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**Fabrizio Ravanelli**
Youth club(s)

Full name	Fabrizio Ravanelli
Nickname(s)	Penna Bianca (White Feather)
Date of birth	11 December 1968
Place of birth	Perugia, Italy
Current club	Retired
Position(s)	Striker
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Professional club(s)*
1986-1989 1989 1989-1990 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1996 1996-1998 1998-2000 2000-2001 2001-2003 2003 2004-2005	Perugia Avellino Casertana Avellino Reggiana Juventus Middlesbrough Olympique de Marseille Lazio Derby County Perugia	90 (41) 7 (0) 27 (12) 0 (0) 32 (8) 111 (41) 34 (17) 45 (21) 27 (4) 50 (14) 5 (0) 39 (9)
National team**
1993-1996	Italy	22 (8)
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Fabrizio Ravanelli (born in Perugia, December 11, 1968) is a former Italian soccer player. He has played with a half-dozen European teams, among them Perugia, Juventus, Marseille, Middlesbroughand Derby County. Perugia is the capital city in the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Perugia Calcio is a football club based in Perugia, Italy, direct heir of the old , excluded from Italian football because of financial troubles. ... Juventus Football Club (Latin for Youth, pronounced yoo-VEHN-toos) is one of Italys oldest and most successful football clubs, based in Turin. ... Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. ... Middlesbrough Football Club is an English football club, commonly known as The Boro, currently in the FA Premier League. ... Derby County Football Clubis an Englishfootballclub based in Derby, currently playing in the Football League Championship. ...

Known as the "White Feather" in recognition of his prematurely whitened hair he was one of Europe's top goalscorers in the late 1990s and made an immediate positive impact on moving into the English Premiership with Middlesbrough though his success was not sustained. Alienated himself from teammates and fans with his constant complaints and criticisms of Middlesbrough, despite reportedly being the highest paid footballer in the world at the time. FA Premier League logo The FA Premier League (which, for sponsorship/legal reasons, is often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in the UK and the Barclays English Premier League internationally) is a league competiton for English Football clubs located at the top of the English football league system (above...

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Liverpool - Middlesbrough 17.08.96 (769 words)
	Fabrizio Ravanelli wasted no time in repaying a huge chunk of his £7million transfer fee with a stunning hat-trick on his Premiership debut for Middlesbrough.
	Ravanelli struck twice in the first half, once from the penalty spot, and the Italian international completed his hat-trick with nine minutes to go.
	Fabrizio Ravanelli left Middlesbrough tonight clutching the match ball and the number 11 shirt -- souvenirs from an extraordinary Premier debut.

Ravanelli will join Rams insists agent - Football News - Telegraph (654 words)
	FABRIZIO RAVANELLI'S protracted transfer from Lazio to Derby County will be completed by the end of the week, according to the player's agent.
	Paladini, Ravanelli's UK-based representative, attempted to explain the reasons for the delay and warned that it would be foolish for the former Italian international to rush into the move before all the loose ends were tied up in Italy.
	He liked the player, they had a nice meeting and Fabrizio had a feeling that it was the right move for him, plus the fact that he would play football every week and that is what he wants to do.

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