Adrian Ucchino (born 4 October 1991) is an Australian

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who currently plays as a

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for

APIA Leichhardt Tigers APIA Leichhardt Football Club, also known simply as APIA (Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. The club was forme ...

in the NSW NPL Men's 1.

Club career

Ucchino was introduced to soccer by his childhood friend, taught him how to dribble, shoot and how to handle the ball. Ucchino was a fast learner and earned a reputation for his skill and ball handling. On 27 October 2010, Ucchino made his debut for

Frosinone Frosinone (; local dialect: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Lazio, administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is about southeast of Rome, close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of th ...

against Reggina in the

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. In January 2011, Ucchino joined Sangiovannese on loan for the rest of the season. In May 2012 Ucchino made his debut for

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side

Bonnyrigg White Eagles Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC is an Australian semi-professional association football, soccer club based in Bonnyrigg, New South Wales, Bonnyrigg, Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, currently playing in the NSW League One. The club was founded in 1968 ...

as a half-time substitute. In 2015 Ucchino moved to rival NSW NPL Men's 1 rivals

APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC APIA Leichhardt Football Club, also known simply as APIA (Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. The club was formed in 1954 as APIA Leichhardt ...

. Ucchino scored the winning goal in the 2019 NPL NSW Grand Final for Apia, to defeat Sydney United.

References

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