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Alessandro Pistone
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| Alessandro Pistone | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alessandro Pistone | |
| Date of birth | July 27, 1975 (age 31) | |
| Place of birth | Milan, Italy | |
| Nickname | Sandro | |
| Playing position | Full-back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Everton | |
| Number | 23 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–2000 2000–present |
Solbiatese Crevalcore Vicenza Internazionale Newcastle United Everton |
20 (1) 29 (4) 6 (0) 45 (1) 46 (1) 103 (1) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1995–97 1996 |
Italy U-21 Italy Olympic |
11 (2) 2 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Alessandro Pistone (born July 27, 1975 in Milan) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Everton.
He started his career at Solbiatese and Crevalcore, two small Italian teams who in recent years have slid to the lowest tier of professional Italian football, before moving to Vicenza for the duration of the 1995-96 season. He transferred to Internazionale for season 1996-97 before Newcastle United manager Kenny Dalglish snapped him up for 4.3 million pounds in July 1997. He played in the losing FA Cup final against Arsenal. Though during season 1998-99 he was essentially out of action for Newcastle, this season did include a four-month loan tenure at Venezia.
He transferred to Everton and appeared in the first match of the 2000-01 season, before being beset by a year full of injuries, including a six-month layoff for a knee injury. Throughout the following season he also suffered a major injury, thus missing most of the campaign.
During the next season, however, he notched his first goal for the club against Bolton Wanderers.
Though initially his future looked bleak after David Moyes would only offer Pistone a one year contract which Pistone refused to sign but he later offered a two year contract due to a left-back crisis and having played in the vast majority of games through 2004-05, he returned to the first-team lineup for the 2005-06 season. However he soon received a cruciate knee ligament injury which ended his season prematurely. He is currently battling for the left-back position with Nuno Valente and Scottish International Gary Naysmith.
He played for Italy at the 1996 Olympics.
- Alessandro Pistone career stats at Soccerbase
- FIGC (Italian)
| Everton F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Wright | 2 Hibbert | 3 Naysmith | 4 Yobo | 6 Arteta | 7 Van der Meyde | 8 Johnson | 9 Beattie | 11 McFadden | 15 Stubbs | 16 Lescott | 17 Cahill | 18 Neville | 19 Valente | 21 Osman | 22 Vaughan | 23 Pistone | 24 Howard | 26 Carsley | 28 Anichebe | 30 Ruddy | 36 Boyle | 37 Fernandes | 38 Anderson | 41 Viðarsson | Manager: Moyes |
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