Gennaro Ruggiero

Gennaro Ruggiero (born 4 February 2000) is an Italian footballer,[1] currently unattached.[2]

Gennaro Ruggiero
Personal information
Date of birth (2000-02-04) 4 February 2000
Place of birth Naples, Italy
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 San Giorgio
Youth career
0000–2014 Mariano Keller
2014–2018 Palermo
2017–2018 → Torino (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Palermo 2 (0)
2019–2020 Livorno 10 (0)
2020–2021 Nola 11 (0)
2021–2022 San Giorgio 35 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 November 2021

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.

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.
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