Paolo Montero
Paolo Montero 2010
Ronald Paolo Montero Iglesias ( born September 3, 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay ) is a former Uruguayan football player. His main position was central defender.
Career
Association
Paolo Montero, the son of Julio Montero Castillo, his professional career began at Peñarol Montevideo in Uruguay, where he played until 1992. By the end of 1991 it was known that he would leave the club as of June 1992. After differences with coach Ricardo Ortíz he was thrown in December of that year from the squad. In the summer of 1992 he moved to Atalanta in the Italian Serie A, where he made his debut on September 8, 1992. Due to his strong performances he was obliged in 1996 by Juventus. There he played for nine years at the highest level, and together with Ciro Ferrara in the late 1990s one of the best interior defenses in the world. In summer 2005, he moved back to South America to the Argentine club San Lorenzo. As his former teammate in June 2006 made a suicide attempt at Juve and good friend Gianluca Pessotto, Montero immediately flew to Europe to visit him and he remained in Turin until this was after several weeks out of danger. From 2006 to 2007 he was playing at his home club Peñarol in Montevideo, after Montero ended his active career.
In his highly successful career, he won with Juventus five Italian championships, three Italian Super Cups, one European Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one UEFA Intertoto Cup.
Paolo Montero holds the record for most dismissals in Serie A. A total of 16 times he was expelled in his 266 games in Italy's top tier of the field. In the ranking followed with Luigi Di Biagio and Giulio Falcone two players who brought it to twelve restraining orders.
National
Montero took the Uruguayan U -20 team at the U-20 South American Championship in 1991 and finished with the team's third tournament rank. In the same year he played with the Celeste also the Junior World Cup in 1991, when he retired but already with the team in the group stage. He made his debut on 5 May in 1991 at 0-1 against the United States in the senior national team and played a total of 61 caps, in which five goals reach him. With Uruguay, he participated in the World Cup 2002. He led his team captained by qualifying for the World Cup 2006 and the play-off game against Australia. In this game, Montero had to be replaced due to injury, and his team finally retired in the penalty shoot- out. Then he said after 61 completed internationals, in which he scored five goals, his retirement from the national team.
Achievements
- Italian Champion: 1996/97, 1997/98, 2001/ 02, 2002/ 03, 2004 / 05 *
- World Cup winner: 1996
- UEFA Super Cup winner: 1996
- Italian Super Cup winner: 1997, 2002, 2003
- UEFA Intertoto Cup winners: 1999
* Disallowed under the Italian football scandal 2005/2006