Angelo Peruzzi Football player
Angelo Peruzzi, Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo peˈruttsi]; born 16 February 1970 in Blera, Viterbo) is an Italian former football goalkeeper, and a three-time winner of the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award. He is regarded by pundits as one of the greatest Italian goalkeepers of all time, and as one of the best keepers of his generation. A powerful, athletic, and consistent goalkeeper, Peruzzi was renowned for his strength, positioning, and reactions, as well as his agility, despite his short and stocky physique; he particularly excelled at rushing off his line to parry the ball on the ground.He played 31 times for the Italy national football team from his debut in 1995, and was a member of their squad which won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also represented them at the 1992 Olympics, at Euro 96 (as a starting goalkeeper), and at Euro 2004.Peruzzi retired from professional football after the 2006–07 season and now works as Delio Rossi's assistant at Sampdoria in Serie A, a position he was appointed to on July 2012, after has been his assistant for two years in the Italian under-21 team.
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