Matteo Ruggeri is an Italian left-back, born on 11 July 2002 (age 24), now with Aston Villa, where he wears squad number 13. His current market value is around £17m, according to Transfermarkt.
His career has been shaped chiefly at Atalanta. He came through there, took in an early loan spell as part of his development, then returned to build a proper first-team record rather than drift around the margins. Across four seasons with Atalanta, he made 85 league appearances, which tells the story plainly enough: that was where he became a senior footballer.
Ruggeri moved on to Aston Villa for the 2026-27 season. He has made nine appearances in all competitions so far, including four in the Premier League and one in the League Cup. It is still an early stage of that spell, but he has already been involved often enough to suggest he is being assessed as part of the first-team picture.
So far, Ruggeri’s career is largely an Atalanta story with a new Premier League chapter now under way at Aston Villa. He is an established young professional rather than a finished article, with his next steps likely to say more than any neat summary would.
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