate with the world title the greatest sporting success of his career. Later, he was highly praised for his professional attitude during the tournament from his teammates. Daniele De Rossi said: " Angelo Peruzzi [ ... ] was one of our secrets to success Only a man with great experience and character behaves as he does.. "
His last match for Italy Angelo Peruzzi denied on 8 October 2005 in a 1-0 against Slovenia.
Coaching career
On 22 October 2010 he was appointed assistant coach of the Italian U-21 national team.
Achievements
National
- U-21 European Championship: 1992
- World Champion: 2006
Association
- Champions League: 1995/96
- Champions League Runners-up: 1996/97, 1997/98
- UEFA Cup: 1992/93
- World Cup: 1996
- UEFA Super Cup: 1996
- Italian Championship: 1994/95, 1996/97, 1997/98
- Coppa Italia: 1994/95
- Italian Super Cup: 1995, 1997