Profile Alessandro Matri

Personal information

Full name : Alessando Matri
Date of birth : 19 August 1984
Place of birth : Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy
Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Juventus
Number : 32
Youth career :
Fanfulla
1996–2004 Milan
Senior career :
2003–2007 Milan
2004–2005 → Prato (loan)
2005–2006 → Lumezzane (loan)
2006–2007 → Rimini (loan)
2007– Cagliari
2011– → Juventus (loan)
National :
Italia

Club career

Milan

Born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Matri began his career at A.C. Milan (30 km away from Sant'Angelo Lodigiano) and played his first Serie A suit as a starter on 24 May 2003, the 3rd final suit of the season ago the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final and 2003 Coppa Italia Final. The suit Piacenza Calcio was won via Milan 4–2, as Milan rested nearly all the regular starters. Matri did not score in that suit, partnered with Michele Piccolo and displaced via Roberto Bortolotto in the 71st minute. In the following season, he played all the time at Primavera (U20) Team and has not played in the first team. In the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons, he retired on lend to Prato (along with Piccolo) and Lumezzane, played 64 Serie C1 matches.
In 2006–07 season, he retired for Rimini along with Digão.

Cagliari

In June 2007, as fraction of David Suazo's sell to Milan, he retired for Cagliari in co-ownership deal. (Suazo finally stringed city rival Internazionale). He partnered with Robert Acquafresca, which Internazionale sent him to the Sardinia as fraction of Suazo's deal. The young strikers scored 16 targets for the team, forward midfielder Pasquale Foggia and Daniele Conti (both 5 goals). Their replenishment, Jeda and Larrivey, scored three targets in half season and 1 target in full season respectively. In June 2008, Cagliari purchased another half of the player's booking rights.
In the following season, Matri became the 3rd option, as Jeda and Acquafresca netted more goals. But he also scored six targets in 31 suits, but merely 11 of them as starter. After the exit of Acquafresca, Matri became the beginning pair along with Jeda, with fresh signing Nenê, the 2008–09 Portuguese Liga top-scorer, played as substitute. He is the team top-scorer, having scored 12 league targets, forward Nenê (7 goals) and Jeda (6 goals). At the begin of the 2010–11 Serie A season he was re-united with Acquafresca as he re-joined Cagliari. Matri, Acquafresca and Nenê scored 11 targets in 22 sport, three target in 21 game (only 11 starts) and 4 times in twenty sport (14 starts) in the league respectively ago Matri's departure.

Juventus

On 31 January 2011, in the final hours of the January transfer window, Matri shifted to Juventus until the end of the season in lend sell that saw the remaining half of Lorenzo Ariaudo's booking rights, value €2.5 million, being bought to Cagliari; Juventus shall also have an option to permanently incur the actor at the end of the season for €15.5 million in three installments. The acquisition was a consequence of Juventus' attacking vacancies caused via a out-of-season injury to Fabio Quagliarella and the lend of Amauri to Parma. Matri prepared his Juventus debut merely pair days subsequent, playing in a league game against Palermo, ended in a 2–1 win for the Sicilian opponents. On 5 February 2011 Matri scored his first pair targets for Juventus on his return to Cagliari, as shortly as he latched onto a Krasić exceed and drove into the near corner for the first, and volleyed again for the second, selecting not to celebrate on both occasions. Matri scored his third target for Juventus in the classic Derby d'Italia, scoring a header and defeating Inter 1-0.

International career

Alessandro Matri earned his first call upward for the Italian National team for a friendly suit against Germany that took position on February 9, 2011. However, Matri did not character in the match.