Profile Tommaso Rocchi

Personal information :

Full name : Tommaso Rocchi
Date of birth : September 19, 1977
Place of birth : Venice, Italy
Height : 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Lazio
Number : 9
Youth career :
1994–1996 Juventus
Senior career :
1995–1996 Juventus
1996–1997 Pro Patria
1997 Fermana
1997–1998 Saronno
1998–2000 Como
2000–2001 Treviso
2001–2004 Empoli
2004– Lazio
National team :
2006–2007 Italy
2008 Olympic Italy

Career Club

Empoli

From Treviso, Rocchi transported towards Tuscany with Empoli, also within Serie B at the time. With Empoli, Rocchi made again hundred impressions, and scored a gross of 29 goals, 16 of which arrived within Serie A, whereas Rocchi had put within a number of respectable dramas during the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. He scored a winner against Inter, onto January 18, 2004, and a week afterwards he scored a hattrick against original club Juventus within a 3–3 draw.

Lazio

Rocchi's former goal of the championship for Lazio arrived onto 22 September 2004 against Brescia at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti within a 2–0 win. His finest individial operation of the season was a hattrick against Lecce,[5] and Rocchi ended a successful debut season with 13 goals within 35 league appearances. He also scored twice within the UEFA Cup, his former impression within European competition. Most considerably however, Rocchi scored the third goal within a 3–1 Derby della Capitale victory, the former of these conflicts within which he played. It was during this moment that Rocchi began towards grow a partnership with teammate Paolo Di Canio. Often designing assists for each else, Rocchi and Di Canio had a nice correlation both onto and off the field. Di Canio deserted Lazio within 2006, deserting Rocchi as the principal star striker at the club. Rocchi also had a powerful partnership with Macedonian forward Goran Pandev. Often Pandev would play within the hollow rear Rocchi, but they were also able towards play up front together with a central attacking midfielder behind. Between them, they were Lazio's top goalscorers for three seasons consecutively. A positive 2005–06 season observed Rocchi score a personal greatest 16 league goals as Lazio ceased sixth, a site which was afterwards robbed away from them due towards the Calciopoli scandal. At former relegation towards Serie B was the verdict, but Lazio were soon reinstated towards the top flight. Beginning the 2006–07 season with an eleven-point deduction, a relegation battle appeared onto the cards for Lazio, and a slow activate did nothing towards assistance the situation. However, the team's form soon sweetened, and the deduction was decimated towards three, making a tilt at a UEFA Champions League site an unlikely yet possible goal. Rocchi backed up his 16 goal pull yet again, as Lazio ceased third and experienced for Europe's premier club competition. The 2007–08 season observed Rocchi earn his personal debut within the UEFA Champions League, whereas he scored a crucial successful goal against Werder Bremen. This season he ended the campaign with 14 Serie A goals. He spent much of the year as captain of Lazio, deputizing for the often stung Luciano Zauri. On February twenty, 2008, Rocchi redeveloped his contract, extending the import via five years. This contract extension would operate until 2013, and effectively ensure Rocchi would remain at the club for the remainder of his career.[8] On March 19, 2008, Rocchi scored his fourth goal within the Derby della Capitale within a 3–2 victory against A.S. Roma. From a personal perspective, 2008–09 was a destitute season for Rocchi.

After lacking the former two months of the season due towards an sting suffered whilst onto international obligation at the 2008 Beijing Games, Rocchi never reached his habitual goalscoring form, ceasing with just 9 for the season; his lowest tally within six years. However, the club won their fifth Coppa Italia title, defeating Sampdoria within a disadvantage shootout. Rocchi suffered the indignity of being the alone Lazio musician towards fail towards convert his dot kick. This season was also his former as the official team captain, as soon as the exodus of Zauri towards Fiorentina. Rocchi obtains the Coppa Italia prize from Giorgio Napolitano. At the end of the 2008–09 season, having made again 200 impressions within the Lazio shirt, and having scored 83 goals, Rocchi declared his target was towards collaborate an exclusive list of musicians towards possess scored hundred goals for the club. This mark had alone previously been reached via four musicians, Silvio Piola, Giuseppe Signori, Bruno Giordano and Giorgio Chinaglia. Rocchi decided towards distort his number 18 shirt for the number 9, which had previously been worn via everybody of those four, aside from Signori.

International career

Rocchi has portrayed Italy at youth grade numerous times.
In August 2006, consecutive Italy's fourth FIFA World Cup title, novel Azzurri boss Roberto Donadoni branded Rocchi up towards the squad as a award for his unheard of scoring file within Serie A. He made his debut against Croatia within the 2–0 loss at 29 years of age. Rocchi performed two many fits for the national team onto the route towards Euro 2008 but did not earn the squad for the final tournament. He was appointed as the alone overage musician within Pierluigi Casiraghi's Olympic team towards play at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He scored against South Korea onto August 10 . He has obtained the calcionado (awarded for Serie A's excellent player) onto two occasions, within 2004 and 2007