Roma striker Vincenzo Montella has joined Fulham on loan for the
rest of the season.
The Eternal City club confirmed today that an agreement had been
reached to loan out the 32-year-old hitman to the Premiership
outfit.
``Roma announce that they have perfected an agreement with Fulham
Football Club to loan on a temporary and free basis the sporting
rights of the footballer Vincenzo Montella for what remains of the
2006/07 sporting season,'' read the one paragraph statement posted
on the club's website.
Montella's departure means that now only club skipper Francesco
Totti remains of the starting line-up that won the Serie A title
five years ago.
Montella, nicknamed 'il aeroplanino' (the aeroplane) because of his
trademark goal celebration, previously played for Empoli, Genoa and
Sampdoria before moving to Roma in 1999.
He scored a number of crucial goals in the Scudetto-winning season
of 2000/01, many as a substitute, after refusing to hand over his
cherished number nine shirt to newly-signed Argentinian striker
Gabriel Batistuta, who had demanded the jersey.
He was part of the Italy squad for the 2002 World Cup but did not
feature in Marcello Lippi's victorious 23-man party in Germany last
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