
Giuseppe Rossi Signs with Real Salt Lake
Giuseppe Rossi Signs with Real Salt Lake
Forward Giuseppe Rossi signed Thursday with Soccer Real Salt Lake, 21 months when his last competitive match.
The 33-year-old from Clifton, New Jersey, had spent his entire skilled career in Europe when moving when he was twelve to affix Parma's youth academy. He has been derailed by 5 major knee injuries.
Rossi compete for Manchester United (04-2006), Newcastle (06), Parma (07), Villarreal (07-2012), Fiorentina (13-2017), Levante (2016), Celta Vigo (16-2017) and Genoa (17-2018).
His career was interrupted once he molding his right ACL against Real Madrid in October. He came back with Fiorentina in could 2013 on the ultimate day of the season and led Serie A with fourteen goals in seventeen matches once he sprained the medial collateral ligament within the knee against Livorno on Feb. 5, 2014.
Rossi was sidelined till the Italian final in could, then broken knee cartilage in August and was out for an additional year. whereas taking part in for Celta Vigo, he molding his left ACL against Eibar on April 9, 2017, and was sidelined till December, once he created his debut for Genoa.
He tested positive in could 2018 for an eye-pressure medication that's on the illegal list. In October, he Drew a warning instead of an annual suspension as a result of his use was found to be unintentional, in keeping with his attorney. Rossi took quite a year before signing with MLS.
Of Italian heritage, Rossi selected to play for the Azzurri instead of u. s. and scored seven goals in thirty appearances. He conjointly won the golden boot with four goals at the 2008 athletic contest, a tournament restricted principally to players beneath twenty-three.