Alessandro Ferri (February 25, 19212003) was an Italian professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. He started playing as a child with

S.S. Lazio Società Sportiva Lazio (; ; ''Lazio Sport Club''), commonly referred to as Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity. The society, founded in 1900, plays in the Serie A and have spent ...

and went through every youth team the club had. On January 15, 1939, he came to get the tickets for the Derby della Capitale game against fierce city rivals A.S. Roma, like he has been doing for several previous years. Club president told him: "Today you don't need tickets, you're playing". He became a regular in the Lazio defence for several years. In his last Serie A game for Lazio he scored his only league goal for them, on November 30, 1947, in a 1–1 draw against Atalanta B.C. The next season, after financial disagreements with the club management, he transferred to the rival A.S. Roma team. Overall, he played 9 seasons (148 games, 2 goals) in the Serie A for Lazio and Roma.

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1921 births 2003 deaths Italian men's footballers Serie A players SS Lazio players Taranto FC 1927 players AS Roma players AS Reggina 1914 players Men's association football defenders Footballers from Rome {{Italy-footy-defender-1920s-stub