Alessandro Melli
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 11 December 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Agrigento, Italy | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985–1994 |
Parma | 199 | (52) |
1988–1989 |
→ Modena (loan) | 8 | (0) |
1994–1995 |
Sampdoria | 8 | (1) |
1995 |
Milan | 6 | (1) |
1995–1997 |
Parma | 42 | (4) |
1997–2000 |
Perugia | 51 | (3) |
2000 |
Ancona | 13 | (4) |
Total | 327 | (65) | |
International career | |||
1988 | Italy U18 | 2 | (0) |
1989–1992 | Italy U21 | 20 | (8) |
1993 | Italy | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alessandro "Sandro" Melli (Italian pronunciation: [(ales)ˈsandro ˈmɛlli]; born 11 December 1969) is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker. He won five team honours in his professional career.[1]
Club career
Melli's father was a professional footballer, playing as a
Parma AC, and the son followed in his footsteps. He made his Parma debut aged 17, and was part of the team that was promoted from the third to the top level
.
After a loan spell at
the final of which he scored), being part of an attacking line-up that featured also Faustino Asprilla, Tomas Brolin and Gianfranco Zola
.
Melli left Parma in 1994, spending six months each at
A.C. Milan (who swapped Ruud Gullit for him), before returning to the Ennio Tardini after a year away. This lasted two years, but he did not manage to recapture his old form. In total, Melli scored 56 goals in 241 games for Parma.[1]
He was transferred to
A.C. Ancona
.
After retiring, Melli eventually rejoined former side Parma's non-playing staff, serving as general manager.[2]
International career
During Parma's heyday, Melli was awarded with two caps for Italy, which came in the team's 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Estonia.
Previously, in 1992, he appeared at the
UEFA European Championship
.
Honours
Club
Parma[1]
Milan[1]
International
Italy U-21[1]
- 1992
References
- ^ )
- ^ "Organigramma" [Organigram] (in Italian). Parma FC. Archived from the original on 26 November 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Alessandro Melli – FIFA competition record (archived)
External links
- Alessandro Melli at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
- National team data (in Italian)[dead link]
- Alessandro Melli at National-Football-Teams.com
- "Sicilian players in Italy's national team" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2009.