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Lorenzo Amoruso
Personal information
Full name Lorenzo Pier Luigi Amoruso
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1995 Bari 75 (8)
1991–1992 → Mantova (loan) 13 (1)
1992–1993 → Pescara (loan) 19 (1)
1995–1997 Fiorentina 54 (3)
1997–2003 Rangers 149 (13)
2003–2006 Blackburn Rovers 18 (3)
2008 Cosmos 0 (0)
Total 328 (26)
International career
Italy U-21 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lorenzo Pier Luigi Amoruso (born 28 June 1971 in Bari) is an Italian footballer, who last played for Sammarinese team Cosmos. Amoruso has played for seven teams in his footballing career but is perhaps best known for his six year spell with Glasgow side Rangers. In that six year spell, he managed to win nine major honours with the club including domestic trebles in seasons 1998/99 and 2002/03, representing them over 150 times in competitive football.

Club career

Italy

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Prior to coming to Scotland, he played for Italian clubs Bari, Mantova, Pescara, and Fiorentina, where he won the Italian Cup in 1996, as well as reaching the 1997 UEFA Cup Winners Cup semi-finals, losing out to the eventual champions Barcelona.

Rangers

Amoruso signed for Rangers on 29 May 1997 for a fee of £4 million. Whilst with the club he won the Scottish Premier League on three occasions, as well as the Scottish Cup three times and the Scottish League Cup three times. After missing most of his debut season with an achilles injury, he was installed as captain of Rangers by Dick Advocaat in 1998. After returning to the team Amoruso was booed by Rangers fans after several poor displays and tactical errors. Amoruso also clashed with the manager several times, resulting in an eventually aborted move to Sunderland. Advocaat began to sign defenders to replace Amoruso, Bert Konterman for example and also Paul Ritchie, but the Italian remained after his replacements failed. Ritchie did not make a single appearance while Konterman was criticised - particularly by his own fans - for being an expensive signing with minimal returns. In December 1999, Amoruso issued a public apology after directing racist comments at Borussia Dortmund's Nigerian striker Victor Ikpeba. Earlier that day his forceful denials appeared in several tabloid newspapers, but he was forced into what The Times called "an embarrassing change of position," when TV footage contradicted his story.

In the 2000–01 season, when the club exited the UEFA Champions League to Monaco partly because of another bad mistake by Amoruso, he was stripped of the captaincy (which went to the 22 year-old Barry Ferguson). Amoruso had captained the club for two years, the first ever Catholic to do so. He was left humiliated by the demotion and later accused Advocaat of trying to destroy him.

After Dick Advocaat's October 2000 attack on what he described as "fat necks" in his squad, reports named the Italian as a probable target. More errors had seen Amoruso again booed by his own teams' supporters.

Advocaat was later removed as manager and Amoruso rediscovered his form under new boss Alex McLeish; winning the 2002 Scottish PFA Players' Player of the Year. After a four-match ban for spitting on James Grady, he scored the winning goal in his final game for Rangers—the 2003 Scottish Cup final—and wept as he left the pitch.

In 2010, Amoruso was inducted into the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame.

Blackburn Rovers

Amoruso left Rangers in July 2003 to make a £1.4 million move to Blackburn, who wanted him as a replacement for Henning Berg. The sale was forced by Rangers' large debts. His Blackburn debut came on 16 August 2003. On the pitch for the full ninety minutes, his place in the team appeared justified as he scored the opening goal after 17 minutes. In October, a knee injury kept him out of the game for five months, which, coming at the end of a run of bad form, was somewhat of a boost. As he returned and came into the team on a sporadic basis playing only eighteen times for Blackburn. His 2004–05 season was marred by regular injuries and he did not play any part of the 2005–06 season. He was released by Rovers in the summer of 2006.

In January 2008, Amoruso came out of retirement to sign for Cosmos on a part-time basis.

International career

Amoruso represented Italy at the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship and won two caps at Under 21 level. He was never selected by Italy at full international level, which Amoruso attributed to a "strange mentality" - suggesting that players playing outside of Italy were continually being overlooked.

In 2004 Amoruso expressed a desire to play for Scotland, through residency. He said: "I began to feel like part of me was Scottish."

Personal life

Amoruso admitted in his 2002 biography that during his periods of injury he suffered from depression, loneliness and an addiction to Baileys Irish Cream. Reportedly drinking two to three bottles a week. Whilst at Rangers he was reported to have a hostile relationship with compatriots Marco Negri and Sergio Porrini.

Honours

Rangers

References

  1. "GO EASY ON THE AMO; Gough spares a thought for Lorenzo's toil". Daily Record. 1998-11-03. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  2. Mike Wade (2000-09-09). "Ritchie the Maine attraction puts Ibrox flop behind him". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  3. Peter Jardine (2000-12-09). "Advocaat's defence of A SQUAD THAT just can't meet great EXPECTATIONS; Reality check needed if you believe Rangers can be Europe's best". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  4. David Leggit (2001-04-21). "Football: BERT GETS A BASHING; Rangers 0 Dundee 2 Utd Fans go mad at top flop". The People. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  5. "Amoruso in race comment about-turn". BBC. 10 December 1999. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  6. ^ Phil Gordon (2000-12-10). "Amoruso admits racist taunts". The Times. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  7. Roger Hannah (2000-12-10). "Disgraceful in anyone's language..." The Daily Mail. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  8. Mark Guidi (2003-07-13). "Football: MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BE AT GERS; Big Amo signs off". Sunday Mail. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  9. FOOTBALL: Advocaat tore off armband and ripped out my heart; ADAPTED from LA CONFIDENTIAL: The Lorenzo Amoruso Story by David McCarthy and Keith Jackson priced pounds 9.99
  10. Mark Guidi (2004-10-24). "It would've been hard to play for a gaffer who set out to destroy me". Sunday Mail. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  11. Peter Jardine (2000-10-24). "Rangers need to be hungry again". The Daily Mail. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  12. Colin Duncan (2000-12-13). "Football: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF LORENZO". Daily Record. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  13. Stephen Halliday (2003-03-19). "Amoruso banned for four games for spitting". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  14. http://www.rangers.co.uk/articles/20100221/in-the-club_2254024_1973054
  15. "Blackburn sign Amoruso". BBC Sport. 2003-07-14. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
  16. "Rangers could lose Ferguson". BBC Sport. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
  17. "Cosmos starstruck by Amoruso arrival". UEFA website. February 14, 2008.
  18. "Football: AMO IS CUP AGAINST IT FOR A CAP". Sunday Mail. February 17, 2002.
  19. "Blackburn star: I may give Vogts more Amo". Liverpool Echo. February 17, 2004.
  20. Dani Garavelli (2002-11-17). "Amoruso's cream cracker". Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  21. Charlie Gall (2003-08-30). "Sex before marriage is my biggest weakness; Amo confesses". Daily Record. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  22. Iain Campbell (2003-06-24). "Football: Quiet man Lorenzo was more Bailey's & nice than hellraiser; EXCLUSIVE: Former Gers hero Alan McLaren on old pal's Rovers' move WHEN HE ARRIVED AT IBROX STAR WAS SHY GUY". The Mirror. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

External links

PFA Scotland Players' Player of the Year

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