Manuela Giugliano

Manuela Giugliano

Personal information
Date of birth	(1997-08-18) 18 August 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth	Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Roma
Number	10
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2014	ACFD Pordenone	16	(1)
2014–2015	ASD Torres Calcio	22	(3)
2015–2016	ASD Mozzanica	15	(10)
2016–2017	Verona	21	(15)
2017–2018	ACF Brescia	22	(3)
2018–2019	Milan	20	(3)
2019–	Roma	76	(16)
International career‡
2012–2014	Italy U17	22	(14)
2014–2015	Italy U19	6	(5)
2014–	Italy	71	(8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:53, 25 September 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:53, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Manuela Giugliano (born 18 August 1997) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Roma ^[1] in Italy's Serie A and the Italy women's national football team.

Club career

Giugliano played for ACFD Pordenone before joining ASD Torres Calcio in 2014. ^[2] The following year she signed for ASD Mozzanica. In the summer of 2016, Giugliano agreed to move abroad and play for Primera Iberdrola side Atletico Madrid but then reversed her decision to move to Spain for personal reasons. On 22 September 2016, she returned to her native Italy to sign for AGSM Verona. She then joined ACF Brescia in 2017 before moving to Milan the next season as part of Milan's acquisition of Brescia's Serie A license.

After a single season spent with AC Milan, Giugliano then moved to Roma on 16 July 2019. The move was seen as a coup for Roma, ^[3] given the Serie A club were signing Giugliano from rivals AC Milan and following Giugliano's performances with Italy at the 2019 World Cup.

During her first season with Roma, and largely owed to her performances with Italy during the 2019 World Cup, Giugliano won Italian football's Female Player of the Year award at the 2019 Gran Galà del Calcio.

Currently, Roma is Giugliano's first and only club in her senior career where she has chosen to stay longer than 12 months, going as far as to sign a three-year contract extension in August 2020. ^[4] Giugliano then went on to become part of Roma's victorious Coppa Italia 2021 campaign, ^[5] helping the club to win its first major trophy since A.S. Roma's inception in 2018.

International career

Giugliano was called up to be part of the Italy U17 for the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, where she played six games and scored three goals. ^[6] She was called up to be part of the U17 national team for the 2014 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. ^[2] She made her senior debut in a 2–1 win against Ukraine on 25 October 2014. ^[7] She scored her first international goal in a 6–1 win against Georgia on 18 September 2015, scoring in the 23rd minute. ^[8]

She was included by manager Antonio Cabrini in Italy's squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. ^[9] Giugliano was also called up to Milena Bertolini's Italy squad for the 2019 World Cup, after a 20-year absence from the tournament for the Azzurre, where Giugliano's performances in the Italy midfield took plaudits around the world and helped Italy reach the quarter-finals. In an April 2020 interview with Marco Migaleddu, Giugliano claimed her World Cup performance against Brazil in the group stage won her many loyal Brazilian fans who still follow her career today. In 2021, Giugliano was part of Bertolini's Italy team that qualified for the UEFA Euro 2022 tournament. ^[10]

Style of play

Manuela Giugliano is a versatile talent who is able to carry out defensive, attacking and transition play to a very high degree of execution. She initially relied on her ball-striking technique and dead-ball technique to mould herself as an attacking midfielder at youth and senior level. However, it was her move to Brescia that sparked a re-think of her career, as Giugliano chose to move back deeper into midfield and rely on her ability to intercept passes in order to influence games. She cites Andrea Pirlo as a role model for this phase of her career. ^[11]

Giugliano's defensive qualities earned her a key role with Milena Bertolini's Italy, as well as inheriting the number 10 jersey with Roma. She retains the vision to make accurate and early long-range passes to the frontline, from deep midfield, as well as the ability to find key passes into the box when Giugliano moves further up the pitch. Her set-piece ability also makes her a frequent source of assists from corners, for both club and country.

Personal life

Giugliano is lesbian. ^[12] She grew up in Istrana, in the Treviso area, but all her family are from Naples. ^[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 September 2023 ^[14]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Coppa Italia		Continental [lower-alpha 1]		Other [lower-alpha 2]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Pordenone	2013–14	Serie A	16	1	?	?	–		–		16	1
Torres	2014–15	Serie A	23	3	2	1	3	0	–		28	4
Mozzanica	2015–16	Serie A	15	10	3	1	–		–		18	11
Verona	2016–17	Serie A	21	15	3	2	1	0	1	0	26	17
Brescia	2017–18	Serie A	22	3	6	0	4	0	1	0	33	3
A.C. Milan	2018–19	Serie A	20	3	4	3	–		–		24	6
A.S. Roma	2019–20	Serie A	12	2	1	0	–		–		13	2
	2020–21	Serie A	21	4	1	0	–		–		22	4
	2021–22	Serie A	19	4	6	2	–		1	0	26	6
	2022–23	Serie A	23	6	4	1	12	3	1	0	40	10
	2023–24	Serie A	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Total		76	16	12	3	12	3	2	0	102	22
Career total			193	51	30	10	20	3	4	0	247	64

1. includes UEFA Women's Champions League
2. includes Supercoppa Italiana

International

As of match played 23 September 2023 ^[15]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Italy	2014	1	0
	2015	5	1
	2016	0	0
	2017	6	1
	2018	10	1
	2019	19	2
	2020	2	0
	2021	7	1
	2022	12	1
	2023	9	1
Total		71	8

Scores and results list Italy's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Giuliano goal.

List of international goals scored by Manuela Giuliano

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	18 September 2015	Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy	Georgia	2–1	6–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
2.	8 March 2017	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Czech Republic	6–2	6–2	2017 Cyprus Women's Cup
3.	5 March 2018	AEK Arena, Larnaca, Cyprus	Finland	2–2	2–2	2018 Cyprus Women's Cup
4.	8 October 2019	Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–0	2–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
5.	12 November 2019	Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro, Italy	Malta	4–0	5–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
6.	24 February 2021	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy	Israel	12–0	12–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
7.	2 September 2022	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova	Moldova	1–0	8–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
8.	16 February 2023	Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom	Belgium	1–1	1–2	2023 Arnold Clark Cup

Honours

Brescia

• Supercoppa Italiana: 2017

Roma

• Coppa Italia: 2020-21
• Supercoppa Italiana: 2022-23

Italy U17

• FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Third-place: 2014
• UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship Third-place: 2014

Individual

• AIC Best Women's Player: 2019 ^[16]
• AIC Best Women's XI: 2019, 2020 ^[16]
• Pallone Azzurro: 2015

References

1. "Manuela Giugliano". www.asroma.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
2. "MANUELA GIUGLIANO SIGNS WITH TORRES CALCIO". Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
3. bren (2019-07-16). "Official: Roma Signs Manuela Giugliano". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
4. bren (2020-08-10). "Official: Manuela Giugliano Extends Roma Contract Through 2023". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
5. bren (2021-05-31). "Roma Wins 2021 Coppa Italia in Penalty Shootout". Chiesa Di Totti. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
6. "Squad List". Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
7. "UEFA play-off semi-final, First leg". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
8. "Qualifying group stage - Group 6". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
9. "Ufficializzata la lista delle 23 Azzurre convocate per il Campionato Europeo" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
10. "Manuela Giugliano - Italy - WEURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
11. "Giugliano, faro della Roma e delle Nazionale: "È Pirlo il più grande"". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-06-16.
12. "Mês do orgulho LGBTQ+: Conheça os casais da Copa do Mundo de Futebol Feminino". www.msn.com.
13. "The Big Interview: AS Roma x Manuela Giugliano". www.asroma.com. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
14. "Italy - M. Giugliano - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
15. "Jamaica - M. Giugliano - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
16. "Gran Gala del Calcio 2019 winners". Football Italia. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

• Manuela Giugliano at Soccerway
• Manuela Giugliano – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Manuela Giugliano – UEFA competition record ( archive )
• Profile at LTA Agency