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Carrizo touches down in Rome Sunday 6 January, 2008
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Juan Pablo Carrizo has arrived in Italy with new paperwork that could finally see him become Lazio’s goalkeeper.
The Argentine cannot sign for the club until he has an EU passport and had seen the summer switch collapse after months of drawn out red tape.
He has now flown back to Rome and will visit Pinerolo on Monday to hand over new paperwork that should confirm his Italian family members left the town for Argentina in the late 1800s.
If the application is accepted, Carrizo can obtain an Italian passport and deposit his contract with Lazio during the January transfer window.
This would resolve a crisis that the club has been struggling with since the summer, when Angelo Peruzzi retired and 21-year-old Nestor Muslera failed to impress.
Although Marco Ballotta (pictured) has kept the goalkeepers’ gloves for most of the season, the 43-year-old has been prone to howlers
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:O man i didnt notice lazio had a "retired" gk for the period of injury to their main gk