Matteo Paro

Matteo Paro

Paro playing for Juventus in 2006
Personal information
Date of birth	(1983-03-17) 17 March 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Asti, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Southampton (assistant)
Youth career
2000–2002	Juventus
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2003	Juventus	1	(0)
2003–2005	Chievo	0	(0)
2004–2005	→ Crotone (loan)	54	(5)
2005–2006	Siena	28	(0)
2006–2007	Juventus	28	(1)
2007–2012	Genoa	20	(0)
2009–2010	→ Bari (loan)	0	(0)
2010	→ Piacenza (loan)	4	(0)
2010–2012	→ Vicenza (loan)	47	(4)
2013–2014	SPAL	12	(0)
2014–2015	Mantova	29	(2)
2015–2016	Crotone	13	(0)
International career
2003	Italy U-20	6	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Matteo Paro (born 17 March 1983) is an Italian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current assistant coach to Ivan Jurić at Southampton.

Playing career

Juventus

Paro made his Serie A debut on 17 May 2003, in a 2–1 loss to Reggina.

Chievo

In the summer of 2003, Juventus sold half of Paro's contract to Chievo in July for €450,000 total fee along with Sculli and Gastaldello as part of the deal that sent defender Nicola Legrottaglie the other way.[1] Paro himself was valued for €50,000 only (50% rights).

Siena

In 2005, Juventus bought back all three for €1.05 million (€350,000 each). But Paro and Gastaldello were sold to Siena in another joint-ownership deal for €450,000 each.

Return to Juventus

In 2006, Juventus was relegated to Serie B and bought back Paro's 50% rights from Siena for an undisclosed fee. He also holds the distinction of scoring Juventus' first ever Serie B goal during a 1–1 away draw with Rimini on 9 September 2006.[2]

Genoa

In summer 2007, he was sold to Genoa in a joint-ownership deal for €1.5 million and reunited with Sculli. Also Gastaldello joined Genoa's crosscity rivals U.C. Sampdoria.

Juventus received another €2 million for the player in June 2008.[3]

In July 2009, Paro joined newly promoted side Bari on loan. The club also signed Riccardo Meggiorini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Ranocchia (loan) and Giuseppe Greco (loan) from Genoa. On 29 January 2010, Bari loaned the midfielder to Piacenza.

Vicenza

In the summer of 2010, he left on loan for Vicenza. In the summer of 2011, Danilo Russo returned to Genoa, and Paro joined Vicenza in another temporary deal.

Coaching career

After spending his two final seasons as a player at Mantova and Crotone, both times under head coach Ivan Jurić, Paro retired in order to join the Croatian's staff in 2017 at Genoa, first as a match analyst. In 2019, he became Jurić's assistant coach at Hellas Verona, then following him in all of his successive coaching jobs at Torino, Roma and Southampton.[4]

References

1. Juventus Football Club: Accordo con la società A.C. Chievo Verona per l’acquisizione del calciatore Nicola Legrottaglie (in Italian)
2. "Juve, il debutto in B è un flop a Rimini trova solo un pareggio" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 9 September 2006. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
3. "Transfer market: joint-ownerships settled yesterday". Juventus FC. 26 June 2008. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
4. "Jurić's coaching additions confirmed". Southampton FC. 3 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2025.

External links

• Player Profile^[permanent dead link‍] at VicenzaCalcio.com (in Italian) ^[dead link‍]
• Matteo Paro at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)