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Valerio Virga
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| Valerio Virga | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Valerio Virga | |
| Date of birth | June 6, 1986 | |
| Place of birth | Rome, Italy | |
| Height | 1.81 m | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | A.S. Roma | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| A.S. Roma | ||
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2004-2005 2005 2005-2006 2006- |
A.S. Roma U.S. Città di Palermo Ascoli Calcio 1898 loan A.S. Roma |
6 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 4 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2006- | Italy U-21 | 1 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Valerio Virga (born June 6, 1986 in Rome) is an Italian footballer, currently playing for Serie A side AS Roma. He was born in Rome. He is recognised as great talent and is excpected to become a even more skillful forward.
A product of the AS Roma youth academy and one of the bright prospects of the giallorossi, Virga usually plays as midfielder. He made his Serie A debut on April 10, 2005, in an away league match against Udinese Calcio ended 3-3. He made six appearances in season 2004/2005, but never scored a goal.
In 2005/2006, he was signed by Palermo in a joint ownership with AS Roma, and then loaned to Ascoli Calcio 1898, where however he never played a game and was instead relegated to the youth squad. He returned to AS Roma in 2006/2007.
He scored his first goal for Roma in the Coppa Italia match in the 1/16 final against Triestina on 29 November 2006. He scored to 1-0. Roma won the match 2-0.
He played his first Champions League match against Valencia on 5 December, 2006. Roma won the match 1-0.
He made his U-21 team debut against Luxembourg U-21, 12 December 2006, played the first half of the match.
- FIGC (Italian)
| A.S. Roma - Current Squad |
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1 Curci | 2 Panucci | 3 Martínez | 4 Wilhelmsson | 5 Mexès | 7 Pizarro | 8 Aquilani | 10 Totti | 11 Taddei | 12 Pipolo | 13 Chivu | 14 Faty | 16 De Rossi | 17 Tavano | 18 Virga | 19 Defendi | 20 Perrotta | 21 Ferrari | 22 Tonetto | 23 Vučinić | 27 Julio Sergio | 28 Rosi | 30 Mancini | 32 Doni | 35 Okaka | 77 Cassetti | Coach Spalletti |
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