Corrado Grabbi
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| Corrado Grabbi | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Corrado Grabbi | |
| Date of birth | July 29, 1975 | |
| Place of birth | Turin, Italy | |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | none | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2004 2002 2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 |
Sparta Novara Juventus Lucchese Chievo Modena Ternana Ravenna Ternana Blackburn Rovers → Messina (loan) Ancona Genoa Arezzo Bellinzona |
31 (8) 2 (1) 8 (1) 18 (2) 58 (30) 14 (2) 29 (13) 34 (20) 30 (2) 12 (4) 7 (0) 25 (8) 7 (0) 6 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Corrado Grabbi (born July 29, 1975 in Turin) is an Italian football player. He plays as a striker, most recently for Bellinzona.
Grabbi began his career with Juventus youth team. He was promoted to first team and scored on his debut against Lazio, in one of his total two appearances in the 1994-1995 season. Unable to break into the team, because of his young age and the contemporary explosion of Alessandro Del Piero, he was loaned to Lucchese (76 games, 88 goals) and then Chievo (18 games, 2 goals) before switching to Modena. There he found some real form, scoring 88 times in 70 appearances. This performance saw him signed by Ternana, where he played for one season before been loaned to Ravenna Calcio where he scored 13 goals. Back to Ternana he was again a regular scorer, with 91 goals in 84 games and became idol for the local supporters, who still remember him as the best player to ever have played for Ternana.
His brilliant season with Ternana saw him attract attention of various Serie A clubs, including Udinese and AC Milan. But apparently Luciano Moggi of Juventus, who had previously pressured Grabbi to change his agent and join GEA World with no success, made it impossible for Ciccio to play in Italy, so in 2001 he was signed by Blackburn Rovers for a record fee of £6.75 million in July 2001, but due to injuries and sheer lack of talent he failed to repeat this progress, scoring just once in fourteen games. Grabbi's move to Blackburn is widely regarded as one of the worst transfers in the history of the English Premier League.[1][2][3]
A loan spell back in Italy with Messina where he scored 2 goals in the final game and saved Messina from relegation, failed to reignite his form, and after a further 16 games (and 1 last minute goal in the 2-2 draw against Liverpool[4]) with Blackburn, who had meantime signed ex-Manchester United strikers Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole, he was allowed to return to Italy permanently with Ancona in 2004. After spending 1 year without a team, trying to recover from the injury caused by a rare form of foot disease (Leveraus Morb) which had afflicted him for the past 3 seasons, he joined Genoa of Serie C1/A in September 2005. With his new team, he gained promotion to Serie B on playoffs scoring 9 goals in 25 games. Before the return playoff final, Grabbi announced he was considering retiring from football, because of his physical conditions, but later he declared he was persuaded to go on by the Genoa supporters and fellow players, as well as club president Enrico Preziosi. Preziosi though decided then that Genoa did not need Grabbi anymore, so during the 2007 winter transfer window, Grabbi signed for Arezzo, still in Serie B, after having never made a single appearance in the first half of the season for Genoa. After relegation with Arezzo, scoring no goals, Grabbi signed a contract with AC Bellinzona, a team from the Swiss Challenge League (second division). Ciccio scored the winning goal (his first after more than 1 year) in the Swiss Cup game Bellinzona-Gossau: 2-1[5].
Grabbi was also directly involved in the Calciopoli scandal of summer 2006 as a victim: It was in fact only then that Ciccio could tell the media what Luciano Moggi had done to affect his career: after Ciccio Grabbi had refused to drop his Agent in favour of Luciano Moggi's son, Moggi told him "you will never play football again, if not in my garden!" Grabbi was propriety of Juventus until he was sold to Ternana.
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