Luciano Zauri

Luciano Zauri ( born January 20, 1978 in Pescina (AQ ), Italy) is an Italian football player who since 2013 in Pescara Calcio in Serie B.

Club career

Luciano Zauri debut for Atalanta in May 1997 in the Italian Serie A. For the next season he was awarded for one year to the second division side AC Chievo Verona and then returned back to Bergamo, which descended in this season from Serie A. Zauri already developed with 20 years for regular at Bergamo and was able to celebrate the re- promotion to Serie A in the 1999/2000 season. He was true to his youth club to the 2002/03 season loyal, when the club relegated from Serie A again. For estimated six million euros Zauri joined the capital club Lazio Rome, where he was able to fight for a solid starting place after two years. Already in his first season with Lazio, he won the Coppa Italia his only previous major title. As of January 2007, when the former captain Massimo Oddo moved to AC Milan, Luciano Zauri was captain of the Biancocelesti. In 2008 he moved for 3.2 million euro transfer fee to the league rivals Fiorentina. From 2009 to 2011, he had been on loan at Premier League rivals Sampdoria.

National

Zauri made ​​his debut in the senior national team of Italy on 5 September 2001 in a friendly match against Morocco. Until his last international match in November 2002, he came to a total of five international appearances. Even then he was still called several times in the national squad, but was no longer used.

Achievements

• Italian Cup winners: 2004

Trivia

In January 2013 Zauri came into the focus of the media, as a seven- year-old girl he saved her life during a restaurant visit to Rome. The girl had fallen after using the toilet into an only temporarily covered, four -meter-deep water bay. Zauri organized a rope and pulled the child out of the bay. Moreover, it turned out that this acted to the granddaughter of the famous Polish football player Zbigniew Boniek.