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 Materazzi before a Legends Cup match in 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Marco Materazzi[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 August 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lecce, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | Lazio | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Messina | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Tor di Quinto | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Marsala | 25 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Trapani | 13 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1998 | Perugia | 47 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | → Carpi (loan) | 18 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Everton | 25 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Perugia | 51 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2011 | Inter Milan | 184 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Chennaiyin | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 383 | (55) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2008 | Italy | 41 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Chennaiyin (player-manager) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Marco Materazzi Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko mateˈrattsi]; born 19 August 1973) is an Italian former professional footballer and manager.
Early in his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Everton in the Premier League. He spent two periods with Perugia (1995–98 and 1999–2001) and signed for Inter Milan in 2001 for €10 million. At club level, he won a number of major honors with Inter, including five Serie A league titles in a row from 2006 to 2010, one UEFA Champions League, one FIFA Club World Cup, four Coppa Italia titles, and the Supercoppa Italiana four times.[2]
Materazzi earned 41 caps for Italy from his debut in 2001 until 2008, playing in two World Cups and two European Championships. He was one of the key players in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final against France; he gave away an early penalty that led to France's first goal, scored Italy's equalising goal twelve minutes later and, in extra time, received a headbutt from Zinedine Zidane who was punished with a red card.[3] Italy then went on to win the World Cup in a penalty shoot-out, during which Materazzi scored again.
A controversial and provocative figure in football, he was known for his very physical and aggressive style of defending, which saw him collect numerous cards throughout his career.
- ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Italy" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
- ^ The Matrix – Marco Materazzi: "Lazy Man's Calcio - the Matrix". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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