Luciano Galletti

Luciano Martín Galletti (born 9 April 1980 in La Plata) is an Argentine soccer right winger (sport). As of June 2005 he has played 13 matches and scored 3 goals for the Argentina national football team.

His career began in Estudiantes de La Plata, where his father Rubén Horacio Galletti played as right wing during the 1970s. He was top goalscorer at the 1999 South American Youth Championship, ahead of players like Ronaldinho and Roque Santa Cruz. Galletti was bought by Italian Serie A club Parma A.C], but failed to break through in Italian football, so he returned to Argentina for a short time. He then played four seasons for Real Zaragoza, where he won the Copa del Rey before joining Atlético Madrid in 2005, in a fee of €4m.

On 30 June 2007, he was bought by Olympiacos for a reported fee of €2.5m, while he signed a four year contract with an annual salary of 1.3M.

Interestingly, Olympiacos is the 3rd team wearing a red-white striped shirt that Luciano Galletti will represent, after Estudiantes de La Plata and Atlético Madrid

Playing career

- 1997/98 - Estudiantes de La Plata (13/1)
- 1998/99 - Estudiantes de La Plata (24/1)
- 1999/00 - Parma F.C. (11/2)
- 2000/01 - Estudiantes de La Plata (28/9)
- 2001/02 - Real Zaragoza (27/2)
- 2002/03 - Real Zaragoza (37/8)
- 2003/04 - Real Zaragoza (34/3)
- 2004/05 - Real Zaragoza (37/2)
- 2005/06 - Atlético Madrid (26/1)
- 2006/07 - Atlético Madrid (36/4)
- 2007/08 - Olympiacos (1/0)

Honours

- Copa del Rey: 2004 (with Real Zaragoza)
- South American Youth Championship: 1999

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