Luca Garritano

Luca Garritano

Garritano in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	(1994-02-11) 11 February 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Cosenza, Italy
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder , left winger
Team information
Current team	Frosinone
Number	16
Youth career
2008–2011	Inter
2011–2012	Cesena
2011–2012	→ Inter (loan)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2017	Cesena	98	(8)
2012–2013	→ Inter (loan)	3	(0)
2015	→ Modena (loan)	21	(3)
2017–2021	Chievo	80	(11)
2018	→ Carpi (loan)	19	(0)
2018–2019	→ Cosenza (loan)	26	(3)
2021–	Frosinone	78	(5)
International career‡
2009–2010	Italy U16 [1] [2]	2	(2)
2011–2012	Italy U18 [3]	7	(3)
2012–2013	Italy U19 [3] [4]	7	(1)
2013–2015	Italy U20 [3]	9	(4)
2015–2017	Italy U21 [3] [5]	12	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 June 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 June 2017

Luca Garritano (born 11 February 1994) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or left winger for Serie B club Frosinone.

Club career

Inter

Born in Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy, Garritano played for Inter Milan from their giovanissimi nazionali under-15 team in 2008–09 season to their allievi nazionali U17 team in 2010–11 season.

Cesena

On 30 June–1 July 2011 Garritano (50% registration rights for €700,000 ^{[6] [7]} ) along with Luca Caldirola (50% registration rights for €2.5M ^{[8] [9]} ) were left for Cesena in co-ownership deals as part of €10.5 million deal to sign Yuto Nagatomo from Cesena. ^[10] Garritano signed a 3-year contract, ^[10] the maximum length an under-18 player could sign. On 1 July 2011 Garritano returned to Inter on a temporary deal, for the U18 team. Garritano scored 10 league goals in the group stage. Garritano also played for Inter U19 team 8 times. After winning the league title for U18 team, Garritano was included in the U19 squad for the playoffs round of Campionato Nazionale Primavera. He played twice, in semi-finals replacing suspended Marko Livaja and again in the final as a substitute for Daniel Bessa. In June 2012 the co-ownership deal between Inter and Cesena was renewed and Garritano remained in Inter U19 team for 2012–13 season.

Garritano made his first team debut on 4 October 2012 in 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Garritano made his debut in Serie A on 21 April in San Siro verse Parma.

In June 2013 the co-ownership of Garritano was renewed again. In July 2013 Garritano joined the pre-season camp of Cesena. ^[11] Circa his graduation from the youth system his also signed a new professional contract with Cesena.

Garritano made 25 appearances for Cesena in 2013–14 Serie B; he also played 3 times in for the winner of the promotion playoffs. In June 2014 the co-ownership was renewed again. However, he only played 6 times in 2014–15 Serie A; on 9 January 2015 he was signed by Serie B club Modena in a temporary deal. ^[12]

In June 2015 Cesena acquired the remaining 50% registration rights of Garritano from Inter, for another €50,000 fee. ^[13] Inter, their directors Piero Ausilio  [ it ] and Rinaldo Ghelfi were also fined by the Italian Football Federation in July 2016, for the price tags of Caldirola, Garritano and Nagatomo, for a total fine of €90,000. It was accused by the prosecutor that the price tags were inflated, in order to boost the club's financial positions of 2010–11 and 2011–12 financial year. ^[14]

Chievo

On 29 June 2017, one day before the end of Cesena and Chievo's financial year, Garritano, Rodríguez, Rigione and Daniele Grieco of Cesena were sold to Chievo for Kupisz, Filippo Zambelli, Pietro Borgogna, Lorenzo Placidi and Carloalberto Tosi to Cesena. Additionally, Lamin Jallow moved to Cesena on a temporary deal, with an option to purchase at the end of 2017–18 season. ^{[15] [16] [17]} Chievo bought the 4 players for a total of €15 million fee. ^{[18] [19]} However, it was counter-weighed by Cesena bought the 5 players for a total of €14 million transfer fee. ^{[18] [20]} The profit did benefited Cesena in 2016–17 financial year, ^[18] but also created a heavy burden in terms of amortization on the acquisition costs for 2017–18 financial year and beyond. ^[18]

In July 2018 Garritano returned to Chievo after the expiry of the loan. In the same month Cesena was declared bankrupted as well as Chievo was accused of false accounting on swap deals such as Garritano's deal. ^{[21] [22] [23]}

On 17 August 2018, Garritano joined to Serie B side Cosenza on loan until 30 June 2019. ^[24]

Frosinone

On 8 July 2021, he signed a three-year contract with Frosinone. ^[25]

Career statistics

As of 1 March 2023 ^[26]

Club statistics

Club	Season	League			Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Cesena	2012–13	Serie B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2013–14		25	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	27	3
	2014–15	Serie A	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
	2015–16	Serie B	29	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	30	3
	2016–17		38	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	43	4
	Total		98	8	8	2	0	0	0	0	106	10
Inter Milan (loan)	2012–13	Serie A	3	0	0	0	0	0	2 [a]	0	5	0
Modena (loan)	2014–15	Serie B	21	3	0	0	0	0	2 [b]	2	23	5
Chievo	2017–18	Serie A	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	13	0
	2018–19		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2019–20	Serie B	31	3	1	0	0	0	3 [c]	1	35	4
	2020–21		38	8	1	0	0	0	1 [d]	1	40	9
	Total		80	11	4	0	0	0	4	2	88	13
Carpi (loan)	2017–18	Serie B	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	0
Cosenza (loan)	2018–19	Serie B	26	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	3
Frosinone	2021–22	Serie B	32	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	2
	2022–23		26	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	27	2
	Total		58	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	59	4
Career totals			305	29	13	2	0	0	8	4	326	35

1. Appearances in the UEFA Europa League
2. Appearances in the 2014–15 Relegation play-offs
3. Appearances in the 2019–20 Promotion play-offs
4. Appearance in the 2020–21 Promotion play-offs

International career

Garritano was a member of the Italy U19 team at the 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification and elite qualification, in which he made 4 appearances. ^[27] He also played 3 friendlies for the U19 team, including the first match of the season, against Croatia U19. ^{[4] [28]}

On 8 October 2015, he made his debut with the Italy U21 squad, in a 3–0 win against Slovenia.

In June 2017, he was included in the Italy under-21 squad for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship by manager Luigi Di Biagio. ^[29] He only played once, coming on as a substitute for former Inter teammate Marco Benassi in Italy's 3–1 defeat to Spain in the semi-finals of the competition on 27 June. ^{[5] [30] [31]}

Honours

Inter U19

• Campionato Nazionale Primavera: 2012

Inter U18

• Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti (wildcard group): 2012

References

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2. "TORNEO DELLE NAZIONI: BATTUTA LA CROAZIA, LA FINALE È ITALIA-MESSICO" (in Italian). FIGC. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
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15. "Conclusa operazione con l'A.C. Chievo Verona" (Press release) (in Italian). A.C. Cesena. 29 June 2017. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
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17. "Calcio Mercato" (in Italian). Lega Serie B. 3 July 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
18. "I debiti sono saliti a 52 milioni: il Cesena ne chiede la ristrutturazione". Corriere Romagna (in Italian). Cesena: Cooperativa Editoriale Giornali Associati. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
19. "Nota integrativa". A.C. Cesena S.p.A. bilancio di esercizio al 2017-06-30. Registro delle Imprese (statutory filing) (in Italian). Forlì: Italian C.C.I.A.A. November 2017.
20. "Nota integrativa". A.C. Chievo-Verona S.r.l. bilancio di esercizio al 2017-06-30. Registro delle Imprese (statutory filing) (in Italian). Verona: Italian C.C.I.A.A. November 2017. pp. 25, 28.
21. "TFN: Chievo Deferimento improcedibile, -15 al Cesena nella stagione 2018/2019" (Press release) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 25 July 2018. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
22. "Plusvalenze: deferiti il Chievo, il presidente Luca Campedelli e altri dirigenti" (Press release) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 3 August 2018. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
23. "Clamoroso, grazie alle plusvalenze fittizie Chievo e Cesena si sono iscritte al campionato: lo dice anche la Figc!". calciomercato.com (in Italian). 25 June 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
24. "UFFICIALE: Garritano è un nuovo giocatore del Cosenza" . Retrieved 17 August 2018.
25. "LUCA GARRITANO È GIALLAZZURRO" (in Italian). Frosinone. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
26. Luca Garritano at Soccerway
27. UEFA.com
28. Match report (in Croatian)
29. "U21: Italy squad for Euros named". Football Italia. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
30. "Spain U21 3-1 Italy U21". BBC Sport. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
31. James Horncastle (28 June 2017). "Italy fall to familiar foe Spain at U21 Euros but there is hope for the future". ESPN FC. Retrieved 24 October 2017.

External links

• Lega Serie A profile ^{[ dead link ]}(in Italian)
• Lega Serie B profile ^{[ permanent dead link ]}(in Italian)^{[ dead link ]}
• AIC profile (data by football.it) (in Italian)
• Luca Garritano at Soccerway