Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 31 March 2001 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Reggio Calabria, Italy | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) [1] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Sassuolo | |||||||||||||
Number | 1 | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
Carmine Coppola | ||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | F24 Messina | |||||||||||||
2016–2019 | Genoa | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
2019– | Sassuolo | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
2020–2021 | → Virtus Entella (loan) | 18 | (0) | |||||||||||
2021–2022 | → Alessandria (loan) | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
2022 | → Sint-Truiden (loan) | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
2023–2024 | → Trento (loan) | 34 | (0) | |||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2017 | Italy U16 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
2017–2018 | Italy U17 | 18 | (0) | |||||||||||
2018 | Italy U18 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
2018–2020 | Italy U19 | 9 | (0) | |||||||||||
2021 | Italy U21 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:41, 16 November 2021 (UTC) |
Alessandro Russo (born 31 March 2001) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie B club Sassuolo.
Russo is a youth product of Carmine Coppola, F24 Messina, and Genoa. [2] On 12 September 2019, Russo signed with Sassuolo. [3] Russo made his professional debut with Sassuolo in a 2-1 Coppa Italia loss to Perugia on 4 December 2019. [4]
On 29 August 2020, he went to Virtus Entella on loan. [5]
On 15 July 2021, he joined Alessandria on loan. [6] On 24 January 2022, he moved on a new loan to Sint-Truiden in Belgium. [7]
Russo spent the 2022–23 season back with Sassuolo as a back-up to Andrea Consigli. Russo made his Serie A debut in the last league game of the season on 2 June 2023 against Fiorentina. [8]
On 12 July 2023, Russo moved to Serie C club Trento on a season-long loan. [9]
On 12 October 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19. [10] He tested negative 18 days later. [11]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Sassuolo | 2018–19 | Serie A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
2022–23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
Virtus Entella (loan) | 2020–21 | Serie B | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | ||
Alessandria (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
Sint-Truiden (loan) | 2021–22 | Belgian First Division A | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
Trento (loan) | 2023–24 | Serie C | 34 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 35 | 0 | ||
Career total | 57 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 0 |
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