Profile Giuseppe Rossi

Personal information

Full name : Giuseppe Rossi
Date of birth : 01 February , 1987
Place of birth : Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Height : 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Villarreal
Number : 22
Youth career
2000–2004 Parma
2004–2006 Manchester United
Senior career
2005–2007 Manchester United
2006 → Newcastle United (loan)
2007 → Parma (loan)
2007– Villarreal
National team :
2003 Italy U-16
2003–2004 Italy U-17
2004–2005 Italy U-18
2006–2008 Italy U-21
2008– Italy

Club career

Early career

When submitted a spot on the youth team of Parma, Rossi and his male parent transferred to Italy until Manchester United paid for his contract after he was 17. He scored a prolonged range action for Manchester United in a 3–1 win through Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.

At the commence of the 2006–07 season, Rossi transferred to Newcastle United on hire until January 1, 2007, where he was expected to gain numerous first team experience. He organised his home debut on September 24, 2006. Rossi scored his simply Newcastle objective in his first commence on October 25, 2006, against Portsmouth in a Carling Cup Third Round tie at St James' Park.

For the second half of the season, he was again let out, this time to his earlier club, Parma. Scoring nine objectives in 19 league appearances, he alleviated the club departure the threat of relegation.

Villarreal

On July 31, 2007, Manchester United confirmed Rossi had been traded to Spanish club Villarreal for an undisclosed compensation, reportedly round object £6.6 million (€10 million). However, a clause was supplemental to Rossi's Villarreal contract that sanctions Manchester United to re-purchase him at a resultant date. He scored his first objective for Villarreal on his debut against Valencia on August 26, 2007. In his second season with Villarreal, Rossi had scored 12 objectives in 30 league attainments, along with three objectives in eight Champions League appearances.


International career

Rossi has represented Italy at close to every youth crosswise from U-16 to U-21. In 2006, he was invited to a pre-World Cup training camp with the United States national team by then-coach Bruce Arena but diminished, stating his longing to play for Italy. He was summoned higher for the 2007 Euro U-21 by head omnibus Pierluigi Casiraghi. He scored four objectives at the 2008 Summer Olympics, taking in him the seal scorer for the tournament, in spite of simply coming the quarter final.

Italian national football team overseer Marcello Lippi has stated that had Rossi been fit, he would have received a call-up for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers in September 2008. Rossi was summoned higher to the Italy squad in October 2008, taking in his debut for the national team as a second half substitute against Bulgaria on October 11. Rossi scored his first objective for the Italian national team on June 6, 2009, in a friendly against Northern Ireland, at Pisa's Arena Garibaldi. He also scored couple objectives against the United States in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup on June 15, 2009, in South Africa.

Rossi was in Lippi's interim 28-man 2010 FIFA World Cup squad transmitted in May, but went incorrect to generate the cut for final 23-man squad.

On 17 November 2010, for his 18th cap for Italy, Rossi was picked by the Italian overseer, Cesare Prandelli, to become threadbare the Azzurri captain's armband for the first time frontwards of the friendly against Romania.