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Luciano Galletti
Personal information
Full name	Luciano Martín Galletti
Date of birth	April 9, 1980 (1980-04-09) (age 29)
Place of birth	Mar de Plata, Argentina
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Olympiacos
Number	7
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–1999 1999 1999–2000 2000–2001 2001–2005 2005–2007 2007–	Estudiantes Parma SSC Napoli Estudiantes Real Zaragoza Atlético Madrid Olympiacos	037 0(2) 000 0(0) 020 0(2) 028 0(9) 134 (14) 062 0(5) 059 (19)
National team
2002-	Argentina	013 0(3)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 July 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Luciano Martín Galletti (born 9 April 1980 in Mar de Plata) is an Argentine football right winger currently playing for Olympiacos FC in Greece. He has represented the Argentine national team in thirteen matches and has scored three goals.

Playing career

Galletti's playing 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 scored the winning goal to win the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid. He then joined Atlético Madrid in 2005, in a fee of €4m.^[1]

On 30 June 2007, he was transferred to Greek club Olympiacos FC for a reported fee of €2.5m,^[2] while he signed a four year contract with an annual salary of 1.3 million. On July 8, 2009 Luciano Galletti signed a contract extension which will keep him to Piraeus till 2013. The new contract has a release clause fee of €15million.^[3]

Trivia

• Galletti has played for three teams that wear red and white striped shirts: Olympiacos, Estudiantes, and Atlético Madrid
• In his UEFA Champions League debut, Galletti found the back of the net after only 55 minutes.
• In his second season with Olympiakos F.C., he finishes as the top scorer of the Greek Super League, scoring 14 goals, along with AEK Athens' centre forward, Ismael Blanco.

Honours

Argentina

• South American Youth Championship: 1999*
• FIFA Confederations Cup: Runner-up 2005

Real Zaragoza

• Copa del Rey: 2004
• Supercopa de España: 2004

Olympiacos

• Greek Super Cup: 2007
• Super League Greece : 2008, 2009**
• Greek Cup: 2008, 2009

_{*1999:South American Youth Championship Top Goalscorer}

_{**2009:Super League Greece Top Goalscorer}

Footnotes

External links

• Galletti Goals YouTube 20 goals in one video
• Luciano Martín Galletti at FootballDatabase
• Statistics at Irish Times
• Luciano Galletti at Voetbal International (Dutch)

Argentina squad – 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Runners-up 1 Franco • 2 Samuel • 3 Sorín • 4 Zanetti • 5 Cambiasso • 6 Heinze • 7 Tévez • 8 Riquelme • 9 Saviola • 10 Aimar • 11 Delgado • 12 Lux • 13 G. Rodríguez • 14 Milito • 15 Placente • 16 Coloccini • 17 Bernardi • 18 Santana • 19 Maxi Rodríguez • 20 Demichelis • 21 Figueroa • 22 Galletti • 23 Caballero • Coach: Pekerman