Fabrizio Miccoli
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Fabrizio Miccoli | |
| Date of birth | June 27, 1979 (age 27) | |
| Place of birth | Nardò, Italy | |
| Height | 168 cm | |
| Nickname | Pocket Bomber, Romario of the Salento, Rato Miccoli ("Miccoli Mouse" in Portuguese) Gordo |
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| Playing position | Striker | |
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| Current club |  SL Benfica |
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| Number | 30 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1996-1998 1998-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005- |
 Casarano Calcio Ternana Calcio AC Perugia Juventus FC ACF Fiorentina S.L. Benfica |
59 (19) 123 (32) 34 (9) 24 (7) 35 (12) 26 (8)[1] |
| National team2 | ||
| 2003- | Italy |
10 (2) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Fabrizio Miccoli (June 27, 1979) is an Italian football striker who currently plays for Sport Lisboa e Benfica. Despite being born in Nardò, Lecce, he has always lived in San Donato di Lecce, also in Lecce.
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[edit] Perugia
Miccoli started his profesional career for Serie C1 team Casarano Calcio. Successively, after a spell at Serie B side Ternana, Miccoli, owned by Juventus, was loaned to Serie A side Perugia for the 2002/2003 season. Miccoli showed great qualities during the season, scoring great goals and showing excellent technical ability. He was dubbed the Romario of the Salento and bomber tascabile (pocket bomber), due to his small stature and his technical ability. His efforts helped Perugia reach an UEFA Intertoto Cup spot. He even received an Azzurri call-up during the season. Because of his efforts, Juventus called him back for the following season.
[edit] Juventus
Fabrizio Miccoli played six UEFA Champions League games for Juventus, and scored one goal. He also scored seven goals in Serie A for Juventus. However, he did not get much of chance and the next season he was loaned out to newly promoted ACF Fiorentina.
[edit] Fiorentina
Once in Florence, Miccoli showed his good qualities once again, helping Fiorentina to salvation on the last day of the season, scoring a goal to send Brescia to Serie B. At the end of the season there was a blind auction between Fiorentina and Juventus to decide his ownership, and Juventus won it. Therefore, Miccoli had to return to Turin, but he was sent on loan to SL Benfica.
[edit] SL Benfica
SL Benfica turned out to be a good move for him as Miccoli scored two goals in six Champions League appearances. He also became a fan favorite when he scored a magnificent scisors kick goal against Liverpool during that competition, enabling Benfica to confirm the qualification to the quarterfinals. In July 2006 his loan to Benfica was confirmed. At SL Benfica, Miccoli attracted attention from other clubs such as AS Roma, Inter Milan , Blackburn Rovers and Deportivo La Coruna but opted to stay in Lisbon with the UEFA Champions League two-time winners SL Benfica.
[edit] National Team
Fabrizio Miccoli made his Azzurri debut against Portugal in February 2003, creating the only goal for Bernardo Corradi. Subsequently featured in UEFA EURO 2004 qualifying and was recalled to play in a friendly against Finland in November 2004, scoring in a 1-0 win. Many Italian fans were disaponted that Fabrizio Miccoli did not make the squad for FIFA World Cup in 2006 including players like Luca Toni many Football experts claim that the Italian coach Marcello Lippi wanted an all Italian Serie A squad. This was proved not to be the case when Fabrizio claimed that he was injured and he did not want to jeopardize Italy's chances in the World Cup with a knee injury.
[edit] Facts
He has a tattoo of Che Guevara on his leg and one of his idols is Diego Maradona. He is a supporter of football team U.S. Lecce.
Benfica fans have dubbed him Rato Miccoli ("Miccoli Mouse").
[edit] Teams and clubs
- 1996-1998 Casarano
- 1998-2002 Ternana
- 2002-2003 AC Perugia -on loan from Juventus
- 2003-2004 Juventus
- 2004-2005 Fiorentina co-ownership with Juventus[2]
- 2005-current Benfica -on loan from Juventus[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ Source: [1]
- ^ Juventus official doc (in PDF file)
- ^ The cownership of Giorgio Chiellini, Enzo Maresca and Fabrizio Miccoli between Fiorentina and Juventus were terminated by Juventus paid to Fiorentina for 6.7million Euro. Source: Juventus Quarterly Report, page 15 (in PDF file)
- ^ UEFA.com News 31-8-2005
- ^ FIGC.com official stactics
[edit] External links
| SL Benfica - Current Squad |
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1 Moreira | 2 P. Correia | 3 Anderson | 4 Luisão | 5 Léo | 6 Petit | 7 M. Ferreira | 8 Katsouranis | 9 Mantorras | 10 Rui Costa | 11 Miguelito | 12 Quim | 15 P. Jorge | 16 Beto | 18 Manú | 20 Simão | 21 Nuno Gomes | 22 Nélson | 23 David Luiz | 25 N. Assis | 26 Karagounis | 27 Derlei | 28 J. Coimbra | 30 Miccoli | 31 Moretto | Manager: Fernando Santos |
