Friday, June 24, 2011

Gianluca Zambrotta

Italy's Gianluca Zambrotta is a footballer who was born on February 19, 1977 in Como Italy and play in the wingback position. Zambrotta is now playing with Serie A club AC Milan. Zambrotta was decorated as Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere Omri) in 2000 and he was made an Officer of the Same Order (Ufficiale Omri) in 2006.
Zambrotta started his career with junior club Como when he was 17 years old in 1994-1997. After Como promoted to Serie B, Zambrotta played regularly on the 1995-1997 season with a game total of 47 appearances and scored 6 goals. Zambrotta then joined Bari after the club's promotion to Serie A in years 1997-1999. Over the past 2 seasons to join the club Bari, Zambrotta played 59 appearances, scoring 6 goals. After the contract with Bari expired, Zambrotta moved to giants Juventus on July 1, 1999. At Juventus, he played 217 and scored 6 goals. Zambrotta also won the Scudetto in the 2001-2002 season and he played a total of 32 matches and scored one goal on the season.
Zambrotta spent almost all his time with Juventus before he finally decided to join one of the Spanish giants Barcelona for Calciopoli case and make Juventus had to come down to Serie B. He is in demand by several clubs including AC Milan, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​but eventually he decided to move to Barca on August 4, 2006 after Italy won the FIFA World Cup 2006. On March 17, 2007, he scored his first goal with Barca's game against Recreativo.







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