Carl Valeri

Carl Valeri ( born August 14, 1984 in Canberra) is an Australian football player. The national player spent his previous professional career exclusively in clubs in Italy.

Club career

Valeri moved together with his compatriot Nathan Coe 2002 Italian giants Inter Milan after both were elected at the U- 17 World Cup in 2001 All- Star team. After the end of his youth, it did not succeed to prevail in Inter's first team and was awarded for the 2004/ 05 season in the Serie C1 at SPAL. Under coach Massimiliano Allegri Valeri came after a difficult start in 25 games on the use and the following season he followed Allegri to U.S. Grosseto, after the club secured 50 % of the transfer rights to Valeri.

2007 Grosseto rose for the first time in club history in Serie B, on, Valeri met on the final day the decisive 1-0 winner against Calcio Padova, which meant the championship and the direct ascent. Subsequently, Grosseto, the complete transfer rights secured in a secret auction on defensive midfielder. Two years later, Grosseto failed in the climb to the Serie A matches in the semifinal, after a 2-0 first-leg win the return match against AS Livorno was later promoted team still lost with 1:4. Valeri expressed publicly in April 2009 its exchange intentions, but despite the failure in the rise of games came about no change of club. In January 2010 he moved to U.S. Sassuolo Calcio.

National

Valeri went through all the junior national team of Australia. With the U- 17 team in 2001, he took part in the U- 17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago and reached there under coach Ange Postecoglou the quarter-finals, where they lost to Nigeria 1:5. Two years later, he took part with the U- 20 at the Junior World Championships in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates and took in the preliminary round group after victories over Brazil and Canada, and a draw against the Czech Republic the first rank. In the next round against the hosts Valeri was missing due to suspension and could not take part in the 0-1 defeat.

In 2004 he qualified with the Olympic team for the Olympic football tournament in Greece. During the tournament, Valeri formed with Tim Cahill and Luke Wilkshire the middle of the Olyroos, after 2nd place in group stage they failed because of the surprise team of Iraq 0-1 in the quarterfinals.

On March 24, 2007 Valeri debuted together with Shane Stefanutto under coach Graham Arnold in a friendly match against China in the Australian national team, having previously participated several times at training camp for the national team. Just three months later he was in the first participation of Australia at the Asian Cup squad, came during the tournament as a replacement for Vince Grella but not used. As a result, Valeri cemented his place in the team, favored by injury problems of Grella, and came in the successful qualification for the 2010 World Cup to eleven missions.