Luca Mezzano
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Luca Antonino Mezzano | ||
Date of birth | 1 August 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Turin, Italy | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Torino (youth coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–1997 | Torino | 43 | (3) |
1997–2001 | Internazionale | 4 | (0) |
1999 | → Perugia (loan) | 8 | (0) |
1999 | → Verona (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2000 | → Brescia (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2000 | → Chievo (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2001 | → Reggina (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2001–2005 | Torino | 77 | (4) |
2005–2006 | Bologna | 36 | (1) |
2007–2009 | Treviso | 38 | (0) |
2007–2008 | → Triestina (loan) | 10 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Arezzo | 5 | (0) |
National team | |||
1997–2000 | Italy U-21 | 19 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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 career[]
Born in Turin, Mezzano started his career at hometown club Torino, and joined Internazionale in 1997. Despite being contracted for four seasons with the Nerazzurri, he only made ten appearances with the club across al competitions and was mostly sent on loan to other teams in Serie A and Serie B. He returned 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 career[]
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 links[]
- (in Italian) National Teams stats at FIGC
- http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p5779.shtml
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Association football defenders
- Italian footballers
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Italy
- Italy under-21 international footballers
- Torino F.C. players
- Inter Milan players
- A.C. Perugia Calcio players
- Hellas Verona F.C. players
- Brescia Calcio players
- A.C. ChievoVerona players
- Reggina 1914 players
- Bologna F.C. 1909 players
- A.C.D. Treviso players
- U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 players
- S.S. Arezzo players
- UEFA Cup winning players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Serie C players
- Italian football defender, 1970s birth stubs