Simone Perrotta (; born 17 September 1977) is an Italian former professional
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. Throughout his career, he stood out for his work-rate, energy, and box-to-box play as a ball-winner in the midfield area. After initially playing for Italian sides
Reggina
Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo.
They are n ...
,
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
,
Bari
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, and
Chievo
Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige.
It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...
, Perrotta went on to spend most of his career with
Serie A
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club
Roma
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, until his retirement on 29 June 2013; he won consecutive
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
titles with the club in 2007 and 2008, as well as the
2007 Supercoppa Italiana
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The match took place on 19 August 2007 in San Siro, Milan, and resulted in a 1–0 victory for Roma. The goal ...
.
Born in England, at international level, Perrotta represented the
Italian national team
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on 48 occasions between 2002 and 2009. He was a member of the team that won the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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and also represented Italy in two
UEFA European Championship
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s.
Club career
Early career: Reggina and Juventus
Perrotta was born in
Ashton-under-Lyne
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, England, in the same hospital as England's
1966 World Cup
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winner
Geoff Hurst
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. He grew up in the youth system of
Reggina
Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo.
They are n ...
and debuted in
Serie B
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in 1995, becoming an important fixture in their line-up. In 1998,
Juventus
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decided to sign him; however, due to the presence of several more experienced and world-class midfielders ahead of him on the team, such as
Antonio Conte
Antonio Conte (; born 31 July 1969) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
Playing as a midfielder, Conte began his career at local club Lecce and later b ...
,
Didier Deschamps
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,
Edgar Davids
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After beginning his career with Ajax, winning several domestic and international titles, he subsequently played in Italy for AC Mi ...
,
Alessio Tacchinardi
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He began his career with Atalanta. In 1994, he moved to Juventus, where ...
, and
Zinedine Zidane
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, he struggled to gain playing time, and only made five league appearances for the
Turin
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club, and 15 in total. Despite his limited space at the club, he was able to score a goal in the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
, make his
Champions League debut, and appeared in the
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup
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Qualified teams
First round
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, which Juventus went on to win, before being sent out on loan to Bari.
Bari
In 1999, Perrotta was farmed to
Bari
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in a co-ownership deal for 3 billion Italian lire (or €1,549,371), as part of
Gianluca Zambrotta
Gianluca Zambrotta (; born 19 February 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a right-back or as a wide midfielder, on both the left and right wings.
Throughout his career, Zambrotta played for several different Italia ...
's deal, where he played for two seasons, breaking into the first team.
In June 2001, Bari acquired him outright for approximately €300,000, making Juventus booked a financial cost of €1.25 million for the discount.
Chievo
At the start of
2001–02 Serie A
The 2001–02 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 100th season of top-tier Italian football, the 70th in a round-robin tournament. It was composed by 18 teams, for the 14th consecutive time from season 1988–89.
...
, following Bari's relegation from the Serie A, he was shipped to
Chievo
Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige.
It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...
, where he remained for three seasons, and made a name for himself as one of Italy's best midfielders. Alongside
Eugenio Corini
Eugenio Corini (born 30 July 1970) is an Italian professional football coach and former player, currently in charge of Serie B club Palermo.
A talented, dynamic, and hard-working playmaker, known for his precise long passing, flair, and his a ...
, he was a mainstay in the midfield of a surprising newly promoted Chievo squad that was first place at the winter break, and finished the season in fifth place under manager
Luigi Delneri
Luigi Delneri (born 23 August 1950), often incorrectly written as Del Neri, is an Italian football manager and a former player.
After a playing career as a midfielder including for several Serie A clubs, he began managing in the lower leagues, a ...
, qualifying for the
UEFA Cup
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.
He even provided the winning assist in their famous victory over
Internazionale
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that season. Despite his consistent performances, his next two seasons at the club were less successful, due to the departure of several key players, as Chievo finished seventh in Serie A during the
2002–03 season, and ninth in Serie A during the
2003–04 season.
Roma
In 2004,
Roma
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signed him from the Veneto club for €7.2 million on a four-year instalment. The deal was later changed to three instalments, however; new Roma signing
Matteo Brighi
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Regarded as one of Italy's most talented prospects in his early career, Brighi was named Serie A Young Footballer of the Ye ...
, valued at €16 million was loaned to Chievo for the season as part of the deal. and then discounted to €7.05 million,
His first season at the club saw him play in a supporting role as a
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, behind the attacking trio made up of
Francesco Totti
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,
Antonio Cassano
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, and
Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella (; born 18 June 1974) is an Italian retired footballer and current manager, who played as a striker. He is current manager of Süper Lig club Adana Demirspor.
Montella's nickname during his playing career was "Aeroplanino", i ...
; however, the season was largely unsuccessful, as Roma underwent several managerial changes, suffered a first round elimination in the
UEFA Champions League
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, finished eighth in Serie A, and lost out to Inter in the
2005 Coppa Italia Final.
The
following season saw the arrival of
Luciano Spalletti
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Playing career
Born in Certaldo, Metropolitan City of Florence, Spalletti started his career ...
as Roma's new head coach. Under Spalletti's 4–2–3–1 formation, Perrotta played in a more advanced role, behind the first striker and in between the left and right winger as an
attacking central midfielder, in which he was able to rediscover his form, becoming a key member of Roma's midfield, as Roma reached the
2006 Coppa Italia Final
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. In merit of his fine performances for the capital club, he earned a call-up to
Marcello Lippi
Marcello Romeo Lippi (; born 12 April 1948) is an Italian former professional football player and manager, who led the Italian national team to victory in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
He was appointed as Italy head coach in the summer of 2004 and 2 ...
's
Italy
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squad for the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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, starting all seven games for the eventual champions. In 2006, he also signed a contract extension with the capital club, keeping him in Rome until 2010.
Perrotta continued to excel in this more advanced role under Spalletti, and scored 13 goals in all competitions during the
2006–07 season, as he won the Coppa Italia title in
2007
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, finishing as the tournament's top scorer; the
following season, he helped Roma to defend
title
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, and also won the
2007 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2007 Supercoppa Italiana was a match contested by 2006–07 Serie A winners Internazionale and 2006–07 Coppa Italia winners Roma.
The match took place on 19 August 2007 in San Siro, Milan, and resulted in a 1–0 victory for Roma. The goal ...
, in which he was sent off.
Perrotta signed a new one-year extension to his contract with Roma in October 2009, extending his stay at the club until 2011. In March 2011, he signed another contract, with basic salary decreased to €2.5 million per season.
For the
2011–12 season, Perrotta was usually used as a central midfielder alongside
Daniele De Rossi
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and
Miralem Pjanić
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Pjanić started his professional career at Metz being there for one ...
.
On 20 February 2012, Perrotta signed a new one-year extension to his contract with Roma that will keep him at the club until 2013. Perrotta's fixed gross fee for the current season was raised to €2.6 million plus performance bonuses. He played 20 matches in the 2011–12 season, failing to score a goal.
After almost two years without scoring, he scored against
Siena
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The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...
on 2 December 2012, giving Roma a 1–2 lead away. Roma eventually won the game 1–3, with a brace from
Mattia Destro
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Club career
Youth career
Destro began his c ...
. He scored again on 3 March 2013, also in a 3–1 win, against
Genoa
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at the
Stadio Olimpico
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. He was substituted on for striker
Pablo Osvaldo in the 81st minute and eight minutes later, in the 89th minute, he scored a goal that sealed the match. After the appointment of
Aurelio Andreazzoli
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Career
In 2005, Andreazzoli joined Roma to become head coach Luciano Spalletti's assistant coach, becoming a valuable p ...
as caretaking manager, he received significantly more playing time than under the
Czech
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Zdeněk Zeman
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. He finished the
season
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with 16 league appearances, only four as a starter, with two goals scored; under manager
Aurelio Andreazzoli
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Career
In 2005, Andreazzoli joined Roma to become head coach Luciano Spalletti's assistant coach, becoming a valuable p ...
, he was left on the bench in Roma's 1–0
Coppa Italia Final defeat to
cross-city rivals Lazio
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. On 29 June 2013, Perrotta announced his retirement from professional football.
International career
Perrotta was eligible to play for both Italy and
England
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– the latter due to his birth in the country (in addition to being Italian, he is automatically a British citizen as the United Kingdom granted
unconditional birthright citizenship until 1983). Perrotta made his debut for the
Italy under-21 team under
Marco Tardelli
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, making 6 appearances and scoring a goal.
He won the
2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
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, appearing in Italy's 2–1 victory over the
Czech Republic
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in the final,
but was later dropped from the
2000 Summer Olympics
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squad due to injury. He made his senior international debut under
Giovanni Trapattoni
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, on 20 November 2002, in a 1–1 draw against
Turkey
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.
He subsequently played for Italy at
UEFA Euro 2004
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,
scoring a goal in a 2–1 win against
Bulgaria
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, although the Italian national side were eliminated in the first round of the tournament on direct-encounters following a three-way five point tie with
Denmark
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Perrotta also represented the Italian national team during the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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under coach
Marcello Lippi
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He was appointed as Italy head coach in the summer of 2004 and 2 ...
, starting in all seven of the ''Azzurris games, including the final, en route to their fourth World Cup title,
setting up
Filippo Inzaghi
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's goal in a 2–0 win over the
Czech Republic
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in Italy's final group match of the tournament on 22 June. Unlike with Roma, Perrotta was often used as a left winger with the Italian national team under Lippi, or as a "front-lying" defensive midfielder, as he was in the 2006 World Cup.
Under new manager
Roberto Donadoni
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Donadoni was capable of playing on either flank, or in the centre. He began his career with Atalanta, and he later became a pillar of the powerhous ...
, Perrotta scored his second goal for Italy in a 3–1 away win over
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in a
Euro 2008 qualifying match on 11 October 2006. He made his first appearance as Italy
captain
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on 21 November 2007, in the second half of a 3–1 home win over the
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, in a European qualifier.
He went on to take part at
UEFA Euro 2008
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, often appearing as an attacking midfielder,
where Italy lost out to eventual champions
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on penalties in the quarter-finals.
In 2009, after being left out from
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squad by Marcello Lippi, he retired from international football; he made his final appearance for Italy on 10 February 2009, in a 2–0 friendly defeat to
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, at the
Emirates Stadium
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. In total he made 48 appearances for Italy, scoring two goals.
Style of play
A quick, physically strong, energetic, tenacious, and hard-working two-way player, Perrotta was known for his pace, versatility, and consistency, as well as his stamina,
box-to-box
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
play, and hard running style, which allowed him to play anywhere in
midfield
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; although he was usually used in the
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, and often in a
holding role in front of the defence, where he was adept at breaking down plays and subsequently distributing the ball to team-mates after winning back possession, throughout his career, he was also deployed out
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, as a
mezzala
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, or even in a more
advanced role, behind the strikers, due to his movement off the ball and ability to make attacking runs into the penalty box, as well as his eye for goal from midfield.
Personal life
Perrotta is of
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n origins and was born in England. He lived in England until the age of five, attending the former St Ann's RC Primary School on Burlington Street in
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, east of Manche ...
. His parents, Francesco and Anna Maria, ran a pub in Ashton and lived on Fitzroy Street and briefly at the Chiltern Chapel before moving back to Italy in 1982, to their hometown
Cerisano
Cerisano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
History
According to some hypotheses, the town was founded by the Oenotrians, around the fifteenth century BC. In this account, Cerisano would ...
, in the province of
Cosenza
Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...
.
He is married and he has a son called Peter.
On 22 December 2010, a statue of Perrotta was unveiled in Ashton-under-Lyne, close to
Curzon Ashton F.C.
Curzon Ashton Football Club is an association football club based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. Founded in 1963 and nicknamed "The Nash", the club is affiliated to the Manchester Football Association and currently compet ...
's Tameside Stadium in the Roy Oldham Sports Village, Richmond Street. The triple sculpture by Andrew Edwards and Sculpture For Sport commemorates the three men from the borough of
Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is named after the River Tame, Greater Manchester, River Tame, which flows through the borough, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Aud ...
who hold World Cup winner's medals:
Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he became the first man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley St ...
,
Jimmy Armfield
James Christopher Armfield, (21 September 1935 – 22 January 2018) was an English professional football player and manager who latterly worked as a football pundit for BBC Radio Five Live. He played the whole of his Football League career at B ...
, and Perrotta. He speaks English and Italian.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Italy's goal tally first.''
[
]
Honours
Club
Roma
* Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
: 2006–07, 2007–08
* Supercoppa Italiana
The Supercoppa Italiana ( en, Italian Super Cup) is an annual football match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team wins both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous seaso ...
: 2007
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International
Italy[
* ]FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
: 2006
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* UEFA Under-21 European Championship
The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the UEFA Under-21 Championship or simply the Euro Under-21, is a biennial football competition contested by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Since 1992, the compe ...
: 2000
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Individual
* Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
Top scorer: 2006–07
Orders
:* CONI
The Italian National Olympic Committee ( it, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. ...
: ''Golden Collar of Sports Merit'': 2006
:*
4th Class / Officer: '' Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana'': 2006
References
External links
Profile on AS Roma's official website
FootballDatabase.com provides Perrotta's profile and stats
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Sportspeople from the Province of Cosenza
Footballers from Ashton-under-Lyne
English people of Italian descent
People of Calabrian descent
1977 births
Living people
Italian footballers
Italy international footballers
Italy under-21 international footballers
Association football midfielders
Reggina 1914 players
Juventus F.C. players
S.S.C. Bari players
A.C. ChievoVerona players
A.S. Roma players
UEFA Euro 2004 players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2008 players
Serie A players
Serie B players
FIFA World Cup-winning players
Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Footballers from Calabria