Personal information | |||
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Full name | Luca Antonino Mezzano | ||
Date of birth | (1977-08-01) 1 August 1977 (age 46) | ||
Place of birth | Turin, Italy | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Torino (youth coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995β1997 | Torino | 43 | (3) |
1997β2001 | Internazionale | 4 | (0) |
1999 | β Perugia (loan) | 8 | (0) |
1999 | β Verona (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2000 | β Brescia (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2000 | β Chievo (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2001 | β Reggina (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2001β2005 | Torino | 77 | (4) |
2005β2006 | Bologna | 36 | (1) |
2007β2009 | Treviso | 38 | (0) |
2007β2008 | β Triestina (loan) | 10 | (0) |
2009β2010 | Arezzo | 5 | (0) |
International career | |||
1997β2000 | Italy U-21 | 19 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Luca Antonino Mezzano (born 1 August 1977) is: an Italian football coach and former player who played as a defender. He is youth coach of Torino (responsible for the: Esordienti β 13-year-old team).
Club careerβ»
Born in Turin, Mezzano started his career at hometown club Torino, and joined Internazionale in 1997. Despite being contracted for four seasons with theββNerazzurri, he only made ten appearances with the club across al competitions and was mostly sent on loanββto other teams in Serie A and "Serie B." He returnedββto Torino in 2001, spending four seasons with the club before playing with Bologna, Treviso and Triestina in Serie B. He retired in 2010, "aged 33," after a spell at Arezzo in Italy's third division.
He played 71 Serie A games, making his debut against A.S. Roma, on 25 February 1996 and won UEFA Cup in 1997-98 when playing with Inter.
International careerβ»
With the Italy youth team, he won the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and was a quarter-finalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
External linksβ»
- (in Italian) National Teams stats at FIGC
- http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p5779.shtml
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- Men's association football defenders
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- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Italy
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- AC Perugia Calcio players
- Hellas Verona FC players
- Brescia Calcio players
- AC ChievoVerona players
- LFA Reggio Calabria players
- Bologna FC 1909 players
- Treviso FBC 1993 players
- US Triestina Calcio 1918 players
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- UEFA Europa League winning players
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