Alessandro Ferri (February 25, 19212003) was an Italian professional

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player. He started playing as a child with

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and went through every youth team the club had. On January 15, 1939, he came to get the tickets for the

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game against fierce city rivals

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, like he has been doing for several previous years. Club president told him: "Today you don't need tickets, you're playing". He became a regular in the Lazio defence for several years. In his last

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game for Lazio he scored his only league goal for them, on November 30, 1947, in a 1–1 draw against

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The next season, after financial disagreements with the club management, he transferred to the rival

team. Overall, he played 9 seasons (148 games, 2 goals) in the

for Lazio and Roma.

References

1921 births 2003 deaths Italian men's footballers Serie A players SS Lazio players Taranto FC 1927 players AS Roma players AS Reggina 1914 players Men's association football defenders Footballers from Rome 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-defender-1920s-stub