Simone Barone

Simone Barone Ufficiale OMRI[2][3] (Italian pronunciation: [siˈmoːne baˈroːne]; born 30 April 1978) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder. He currently works as a manager for Serie A club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio's youth team. He played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, before coming to prominence with Palermo. At international level, he was part of the Italian side that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and represented the national side on 16 occasions between 2004 and 2006, scoring once.

Simone Barone
Personal information
Full name Simone Barone[1]
Date of birth (1978-04-30) 30 April 1978
Place of birth Nocera Inferiore, Italy
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Central Midfielder
Youth career
1995–1997 Parma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2000 Parma 2 (0)
1999 → Padova (loan) 28 (5)
1999–2000 → Alzano Virescit (loan) 28 (1)
2000–2002 Chievo 47 (4)
2002–2004 Parma 62 (4)
2004–2006 Palermo 71 (5)
2006–2009 Torino 82 (2)
2009–2010 Cagliari 16 (0)
2011–2012 Livorno 20 (2)
Total 356 (23)
National team
2004–2006 Italy 15 (1)
Teams managed
2016 Delhi Dynamos (assistant)
2017–2018 Juventus Youth Team (manager)
2018– Sassuolo Youth Team (manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Barone started his career making his first team debut on 4 May 1997 for Parma, against Atalanta. He then played for Padova of Serie C1 in 1998, Alzano Virescit of Serie B in 1999.

In summer 2000, he joined Chievo in a co-ownership deal, where he played for 2 seasons. He was loaned back to Parma in 2002–03 season, then bought back permanently in 2003, with Amauri moved to Chievo.

On 16 July 2004, he transferred to Palermo for €5M. He signed a 4-year contract.[4] He was the regular of the team, and the team qualified for 2006–07 UEFA Cup (after the Calciopoli trials).

On 5 August 2006, Simone moved to Serie A newcomer Torino[5][6] after the club signed Mark Bresciano and Fábio Simplício from Parma. He played 3 seasons for the Serie A struggler and left the club after relegated in 2009.

On 6 August 2009, he was signed by Serie A side Cagliari.[7] He was mainly used as a substitute, however, only playing 5 times as a starter, as a right midfielder on each occasion.

International career

Barone debuted for the Italy national football team on 18 February 2004, in a 2–2 friendly tie against Czech Republic in Palermo. Stefano Bettarini and Sergio Volpi also received their first call-up[8] and made their debut under manager Giovanni Trapattoni during the match.[9] He was part of Italy's 2006 FIFA World Cup squad, under Marcello Lippi,[10] appearing two times as a substitute as Italy went on to win the tournament.[11] In Italy's final group match of the competition, a 2–0 win against the Czech Republic on 22 June, Barone helped to win back possession in midfield before laying the ball off to Simone Perrotta, who subsequently set up Filippo Inzaghi with a one on one opportunity with a throughball after the striker had managed to beat the offiside trap; Inzaghi went on to score after rounding Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech, while Barone also followed Inzaghi's run to provide him with an additional attacking option across goal.[12] This play is such iconic in Italian culture that, as Inzaghi completely ignored Barone’s 50-metre run, youngsters use the expression “utile come la corsa di Barone” (Italian for “as useful as Barone’s run”) to indicate something superfluous or unnecessary. He later also appeared in Italy's 3–0 win over Ukraine in the quarter-finals of the tournament.[13] In total, Barone made 16 appearances for Italy between 2004 and 2006,[14] scoring his only international goal on 9 February 2005, in a 2–0 friendly home win over Russia, in Cagliari, at the stadio Sant'Elia.[15]

Style of play

A versatile, consistent, energetic, and hard-working player, Barone was primarily deployed as a central or right sided midfielder, although he was capable of playing in any midfield position, and was also deployed as a defensive midfielder, due to his stamina, tactical intelligence, positional sense, and decision-making, as well as his ability to break down opposition plays and subsequently start attacking moves with his passing.[16][17][18][19][20]

Managerial career

In late June 2016, Barone was appointed assistant manager for Indian Super League club Delhi Dynamos, under his former international teammate Gianluca Zambrotta.[21]

In the 2017–18 season he was appointed manager for the Juventus F.C. academy.

He took over the U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Primavera team for the 2018–19 season.

Career statistics

International
Italy senior team[22]
YearAppsGoals
200420
200591
200640
Total151

International goal
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
19 February 2005Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari, Italy Russia2–02–0Friendly

Honours

International

Italy[23]

Orders
CONI: Golden Collar of Sports Merit: Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo: (2006)[24]
4th Class / Officer: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: (2006)[25]

References
  1. "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Italy" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
  2. FIFA.com
  3. AscotSportal.com Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "SIMONE BARONE E' DEL PALERMO". US Città di Palermo (in Italian). ilpalermocalcio.it. 16 July 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  5. Channel4.com Archived 7 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Barone ceduto al Torino". US Città di Palermo (in Italian). ilpalermocalcio.it. 5 August 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  7. "Saluto i miei nuovi tifosi". Cagliari Calcio (in Italian). 6 August 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  8. "Barone braced for Italy chance". UEFA.com. 15 February 2004. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  9. "Italia, solo un pareggio ma un buon primo tempo" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 18 February 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  10. "Lippi ha fiducia, nonostante tutto Convocato Buffon: "E' sereno"" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 15 May 2006. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  11. Maurizio Crosetti (9 July 2006). "L' Italia campione del mondo 2006 Repubblica lo racconto così". repubblica.it (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  12. Nicola Apicella (22 June 2006). "Rep. Ceca-Italia 0-2". repubblica.it (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  13. De Stefano, Gaetano (30 June 2006). "E adesso la Germania". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  14. "Barone, Simone" (in Italian). FIGC. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  15. "Italia-Russia: 2-0". italia1910.com (in Italian). 9 February 2005. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  16. "2006: Italia - Capitolo IX: Le Pagelle dei Campioni del Mondo" (in Italian). Storie di Calcio. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  17. Giovanni Nole (5 September 2012). "Non dimenticatevi di noi: le storie di Gianluca Zambrotta e Simone Barone!" (in Italian). Sport Cafe 24.com. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  18. "Cuore e polmoni" (in Italian). Eurosport.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  19. Alessandro Bernini (13 December 2013). "2006: Barone e il trionfo mondiale" (in Italian). Il Tirreno. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  20. Sebastiano Vernazza (15 April 2019). "Chievo, ciao Serie A. La nostra Top Undici gialloblù" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  21. "Zambrotta trova una panchina in India: vola a Delhi, il vice è Barone" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  22. "Simone Barone". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  23. "S. Barone". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  24. "Coni: Consegna dei Collari d'Oro e dei Diplomi d'Onore. Premia il Presidente del Consiglio Romano Prodi. Diretta Tv su Rai 2". Coni.it (in Italian). Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano. 16 October 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  25. "Barone Sig. Simone: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". quirinale.it (in Italian). 12 December 2006. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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