Luciano Galletti

Luciano Galletti
Luciano Galletti (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Luciano Martín Galletti
birthday	April 9, 1980
place of birth	Mar del Plata ,  Argentina
size	179 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-1999	Estudiantes de La Plata	37 0(2)
1999	AC Parma	0 0(0)
2000	SSC Naples	11 0(2)
2000-2001	Estudiantes de La Plata	28 0(9)
2001-2005	Real Zaragoza	135 (15)
2005-2007	Atlético Madrid	62 0(5)
2007-2010	Olympiacos Piraeus	60 (19)
2013–	OFI Crete	6 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1999	Argentina U-20	12 (10)
2000-2005	Argentina	13 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 27, 2014

Luciano Martin Galletti (born April 9, 1980 in Mar del Plata ) is an Argentine football player . He had to end his career early for health reasons, but has been playing for OFI Crete again since 2013 .

Galletti began his career at Estudiantes de La Plata , where his father Rubén Horacio Galletti played in the 1970s. In the 1999/2000 season he played for AC Parma and SSC Napoli , but could not prevail there and returned to Estudiantes de La Plata. For the 2001/02 season he moved to Real Saragossa , with whom he won the 2004 Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España . After four years with Saragossa, he moved to Atlético Madrid . He stayed there for two years and then moved to Olympiacos Piraeus . With Olympiacos he was Greek champion and cup winner in 2008 and 2009.

In the 2009/10 season he was out due to illness. Just before the end of the season, he announced that he would end his career at the age of 30 on the advice of doctors. In the 2013/14 season, however, he started a new attempt and has since played for OFI Crete .

Galletti made his debut on February 13, 2002 in the friendly against Wales for the Argentine national football team . With Argentina, Galletti took part in the Confederations Cup in 2005 , where he was used three times and took second place. In 1999 he won the U-20 South American Championship with the Argentine U-20 selection and was the top scorer of the tournament with nine goals. He was also part of the squad at the 1999 Junior World Championships .