Pepito Rossi returns to biancazzurro!

S.P.A.L. announces that it has signed a contract until June 30, 2023 with striker Giuseppe Rossi.

After last season's Ferrara experience, in which he scored three decisive goals in the club's 14 games played in Serie B, the 1987-born Italian-American striker is returning to the biancazzurra jersey in the present sports season as well.

Growing up in the youth academy of Parma, Rossi moved to Manchester United in the summer of 2004 and on October 15, 2005, he made his debut with the Red Devils in the match against Sunderland, also scoring his first goal in the English top division on his Premier League debut.

In 2006, he moved to Newcastle United, which he left in January 2007 to return to the yellow and blue jersey of Parma, with whom he scored nine goals in 19 matches in the 2006/2007 Serie A return round.

The following year he moved to Villareal with whom he collected 192 appearances and 82 goals in five seasons, participating in two editions of the Champions League and as many in the Europa League, a competition in which in 2010/2011 he was the second best scorer with 11 goals in 14 appearances.

In the summer of 2012, he arrived at Fiorentina where he played until 2017, with a six-month interlude in the 2015/2016 season among the ranks of Levante in La Liga. With the Viola he achieves his record of goals in Serie A, scoring 16 goals in 21 appearances in the 2013/2014 season.

He then lived an experience in Spain among the ranks of Celta Vigo and one again in Italy with Genoa, while in 2020 he joined the American team Real Salt Lake City with whom he recorded 7 appearances and 1 goal in Major League Soccer, the top U.S. soccer competition.

A lifelong member of the Italian youth national team, Rossi also boasts 30 appearances and 7 goals with the Italian senior national team and a participation in the Olympics with 4 appearances and 4 goals in Beijing 2008.

The new biancazzurro striker will wear jersey number 49.

Welcome back to Ferrara Pepito!