Giovanni Rosso
Personal information
Full name	Giovanni Rosso [1]
Date of birth	November 17, 1972 (1972-11-17) (age 37)
Place of birth	Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Former Midfielder
Youth career
–1992	Hajduk Split
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1993 1993-1996 1996–1997 1997-2000 2000-2001 2001-2005 2005-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009	NK Zadar NK Zagreb Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Haifa Beitar Jerusalem Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Haifa Hajduk Split	30 (9) 64 (11) 34 (6) 89 (26) 33 (6) 101 (23) 52 (5) 28 (3) 4 (0)
National team
2002-2004	Croatia	19 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Đovani Roso (also Giovanni Rosso, born November 17, 1972) is a Croatian football player of Croatian & partly Italian ethnicity who plays his trade at Hajduk Split. Roso is a midfielder, who prefers to play on the center-right flank of the field. Roso is known in Israel for his technique and freekicks.^[2]

Roso was born in Split, Croatia, (then as SR Croatia, part of SFR Yugoslavia), in a family, whose grandfather was of Italian origins. He played for NK Zagreb between 1994 and 1996 before moving to Israel.

Roso's form in 2004 got him called up for Croatia, so he played for his birth country at Euro 2004. It was only later, in 2005, that he finally obtained Israeli permanent resident status. However he will never play for the Israeli national team, since he has already played for Croatia.

Roso speaks fluent Hebrew, and stated numerous times that he plans on coming back to live in Israel at the end of his Football career.

In media, his name is often italianized to Giovanni Rosso, due to its origins.

His return to Hajduk Split was ruined by injuries. He only ended up playing four times in the Croatian first league. He retired from club football in June 2009. It was said that he is to take up a coaching job at Hajduk.

[edit] Honours

• Israeli Championships (4):
  • 1998-99, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05

• Israel State Cup (1):
  • 1997

• Toto Cup (1):
  • 2001-02

• Israeli Player of the Year (2):
  • 1998-99, 2001-02^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Stats
• Stats at Maccabi Haifa

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