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Mauro Camoranesi
Personal information
Full name Mauro Germán Serra Camoranesi
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) right midfielder
Team information
Current team Juventus F.C.
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 November 2006

Mauro Germán Serra Camoranesi, Cavaliere (born October 4, 1976 in Tandil, Argentina) is a Italo-Argentinian football midfielder, who currently plays for Juventus, recently demoted to Serie B.

Camoranesi is a member of the Italy national football team and was part of the winning squad at the 2006 World Cup. He is a midfielder, and usually plays on the right wing, where he is most comfortable and effective.

Club

Camoranesi has always been a big fan of the Argentinian club River Plate. As a youngster, he played in his native country Argentina for Aldosivi, but moved to Mexico to begin his professional playing career at Santos Laguna. During the 1996-97 season, he scored 8 goals in 22 games for the team.

More travels came for the young Argentine the following year, as he moved to Uruguayan club Montevideo Wanderers briefly. Before returning back to his homeland to play for Banfield, solidifying himself as an impressive attacking right midfielder, playing 38 games and scoring 16 goals.

The following season Camoranesi moved once again, this time back to Mexico and club Cruz Azul, where he played from 1998 to 2000. He caught the attention of Italian Serie A side Hellas Verona by scoring 32 goals in 78 games with Cruz Azul, an impressive achievement for a midfield player.

He moved to Italy in 2000, signing with Hellas Verona where he played two years before moving to Italian giants Juventus in 2002, where he became a prominent member of the squad.

With Juventus, Camoranesi won the 2002-03 edition of Serie A, and the 2002 and 2003 Italian Super Cups. Camoranesi was also a Serie A champion with the "bianconeri" in both the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, but Juventus were stripped of both those titles as another result of the "calciopoli" scandal.

Despite his agent; Sergio Fortunato linking the player to clubs such as Lyon, Valencia and Liverpool over the summer, following Juve's relegation. Camoranesi made an announcement himself in September 2006, pledging loyalty to Juventus: "In January I will not ask to be sold, I'm happy to stay here," he stated.

International

Although born in Argentina, Camoranesi has Italian ancestry through his Grandparents who were Italian and had emigrated to Argentina, hence his last name. This made him eligible to play for either Argentina or Italy, but the "Azzurri" showed interest in him first and, in 12 February 2003, he made his international debut for Italy in a friendly match against Portugal, which Italy won 1-0, under former coach Giovanni Trapattoni.

Some Italian fans are not too fond of Camoranesi because, upon accepting Trapattoni's offer to play for the "Azzurri", he stated: "I'm not a traitor, I still feel 100% Argentine and have done nothing to find myself in this situation. It's only a football matter, nothing else". He also chooses not to sing Italy's national anthem before their matches because he doesn't know the words, although he can be seen singing (at least a part of) said anthem during the World Cup celebrations in Circus Maximus on 10 July 2006.

He has been capped 29 times by Italy and has scored two goals, the first of which came in Italy's 2006 World Cup qualifier away to Belarus on 7 September 2005, which the Italians won 4-1. His second goal came on 11 October 2006 in Italy's 2008 European championship qualifier away to Georgia. He also scored on a friendly match against Netherlands on 12 November 2005, however official records decided that the goal is an own goal by a Netherlands player.

Major Competitions

Camoranesi played for Italy at UEFA Euro 2004, and was also part of Marcello Lippi's Italy team which won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At the end of the final match, in which Italy defeated rivals France, Camoranesi had Massimo Oddo, his team-mate, chop off a large chunk of his long hair as the rest of the squad danced around them in a circle, one of the tournament's most memorable moments. Camoranesi then went up to the Camera and dedicated the triumph by saying: "para los pibes del barrio ..." (for the guys from the neighbourhood).

Mauro commented in an interview in regards to the World Cup victory "I feel Argentine. But I have defended the colors of Italy with dignity. That is something nobody can take away."

Teams and clubs

Honors and awards

Trivia

  • As a child Camoranesi grew up supporting Argentine side River Plate.
  • He is married and has two children.

Notes

  1. 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany - Player Profile - CAMORANESI Mauro - Italy
  2. Football Italia @ Bravo
  3. lastampa.it
  4. UEFA.com news 26 June 2003
  5. UEFA.com

External links

Juventus FC – current squad
Italy squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup winners (4th title)
Italy
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