Alessio Cerci

Infobox Football biography
playername = Alessio Cerci


height = height|m=1.80
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1987|7|23
cityofbirth = Velletri
countryofbirth = Italy
currentclub = Atalanta
clubnumber = 11
position = Winger
youthyears =
youthclubs = Roma
years = 2004-
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-
clubs = Roma
→ Brescia (loan)
→ Pisa (loan)
→ Atalanta (loan)
caps(goals) = 004 0(0)
021 0(0)
026 (10)
000 0(0)
nationalyears = 2003
2003-2004
2004
2004-2006
2005-2006
2007-
nationalteam = flagicon|Italy|size=15px Italy U-16
flagicon|Italy|size=15px Italy U-17
flagicon|Italy|size=15px Italy U-18
flagicon|Italy|size=15px Italy U-19
flagicon|Italy|size=15px Italy U-20
fbu|21|Italy|size=15px|name=Italy U-21
nationalcaps(goals) = 006 0(2)
009 0(3)
003 0(1)
009 0(1)
003 0(1)
003 0(1)
pcupdate = April 19 2008
ntupdate = February 6 2008

Alessio Cerci (born July 23, 1987 in Velletri, Rome) is an Italian footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Atalanta.

Biography

Cerci was born in Velletri, but grew up in the Roman neighbuorhood of Valmontone.

He was a regular for the A.S. Roma youth team that won the Campionato Primavera 2004-05. In this period he was nicknamed "Henry from Valmontone" [ [http://www.romanews.eu/news.asp?newsID=1441&pag=2 CERCI: IL MIO SOGNO È TORNARE A ROMA] ] due to his playing style.

On May 16, 2004, the last match of the Serie A 2003-04 season, he made his official debut for Roma, at the age of 17. He replaced Daniele Corvia in the 77th minute of the game, and in only 15 minutes he came close to scoring after having dribbled Sampdoria's defender Giulio Falcone.fact|date=November 2007

In the following two seasons he made only 4 appearances, none of them starts, and was thus loaned to Serie B team Brescia Calcio for the season 2006-07, a relatively unsuccessful spell.

The following year he was loaned to Pisa Calcio, and quickly became a regular of the team coached by Giampiero Ventura. He scored his first official goal in professional football on September 9, 2007 against Cesena, while only two months later, on November 9, after having scored 8 goals in 14 matches and helped the Tuscan team to reach the top of the table, he was called up for the Italy national under-21 football team by Pierluigi Casiraghi [ [http://www.figc.it/italiano/primo_piano_03/primo_piano_03.htm OSVALDO E CERCI LE NOVITA' DI CASIRAGHI PER IL DOPPIO IMPEGNO CON AZERBAIJAN E FAR OER] ] and scored his first goal for Italy in his debut during the 2009 European Championship qualifying match against Azerbaijan on 16 November 2007.

External links

*it [http://www.atalanta.it/atalanta/show.do?dispatch=page&area=cerci Atalanta B.C. Official Player Profile]
* [http://www.j1897.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=85353 Alessio Cerci Profile, on J1897.com]

References