Francesco Di Gennaro

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Francesco Di Gennaro
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-12-05) 5 December 1982 (age 41)
Place of birth Naples, Italy
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Metapontino
Youth career
Napoli
2001–2002 Pescara
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2002 Terracina 4 (0)
2002–2004 Formia
2004–2005 Ferentino 24 (17)
2005–2006 Lanciano 18 (9)
2006–2007 Lucchese 42 (12)
2007–2010 Gallipoli 77 (30)
2010 Verona 13 (2)
2010–2011 Lanciano 29 (6)
2011–2012 Barletta 18 (2)
2012–2013 Matera 31 (10)
2013 Metapontino
Total17(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francesco Di Gennaro (born 5 December 1982) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Metapontino.

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Career

Early life

Born in Naples, Campania, Di Gennaro started his senior career at Serie D (Italian fifth division until 2014) club Terracina [1] and Eccellenza Lazio (Italian sixth division) club Formia. He also played for Abruzzo club Pescara in reserve league in 2001–02 [2] and hometown club SSC Napoli in 2000–01 season. [3]

Professional career

In May 2004 he signed a pre-contract with his first fully professional club SS Lanciano from Abruzzo region but loaned back to Serie D club Ferentino (D for amateur (Italian : dilettanti), in fact semi-pro), also from the region of Lazio. On 30 December 2004 he returned to Lanciano but FIGC void the pre-contract with Lanciano on 31 January 2005, confirming the relationship with Ferentino. [4] He finally played for Lanciano in 2005–06 season. [5] However, in January 2006 he was signed by Lucchese. He scored 17 goals combined in 2005–06 Serie C1, as second-top-scorer behind Emanuele Calaiò. [6] However, in the next season he only scored 3 goals for Lucchese. In July 2007 he left for fellow third division club Gallipoli along with Alessandro Monticciolo. [7] He was suspended once in 2007–08 Serie C1. [8] He won the champion with the club in 2009, as group B winner, which now called Lega Pro Prima Divisione. He also won Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione with club, winning group A winner Cesena. However the club faced financial difficulties and only a few first team players remained, one of them was Di Gennaro. The difficulties solved by a takeover from Udine investor in August 2009. Di Gennaro scored 4 goals in his first Serie B seasons before left the club in mid-season. In January 2010 third division club Verona signed him. [9] [10] However, he only scored twice in 2009–10 Lega Pro Prima Divisione. His contract was terminated in mutual consent in July 2010. [11] Di Gennaro re-joined Lanciano in September 2010, now run as SS Virtus Lanciano 1924 Srl since the bankruptcy of previous entity. He only scored 6 goals in 2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione. In July 2011 he was signed by his fifth third division club Barletta. [12] In September 2012 his contract was terminated again in mutual consent. [13]

Serie D

In September 2012 he joined Serie D team Matera Calcio which newly relocated from Irsina to Matera, which the club succeed FC Matera to represent the city but yet to acquire the sports title won by the old club. He scored 10 goals in 2012–13 Serie D. However, he only played 4 times in 2013–14 Serie D for Matera without a goal. In December 2013 he left for Metapontino, [14] joining namesake Biagio Di Gennaro.

Honours

Gallipoli

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References

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  2. ↑ "C.U. N°32/TB (2001–02)" (PDF). Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti (in Italian). Lega Calcio Serie C. 31 January 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Primavera" (in Italian). SSC Napoli. January 2001. Archived from the original on 7 April 2001.
  4. ↑ "C.U. N°18/D (2005–06)" [Press release N°18/D (2005–06)](PDF). Commissione Tesseramenti (in Italian). FIGC. 31 January 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Binda, Nicola (7 July 2005). "La Spal sceglie Verdelli e si veste da Inter". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Forni, Alessandro (8 May 2006). "Impresa Sangiovannese". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ↑ "C.U. N°28/C (2007–08)" (PDF) (in Italian). Lega Calcio Serie C. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ "Sandrà: allenamento coi gialloblù per Francesco Di Gennaro" (in Italian). Hellas Verona FC. 13 January 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "La scheda di Francesco Di Gennaro, nuovo acquisto gialloblù" (in Italian). Hellas Verona FC. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "Rescissione del contratto per Francesco Di Gennaro" (in Italian). Hellas Verona FC. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ "Di Gennaro è del Barletta" (in Italian). SS Barletta Calcio. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  13. ↑ "Risoluzione contrattuale per Di Gennaro" (in Italian). SS Barletta Calcio. 8 September 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  14. ↑ "Il bomber Di Gennaro dal Matera al Real Metapontino" (in Italian). sassilive.it. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
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