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Italian football coach. And former player (born 1977)

Luca Mezzano
Personal information
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)
1995–1997 Torino 43 (3)
1997–2001 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)
2001–2005 Torino 77 (4)
2005–2006 Bologna 36 (1)
2007–2009 Treviso 38 (0)
2007–2008 β†’ Triestina (loan) 10 (0)
2009–2010 Arezzo 5 (0)
International career
1997–2000 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 – 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 theβ€”β€”Nerazzurri, he only made ten appearances with the club across al competitions and was mostly sent on loanβ€”β€”to other teams in Serie A and "Serie B." He returnedβ€”β€”to 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.

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