Nicola Amoruso

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Nicola Amoruso
Personnel
birthday 29th August 1974
place of birth Cerignola ,  Italy
size 186 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1991-1993 Sampdoria Genoa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1994 Sampdoria Genoa 8 0(3)
1994-1995 Fidelis Andria 34 (15)
1995-1996 Calcio Padova 33 (14)
1996-2003 Juventus Turin 62 0(9)
1999-2000 →  AC Perugia  (loan) 25 (11)
2000-2001 →  SSC Napoli  (loan) 30 (10)
2002-2003 →  AC Perugia  (loan) 7 0(0)
2003 →  Como Calcio  (loan) 14 0(6)
2003-2004 Modena FC 25 0(5)
2004-2005 FC Messina 22 0(5)
2005-2008 Reggina Calcio 96 (40)
2008-2009 Torino FC 20 0(4)
2009 →  AC Siena  (loan) 6 0(0)
2009-2010 Parma FC 17 0(5)
2010-2011 Atalanta Bergamo 15 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1996 Italy U21 4 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Nicola Amoruso (born August 29, 1974 in Cerignola ) is a former Italian football player .

Career

Nicola Amoruso started his career in the youth department of Sampdoria Genoa . On 12 December 1993 he debuted at the 0: 3 in the match against Inter Milan for the Blucerchiati in the Serie A . This season Amoruso was able to celebrate the first success of his career by winning the Coppa Italia .

Nevertheless, he did not really get a chance at Samp and therefore went to Fidelis Andria in 1994 in Serie B , where he was a regular and scored 15 times. In the following season Amoruso played for Calcio Padova in Serie A. There he was again regular and top scorer of the team, but could not prevent relegation with the team at the end of the season.

Due to his good performance, record champions Juventus Turin became aware of Amoruso, who signed him in the summer of 1996. There he found strong competition in his position with the strikers Alessandro Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi , but still managed to play regularly. With Juve , under coach Marcello Lippi, he won two Italian championships , the World Cup and the European Supercup, and reached the Champions League final in 1997 and 1998 . Amoruso played a total of 105 games for Juventus and scored 29 goals.

Between 1999 and 2005, Nicola Amoruso played for a different Serie A team each season. First he was awarded to AC Perugia , then to SSC Napoli , 2001/02 he played again at Juventus and won his third championship with the Turin team. He was then loaned back to Perugia and later to Como Calcio . For the 2003/04 season Nicola Amoruso moved to FC Modena on a free transfer , in 2004/05 he was under contract with FC Messina .

In summer 2005 he moved to Reggina Calcio . In the 2005/06 season Amoruso led the team from Calabria to 13th place in the top Italian division with eleven goals in 29 games . In the 2006/07 season the Reggina started for their involvement in the fraud trial with 15 penalty points and stood, according to many experts, even as a pre-season relegated firmly. The team managed, however, mainly because of the 35 goals scored by Nicola Amoruso and his strike partner Rolando Bianchi , the relegation that was not considered possible. In the summer of 2007 he extended his contract in Reggio Calabria to 2010. Also in the 2007/08 season he fought with Reggina again against relegation from Serie A. On May 4, 2008 Amoruso achieved a 2-1 win at Catania Calcio two goals with which he secured his club's first away win in a year and reached the 100-goal mark in Serie A. Amoruso was the first player in the history of the top Italian division to do so at nine different clubs. With twelve goals this season in 33 games, Amoruso scored almost a third of all Reggina's goals and thus again made a significant contribution to staying up.

On July 8, 2008 Nicola Amoruso moved to Turin FC , where he signed a two-year contract. He denied the second half of the 2008/09 season on loan from league competitor AC Siena , who had a purchase option, but did not take advantage of it.

For the 2009/10 season Nicola Amoruso moved to newly promoted FC Parma . During the winter break he left Parma and switched to Atalanta Bergamo . There he ended his active career in 2011.

titles and achievements

In the club

In the national team

Trivia

  • In the summer of 2006 Nicola Amoruso was questioned by Alessandro Moggi, the son of Luciano Moggi , about the circumstances of his move to SSC Napoli in 2001 and to AC Perugia in 2002 as part of an investigation against the player agency GEA World . It was believed that the player had been pressured to agree to the changes.
  • Nicola Amoruso is not, as is often claimed, the brother of Alessandro Del Piero's wife Sonia Amoruso.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amoruso al Toro. (No longer available online.) Www.torinofc.it, July 8, 2008, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 ; Retrieved July 10, 2008 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Amoruso al Siena. (No longer available online.) Www.torinofc.it, February 2, 2009, archived from the original on September 30, 2011 ; Retrieved February 2, 2009 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Amoruso verso l'Atalanta, Acquafresca al Genoa ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Amoruso, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 29th August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Cerignola , Italy