Daniele De Rossi

Daniele De Rossi
De Rossi with Italy in 2012
Personal information
Full name Daniele De Rossi[1]
Date of birth (1983-07-24) 24 July 1983 (age 41)[1]
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Roma (head coach)
Youth career
1997–2000 Ostia Mare
2000–2001 Roma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2019 Roma 459 (43)
2019–2020 Boca Juniors 5 (0)
Total 464 (43)
International career
2001 Italy U19 3 (2)
2002 Italy U20 4 (0)
2003–2004 Italy U21 16 (3)
2004–2017 Italy 117 (21)
Managerial career
2022–2023 SPAL
2024– Roma
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Italy
FIFA World Cup
Winner 2006 Germany
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up 2012 Poland-Ukraine
FIFA Confederations Cup
Third place 2013 Brazil
Summer Olympics
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Winner 2004 Germany
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniele De Rossi Ufficiale OMRI[3][4] (Italian pronunciation: [daˈnjɛːle de ˈrossi]; born 24 July 1983) is an Italian football manager and former professional player who is the head coach of Serie A club Roma. As a football player, he is known for his long career with hometown club Roma, as well as winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Italy.

De Rossi made his professional debut with Roma during the 2001–02 season, and made his Serie A debut the following year. With the club, he won the Coppa Italia twice in 2007 and 2008, and the 2007 Supercoppa Italiana. He was named Serie A Young Footballer of the Year in 2006,[5] and the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year in 2009. De Rossi inherited the captaincy of Roma at the start of the 2017–18 season following the retirement of Francesco Totti, during which he helped Roma to the Champions League semi-final for the first time in the Champions League era. At the end of the 2018–19 season, he left Roma after 18 seasons with the team. With 616 appearances for Roma in all competitions, he is the club's second-most capped player of all time, behind Totti. He subsequently joined Argentine club Boca Juniors in the summer of 2019, and retired from professional football in January of the following year.

De Rossi represented Italy at under-19, under-20, under-21 and senior levels, winning the 2004 European Under-21 Football Championship, and also represented Italy at the 2004 Olympics, winning a bronze medal. From his senior international debut in 2004, until his retirement from the national team in 2017, he earned 117 caps, and is Italy's joint fourth-highest capped player of all time, and most capped midfielder of all time. With 21 goals, he is the highest scoring midfielder for Italy post-World War II, and Italy's all-time second most prolific midfielder behind Adolfo Baloncieri. He was part of the 2006 World Cup-winning squad and also participated at Euro 2008, the 2009 Confederations Cup, the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012 (finishing in second place), the 2013 Confederations Cup (finishing in third place), the 2014 World Cup, and Euro 2016. De Rossi was named in the Euro 2012 Team of the Tournament for his performances.

  1. ^ a b "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of Players: Italy" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2014. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Daniele De Rossi". AS Roma. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  3. ^ "FIFA.com".[dead link]
  4. ^ https://ascotsportal.com/ Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Oscar Aic, Cannavaro cannibale" [AIC Oscars, "cannibal" Cannavaro] (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 29 January 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2015.