Matteo Paro
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 17 March 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Asti, Italy | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Roma (assistant) | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2002 | Juventus | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2003 | Juventus | 1 | (0) |
2003–2005 | Chievo | 0 | (0) |
2004–2005 | → Crotone (loan) | 54 | (5) |
2005–2006 | Siena | 28 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Juventus | 28 | (1) |
2007–2012 | Genoa | 20 | (0) |
2009–2010 | → Bari (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2010 | → Piacenza (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2010–2012 | → Vicenza (loan) | 47 | (4) |
2013–2014 | SPAL | 12 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Mantova | 29 | (2) |
2015–2016 | Crotone | 13 | (0) |
International career | |||
2003 | Italy U-20 | 6 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Matteo Paro (born 17 March 1983) is an Italian football coach and former player in the role of midfielder. He is the current assistant coach to Ivan Jurić at Roma.
Playing career
[edit]Juventus
[edit]Paro made his Serie A debut on 17 May 2003, in a 2–1 loss to Reggina.
Chievo
[edit]In the summer of 2003, Juventus sold half of Paro's contract to Chievo in July for €450,000 total fee along with Sculli and Gastaldello as part of the deal that sent defender Nicola Legrottaglie the other way.[1] Paro himself was valued for €50,000 only (50% rights).
Siena
[edit]In 2005, Juventus bought back all three for €1.05 million (€350,000 each). But Paro and Gastaldello were sold to Siena in another joint-ownership deal for €450,000 each.
Return to Juventus
[edit]In 2006, Juventus was relegated to Serie B and bought back Paro's 50% rights from Siena for an undisclosed fee. He also holds the distinction of scoring Juventus' first ever Serie B goal during Juventus's 1–1 away draw with Rimini on 9 September 2006.[2]
Genoa
[edit]In summer 2007, he was sold to Genoa in a joint-ownership deal for €1.5 million and reunited with Sculli. Also Gastaldello joined Genoa's city rival U.C. Sampdoria.
Juventus received another €2 million for the player in June 2008.[3]
In July 2009. Paro joined newly promoted side Bari on loan. The club also signed Riccardo Meggiorini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Ranocchia (loan) and Giuseppe Greco (loan) from Genoa. On 29 January 2010, AS Bari loaned the midfielder to Piacenza.
Vicenza
[edit]In the summer of 2010, he left on loan for Vicenza. In the summer of 2011, Danilo Russo returned to Genoa, and Paro joined Vicenza in another temporary deal.
Coaching career
[edit]After spending his two final seasons as a player at Mantova and Crotone, both times under head coach Ivan Jurić, Paro retired in order to join the Croatian's staff in 2017 at Genoa, first as a match analyst. In 2019, he became Jurić's assistant coach at Hellas Verona, then following him in all of his successive coaching jobs at Torino and Roma.
References
[edit]- ^ Juventus Football Club: Accordo con la società A.C. Chievo Verona per l’acquisizione del calciatore Nicola Legrottaglie (in Italian)
- ^ "Juve, il debutto in B è un flop a Rimini trova solo un pareggio" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 9 September 2006. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "Transfer market: joint-ownerships settled yesterday". Juventus FC. 26 June 2008. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
External links
[edit]- Player Profile[permanent dead link] at VicenzaCalcio.com (in Italian) [dead link]
- Matteo Paro at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
- Living people
- 1983 births
- People from Asti
- Footballers from Piedmont
- Men's association football midfielders
- Italian men's footballers
- Juventus FC players
- AC ChievoVerona players
- Siena FC SSD players
- Genoa CFC players
- SSC Bari players
- FC Crotone players
- Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
- LR Vicenza players
- Mantova 1911 players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Serie C players
- Sportspeople from the Province of Asti
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen