Ross Aloisi was born on 17 April 1973 and is a former Australian soccer player and current assistant coach of Shanghai Port.
18 Facts About Ross Aloisi
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Ross Aloisi was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the older brother of former Socceroo John Ross Aloisi.
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Ross Aloisi scored 4 goals in 13 matches as the team finished 13th of the 14 teams.
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Ross Aloisi made 31 appearances for 4 goals as West Adelaide missed the finals by a single point, Ross Aloisi played another 17 matches for West Adelaide, but again they missed the finals series, and he decided again to attempt to build a career overseas.
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Ross Aloisi only played 1 match for FC Lorient over two seasons before moving on to Grazer AK in Austria's Bundesliga.
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The collapse of the NSL saw Ross Aloisi move to Malaysia to play for Selangor FC helping them to finish second in the newly formed Malaysian Premier League.
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Ross Aloisi shared the LifeFM Adelaide Player of the Year award with Angelo Costanzo,.
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Ross Aloisi then left the club altogether and has promised in magazine interviews to one day "tell all".
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John noted that Ross Aloisi' departure lessened his desire to play for United, as his previously stated desire to play for United was based upon the incentive of finishing his career playing alongside his brother.
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Ross Aloisi scored twice in his only season with the Phoenix, before retiring at the end of the season.
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Ross Aloisi is a columnist for Soccer International magazine and co-owns a ceramics business with his brother.
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In early 1996, Ross Aloisi participated in the Olyroos' qualifying campaign for the 1996 Summer Olympics, scoring 5 goals in 5 games as Australia finished on top of the Oceania group.
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Ross Aloisi played in all three of Australia's Olympic matches, but the team were knocked out in the group stages after losses to France and Spain.
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Ross Aloisi was appointed as coach of West Adelaide in 2010, two years after their revival.
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In July 2015, Ross Aloisi joined A-League club Brisbane Roar as an assistant coach under his brother John.
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In October 2020, Ross Aloisi returned to Adelaide United, this time as the assistant coach for the A-League team.
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Ross Aloisi departed the club in March 2022 to join an Asian club.
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In May 2023, Ross Aloisi returned to a position of head coach, signing as the head coach of Brisbane Roar's team in the A-League Men, where he had previously spent four years as an assistant coach under his brother John.