Gennaro Ruggiero

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Gennaro Ruggiero
Personal information
Date of birth (2000-02-04) 4 February 2000 (age 25)
Place of birth Naples, Italy
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 AS Melfi
Youth career
–2014 Mariano Keller
2014–2018 Palermo
2017–2018 → Torino (loan)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2019 Palermo 2 (0)
2019–2020 Livorno 10 (0)
2020–2021 Nola 11 (0)
2021–2022 San Giorgio 35 (0)
2023 Real Normanna 14 (1)
2023–2024 Juve Stabia 0 (0)
2024– Real Normanna
2025- AS Melfi 15 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 April 2024

Gennaro Ruggiero (born 4 February 2000) is an Italian footballer who plays for AS Melfi in the fifth-tier Eccellenza. [1] [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 in November 2020. [6] On 7 August 2021, he moved to San Giorgio, another Serie D club from his native region of Campania. [7] He was released by the end of the season, after San Giorgio folded following their relegation to Eccellenza.

After playing from January to June 2023 for Serie D amateurs Real Agro Aversa, Ruggiero was announced on 31 August 2023 as a new signing of Serie C club Juve Stabia until the end of the season. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Gennaro Ruggiero at Soccerway. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "RUGGIERO GENNARO" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "Un 2000 nella storia: il Palermo butta nella mischia Ruggiero a 17 anni" (in Italian). Palermo Today. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "FOTO: Ruggiero aggregato alla Primavera" (in Italian). I Love Palermo Calcio. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Nola: colpo a centrocampo, preso l'ex rosanero Ruggiero" (in Italian). I Love Palermo Calcio. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "FC SAN GIORGIO, arriva il "MASTINO" per il centrocampo: ingaggiato Gennaro Ruggiero" (in Italian). Tuttocampo. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "Juve Stabia, innesto di prospettiva in mezzo: preso Ruggiero" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
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