Gennaro Ruggiero
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 4 February 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Naples, Italy | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | San Giorgio | ||
Youth career | |||
–2014 | Mariano Keller | ||
2014–2018 | Palermo | ||
2017–2018 | → Torino (loan) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2019 | Palermo | 2 | (0) |
2019–2020 | Livorno | 10 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Nola | 11 | (0) |
2021– | San Giorgio | 9 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 November 2021 |
Gennaro Ruggiero (born 4 February 2000) is an Italian footballer,[1] currently contracted with Serie D amateurs San Giorgio.[2]
Career[]
A physical central midfielder, and a product of Naples-based renowned youth team Mariano Keller, he was spotted by Palermo scouts and then signed in 2014.[3]
He made his Serie A debut at the age of 17 on 14 May 2017, playing the entirety of a home league game against Genoa, and becoming the third footballer born from the year 2000 to play in the Italian top flight (after Moise Kean and Pietro Pellegri).[4]
He was successively loaned out to Torino for the 2017–18 season, but failed to make any first team appearance during the season and appeared only for the Granata's U-19 team before returning to Palermo, again as part of the Under-19 team.[5]
After a lone season with Serie B club Livorno, he was signed by Serie D club Nola as a free transfer on November 2020.[6] On 7 August 2021, he moved to San Giorgio, another Serie D club from his native region of Campania.[7]
References[]
- ^ Gennaro Ruggiero at Soccerway. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ "RUGGIERO GENNARO" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Corriere dello Sport: "Gennaro Ruggiero, il nuovo Gattuso. Nato nel 2000 come lo juventino Kean, il centrocampista ricorda «Ringhio»"" (in Italian). 18 March 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ "Un 2000 nella storia: il Palermo butta nella mischia Ruggiero a 17 anni" (in Italian). Palermo Today. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ "FOTO: Ruggiero aggregato alla Primavera" (in Italian). I Love Palermo Calcio. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Nola: colpo a centrocampo, preso l'ex rosanero Ruggiero" (in Italian). I Love Palermo Calcio. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "FC SAN GIORGIO, arriva il "MASTINO" per il centrocampo: ingaggiato Gennaro Ruggiero" (in Italian). Tuttocampo. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- 2000 births
- Footballers from Naples
- Living people
- Palermo F.C. players
- A.S. Livorno Calcio players
- Italian footballers
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Association football midfielders