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Nicola Pozzi

Personal information
Date of birth	(1986-06-30) 30 June 1986 (age 25)
Place of birth	Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sampdoria
Number	9
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2004	Cesena	19	(4)
2004–2005	Milan	0	(0)
2004	→ Napoli (loan)	3	(1)
2005	→ Pescara (loan)	4	(0)
2005–2010	Empoli	103	(26)
2009–2010	→ Sampdoria (loan)	18	(2)
2010–	Sampdoria	30	(15)
National team
2006–2009	Italy U-21	8	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 September 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Nicola Pozzi (born 30 June 1986) is an Italian footballer who currently plays in the Serie B league for Sampdoria. He was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna.

Club career[link]

Milan[link]

Signed by AC Milan from then-Serie C1 side Cesena on January 2004, he was successively loaned to Napoli and Pescara, before being sent on loan to Empoli F.C. for two consecutive seasons (2005–06 and 2006–07).

Empoli[link]

In 2007–08 season, his status was changed to co-owned by both sides, for €750,000^[1] (that season Empoli also signed Luca Antonini (€1M), Lino Marzoratti (€0.75M) and Ignazio Abate (€0.9M) in co-ownership deals), and in 16 June 2008 Empoli got full ownership for €3.25 million (Pozzi) and €1.5 million (Marzoratti )^[2] in exchange of Antonini (€2.9 million) and Abate (€2million) who return to AC Milan.

On December 9, 2007, he scored all four goals in Empoli's 4–1 victory over Cagliari. However, he suffered a season-ending knee injury after netting a brace in a 3–1 defeat of Napoli on February 17, and will be sidelined for six months, effectively ruling him out of the Azzurrini squad for the 2008 Olympics.

Pozzi also represented Italy at the Under-21 level.

Sampdoria[link]

On Monday 31 August 2009 Sampdoria announced via their website the loan signing of Pozzi with the option to make the signing permanent.^[3] In June 2010, Sampdoria decided to sign him outright,^[4] for €5.2 million in 5-year contract.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• FIGC (Italian)
• Season over for Pozzi – Football Italia, 2/18/08
• Pozzi to Samp (Italian)
• Pozzi to Samp agreement details (Italian)

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Po Po (born 1957) is a Burmese installation and performance artist. His work has been exhibited in Japan, South Korea and Berlin.^[1]

Life[link]

Po Po was born in 1957 in Pathein, Myanmar. His formal name is Hla Oo.^[2] He is self-taught. Since 1987 Po Po has held many solo exhibitions, and his work has been shown at the Yokohama Triennial in Yokohama, Japan, the Gwangju Biennial in Gwangju, South Korea, Fukuoka Triennale in Fukuoka, Japan and in the House of World Cultures, Berlin.^[1] A May 2004 report described Po Po as one of the younger Myanmar artists who were creating impressive works in isolation and in conditions of penury.^[3] However, Po Po is one of the few "contemporary" Myanma artists who have been able to travel, for example participating in the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum's event in 1999.^[4] He was also able to take part in Saigon Open City in Vietnam.^[2] In June 2010 he visited Singapore to give a talk at the Osage Art Foundation.^[5]

Work[link]

Po Po, and another self-taught artist Aung Myint, are pioneers in the performance art field in Myanmar, with Po Po staging a 30-minute seminal performance in 1997.^[6] Po Po is widely regarded as Myanmar's first practitioner of this art form.^[7] Many of his works are playful, impulsive, ironic and sociable. Other works are provocative and shocking.^[1] His installation work "rice terrace" at the Osage Gallery in Singapore in May/June 2010 involved 1000 Styrofoam boxes, each with about 100 grains of growing rice, with the boxes arranged on mud terraces in the gallery.^[8] He describes his computer-installation Scream of the Dead, which features an open mass grave, as a metaphor for life in Myanmar and the world today.^[1] His work is thoughtful and full of depth. In his photography he employs elements of cubism, which he considers to be the "highest state of intellectual approach" to painting.^[9] A critic has said: "At best, his works reflect the lightness of being, joyfully, bearably so".^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Po Po". Magic Art Gallery. http://www.magicartartgallery.com/gallery/default.asp?v=list&id1=2&id2=13&id3=P&p=1. Retrieved 2010-11-16. 

Maximiliano Gastón López (born 3 April 1984) is an Argentine professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Serie A club Milan, on loan from Catania.

López also holds both an Argentine passport and an Italian passport.^[1][2]

Club career[link]

River Plate[link]

López started his career in 1997 with River Plate. On 19 August 2001, at the mere age of 17, he made his senior debut against Talleres de Córdoba. That same season, the player was officially promoted to the senior squad, following 5 years with the youth program. With River Plate, he was a standout striker and the club won the Torneo Clausura in 2002, 2003, and 2004. López remained with the club until his transfer to Spanish giants FC Barcelona in January 2005. With River Plate, Lopez made over 60 appearances, scoring nearly 20 goals.

FC Barcelona[link]

In January 2005, FC Barcelona signed the Argentine striker for €6.2 million following an injury to striker Henrik Larsson. López failed to break into the club's first team. In his first season with the Catalan giants, López made just 13 league appearances. He transferred to RCD Mallorca on loan for the 2006–07 season, where he failed to live up to the expectations, scoring only three goals in 25 matches, and hence returned to Barcelona in the summer of 2007, only to be sold subsequently to FC Moscow.

FC Moscow[link]

On 16 August 2007, López signed with FC Moscow after a transfer fee of €2 million was agreed with Barcelona.^[3] With the club, López made 22 league appearances scoring 9 goals, but on February 13, 2009, Brazilian club, Grêmio signed López on a 1-year loan from FC Moscow.^[4] During his season long loan, the striker managed 11 goals in 25 league starts, and was scouted as a transfer target by several European clubs including Calcio Catania, Chievo Verona, Genoa CFC, Ajax, and Vfl Wolfsburg

Loan to Grêmio[link]

In February 2009 López went out on loan for one year to Gremio and made his debut the following month in a game against Santa Cruz. His first goal for the club came against Esporte Clube São José on March 18, 2009. On June 24, 2009, López was accused of racism by Cruzeirio player Elicarlos in the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores. Lopez denied the charge and, so far, nothing has been proven. Lopez scored four goals in the Copa Libertadores 2009, and the winner in the centenary Gre-Nal derby match.

Catania and Milan[link]

On 20 January 2010 López signed a four-year contract with Catania, in the Italian Serie A.^[1] He scored his first league goal on 7 February 2010 in a 1–0 away win against Lazio.^[5] López went on to score 12 goals in 17 appearances as Catania managed a 12th place finish in the league. During the 2010–11 season, López only scored 8 goals, but finished as Catania's leading scorer.^[6] On 27 January 2012, López finally reached a deal with Milan and officially signed by Milan on a loan deal and definitive option to buy him in summer.^[7] He scored his first goal as a Milan player on 11 February 2012 in an away game against Udinese, equalizing for Milan before going on to assist Stephan El Shaarawy to score the game-winning goal. Maxi López has been sent back to Catania after finishing his loan spell with Ac Milan . After a string of unconvincing performances on the pitch, the Argentine will no longer be part of the Milan club.

International career[link]

Maxi López represented his birth nation of Argentina at Under-15, Under-17 and Under-20 levels, also taking part to the 2003 South American Youth Championship. He is currently eligible for both Argentina and Italy, as he holds both citizenships and has never represented any national team at senior level. In July 2010 he explicitly stated he might accept a call-up from the Azzurri.^[8]

Maxilopezian "Church"[link]

Lopez's surprising change of luck from being a criticised forward in River Plate to being signed by world's giants FC Barcelona made him an Internet meme in his native Argentina. Satirical blogs were created lobbying for his inclusion in the Argentinian squad for the 2006 World Cup. After the Argentinian elimination of the cup (without Lopez getting any caps at all) the nature of the meme changed to a series of reasons explaining his lack of time play on Barcelona with hyperbolic claims about Lopez's virility, skilfulness and a supposed affair with the wife of Barcelona's coach Frank Rijkaard which closely resembled Chuck Norris Facts. In interviews, Lopez has stated that he is ok with this unexpected following and the Church of the "White Drogba". (As he is known after missing a crucial Penalty kick for River against Arch-enemies Boca Juniors on the same week Didier Drogba missed one against Egypt in the final of 2006 African Cup of Nations) ^[9][10]

Personal life[link]

Maxi López is currently married to an Argentine model, Wanda Nara. The couple have three children, Valentino Gastón (born January 25, 2009), Constantino (born December 19, 2010) and Benedicto (born February 20, 2012)

Club statistics[link]

As of 12 December 2011.

Honours[link]

River Plate[link]

• Torneo Clausura: (3) 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04

Barcelona[link]

• La Liga: (2) 2004–05, 2005–06
• Supercopa de España: (1) 2005
• UEFA Champions League: (1) 2005–06,

References[link]

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External links[link]

• European Champions Cup/UEFA Champions League Winning Squads
• Maxi López – FIFA competition record
• Profile and statistics at FootballDatabase
• Guardian statistics
• team profile and statistics at FK Moscow website
• (Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics