Patrizia Panico

Patrizia Panico
Personal information
Full name Patrizia Panico[1]
Date of birth (1975-02-08) 8 February 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1988–1991 Borussia
1991–1993 Valmontone
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 Lazio 71 (32)
1996–1997 Torino 30 (32)
1997–1998 Modena Amadio 28 (29)
1998–2003 Lazio 209 (191)
2003–2004 Milan 22 (5)
2004–2006 Torino 44 (56)
2006–2009 Bardolino 62 (73)
2009–2014 Torres 134 (175)
2010Sky Blue (loan) 10 (0)
2014–2015 Verona 25 (34)
2015–2016 Fiorentina 21 (20)
Total 656 (647)
International career
1996–2014 Italy 196 (110)
Managerial career
2017–2018 Italy U16 (assistant)
2018–2021 Italy U15
2020–2021 Italy U21 (assistant)
2021–2023 Fiorentina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrizia Panico (Italian pronunciation: [paˈtrittsja paˈniːko]; born 8 February 1975) is an Italian former footballer who is formerly the manager of Fiorentina in the Italian women's Serie A.[2] A prolific goalscorer, Panico is a longstanding member of the Italy women's national team; she won over 185 caps for Italy, and also served as her national side's captain. She is a veteran of Italy's 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 UEFA Women's Championship campaigns and played at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. In a club career that spanned more than two decades, Panico won ten Scudetti and collected five Coppa Italia winner's medals with her various clubs. She was Serie A's top scorer on 14 occasions (an Italian record for her category) and spent part of 2010 in the United States, representing Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) club Sky Blue. Panico is nicknamed "The Scorpion" due to her deadly goalscoring instincts.[3]

  1. ^ "Goalscorers" (PDF). UEFA. 16 November 2009. p. 1. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Prima Squadra" (in Italian). AGSM Verona. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. ^ "U.S. Women Set to Face Italy on Thursday, June 19". United States Soccer Federation. 18 June 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2015.