Graziano Pellè

I always think of Graziano Pellè as one of those strikers whose game suited his frame perfectly. At 1m94, he was a genuine target man, and his story is a slow-burn classic to me: starting out at his home club Lecce, shuffled through lower-division loans, then finally finding himself in the Netherlands at AZ, where he won an Eredivisie title. What I respect most is the patience. Plenty of players would have drifted away after years on loan without a settled home. He kept grinding until the goals came, and that arc from local hopeful to title winner is the part of his career I find genuinely satisfying.

Name (English)

Graziano Pellè

Name (Japanese)

グラツィアーノ・ペッレ

Reading

ぐらつぃあーの・ぺっれ

Born

July 15, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

San Cesario di Lecce, province of Lecce, Italy

Height

194 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttps://grazianopelleblog.altervista.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graziano%20Pell%C3%A8
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%83%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218680

Tags

• province of Lecce
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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