Manuela Giugliano

Manuela Giugliano
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-08-18) 18 August 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Roma
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 ACFD Pordenone 16 (1)
2014–2015 ASD Torres Calcio 22 (3)
2015–2016 ASD Mozzanica 15 (10)
2016–2017 Verona 21 (15)
2017–2018 ACF Brescia 22 (3)
2018–2019 Milan 20 (3)
2019– Roma 97 (26)
International career‡
2012–2014 Italy U17 22 (14)
2014–2015 Italy U19 6 (5)
2014– Italy 77 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Manuela Giugliano (born 18 August 1997) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Roma[1] and the Italy national football team.

Club career

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Giugliano played for ACFD Pordenone before joining ASD Torres Calcio in 2014.[2] The following year she signed for ASD Mozzanica. In the summer of 2016, Giugliano agreed to move abroad and play for Primera Iberdrola side Atlético Madrid but then reversed her decision to move to Spain for personal reasons. On 22 September 2016, she returned to her native Italy to sign for AGSM Verona. She then joined ACF Brescia in 2017 before moving to Milan the next season as part of Milan's acquisition of Brescia's Serie A license.

After a single season spent with AC Milan, Giugliano then moved to Roma on 16 July 2019. The move was seen as a coup for Roma,[3] given the Serie A club were signing Giugliano from rivals AC Milan and following Giugliano's performances with Italy at the 2019 World Cup.

During her first season with Roma, and largely owed to her performances with Italy during the 2019 World Cup, Giugliano won Italian football's Female Player of the Year award at the 2019 Gran Galà del Calcio.

Currently, Roma is Giugliano's first and only club in her senior career where she has chosen to stay longer than 12 months, going as far as to sign a three-year contract extension in August 2020.[4] Giugliano then went on to become part of Roma's victorious Coppa Italia 2021 campaign,[5] helping the club to win its first major trophy since A.S. Roma's inception in 2018.

International career

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Giugliano was called up to be part of the Italy U17 for the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, where she played six games and scored three goals.[6] She was called up to be part of the U17 national team for the 2014 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship.[2] She made her senior debut in a 2–1 win against Ukraine on 25 October 2014.[7] She scored her first international goal in a 6–1 win against Georgia on 18 September 2015, scoring in the 23rd minute.[8]

She was included by manager Antonio Cabrini in Italy's squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017.[9] Giugliano was also called up to Milena Bertolini's Italy squad for the 2019 World Cup, after a 20-year absence from the tournament for the Azzurre, where Giugliano's performances in the Italy midfield took plaudits around the world and helped Italy reach the quarter-finals. In an April 2020 interview with Marco Migaleddu, Giugliano claimed her World Cup performance against Brazil in the group stage won her many loyal Brazilian fans who still follow her career today. In 2021, Giugliano was part of Bertolini's Italy team that qualified for the UEFA Euro 2022 tournament.[10]

Style of play

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Manuela Giugliano is a versatile talent who is able to carry out defensive, attacking and transition play to a very high degree of execution. She initially relied on her ball-striking technique and dead-ball technique to mould herself as an attacking midfielder at youth and senior level. However, it was her move to Brescia that sparked a re-think of her career, as Giugliano chose to move back deeper into midfield and rely on her ability to intercept passes in order to influence games. She cites Andrea Pirlo as a role model for this phase of her career.[11]

Giugliano's defensive qualities earned her a key role with Milena Bertolini's Italy, as well as inheriting the number 10 jersey with Roma. She retains the vision to make accurate and early long-range passes to the frontline, from deep midfield, as well as the ability to find key passes into the box when Giugliano moves further up the pitch. Her set-piece ability also makes her a frequent source of assists from corners, for both club and country.

Personal life

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Giugliano is lesbian.[12] She grew up in Istrana, in the Treviso area, but all her family are from Naples.[13]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 1 May 2024[14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Coppa Italia Continental[a] Other[b] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Pordenone 2013–14 Serie A 16 1 ? ? — — 16 1
Torres 2014–15 Serie A 23 3 2 1 3 0 — 28 4
Mozzanica 2015–16 Serie A 15 10 3 1 — — 18 11
Verona 2016–17 Serie A 21 15 3 2 1 0 1 0 26 17
Brescia 2017–18 Serie A 22 3 6 0 4 0 1 0 33 3
A.C. Milan 2018–19 Serie A 20 3 4 3 — — 24 6
A.S. Roma 2019–20 Serie A 12 2 1 0 — — 13 2
2020–21 Serie A 21 4 1 0 — 1 0 23 4
2021–22 Serie A 19 4 6 2 — 1 0 26 6
2022–23 Serie A 23 6 4 1 12 3 1 0 40 10
2023–24 Serie A 22 10 4 1 8 5 1 0 35 16
Total 97 26 16 4 20 8 3 0 137 38
Career total 214 61 34 11 28 8 6 0 282 70
  1. ^ includes UEFA Women's Champions League
  2. ^ includes Supercoppa Italiana

International

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As of match played 9 April 2024[15]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Italy 2014 1 0
2015 5 1
2016 0 0
2017 6 1
2018 10 1
2019 19 2
2020 2 0
2021 7 1
2022 12 1
2023 13 2
2024 2 0
Total 77 9
Scores and results list Italy's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Giuliano goal.
List of international goals scored by Manuela Giuliano
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 18 September 2015 Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy  Georgia 2–1 6–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
2. 8 March 2017 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Czech Republic 6–2 6–2 2017 Cyprus Women's Cup
3. 5 March 2018 AEK Arena, Larnaca, Cyprus  Finland 2–2 2–2 2018 Cyprus Women's Cup
4. 8 October 2019 Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
5. 12 November 2019 Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro, Italy  Malta 4–0 5–0
6. 24 February 2021 Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy  Israel 12–0 12–0
7. 2 September 2022 Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova  Moldova 1–0 8–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
8. 16 February 2023 Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, England  Belgium 1–1 1–2 2023 Arnold Clark Cup
9. 5 December 2023 Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma, Italy  Switzerland 1–0 3–0 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
10. 4 June 2024 Stadio Paolo Mazza, Ferrara, Italy  Norway 1–0 1–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
11. 16 July 2024 Stadio Druso, Bolzano, Italy  Finland 2–0 4–0

Honours

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Brescia

Roma

Italy U17

Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Manuela Giugliano". www.asroma.com (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "MANUELA GIUGLIANO SIGNS WITH TORRES CALCIO". Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. ^ bren (16 July 2019). "Official: Roma Signs Manuela Giugliano". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  4. ^ bren (10 August 2020). "Official: Manuela Giugliano Extends Roma Contract Through 2023". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  5. ^ bren (31 May 2021). "Roma Wins 2021 Coppa Italia in Penalty Shootout". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Squad List". Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  7. ^ "UEFA play-off semi-final, First leg". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Qualifying group stage - Group 6". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Ufficializzata la lista delle 23 Azzurre convocate per il Campionato Europeo" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  10. ^ "Manuela Giugliano - Italy - WEURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Giugliano, faro della Roma e delle Nazionale: "È Pirlo il più grande"". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Mês do orgulho LGBTQ+: Conheça os casais da Copa do Mundo de Futebol Feminino". www.msn.com.
  13. ^ "The Big Interview: AS Roma x Manuela Giugliano". www.asroma.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Italy - M. Giugliano - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
  15. ^ "Jamaica - M. Giugliano - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
  16. ^ a b "Gran Gala del Calcio 2019 winners". Football Italia. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
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