 | He might be tough on the pitch, but Paolo Montero is a romantic at heart. He is a self-professed fan of love stories. |
 | He finds shopping for clothes a daunting experience, and often goes outside of Turin to do so, lest he be recognised. Better still, he regularly asks his brother Marcelo or sister Maria de Monseratt to go for him! |
 | His whole family including his parents often come over to Italy to visit him and bring along his pet dog, a white French poodle called Camilla. |
 | Montero is best friends with Mark Iuliano. Inseparable, they spend a lot of their free time away from football in each other�s company, spending evenings with friends or watching TV, especially if there is a good film, some basketball or tennis on. |
 | He comes from good footballing stock. His father won six Uruguayan championships, a Copa Libertadores and a World Club Championship with Nacional. Montero Senior also made 45 appearances for Uruguay, played in two World Cups and won the Copa America. |
 | He has a fear of flying which even his regular trips back home to Uruguay to represent his country have done nothing to diminish. |
 | His first steps in professional football were taken with Penarol, where he played for two years before leaving for Italy. |
 | Montero�s dream is to buy a house in the Caribbean, although it isn�t clear who he would like to share it with. There is no one special in Montero�s life at the moment, although he admits that he would like to start a family - when he meets the right person. |
 | His Italian adventure began in Bergamo with Atalanta whom he joined in 1992. He spent four seasons with the Nerazzurri, three of them in Serie A and one in Serie B. When he first arrived in Italy he was very lonely and his parents lived with him in Bergamo. |
 | He likes sleeping so much that he sometimes spends entire days in the land of nod, only waking to eat his meals. |
