Alessandro Del Grosso (born 27 August 1972) is an Italian former

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who played as a defender.

Football career

Early years

Del Grosso started his career at teams of

Serie C2 Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging t ...

. He followed

Avezzano Avezzano ( ; ) is a city and comune in the Abruzzo region, province of L'Aquila, Italy. It is the second most populous municipality in the province and the sixth in the region. It is the main commercial, industrial and agricultural centre of the ...

promoted to

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in summer 1996.

Salernitana & Bari

After played 10 matches in Serie C1 1996–97 season, he joined

Salernitana Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919 is an Italian professional football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recently in 2011. The current ...

of Serie B in November 1996 and followed the team promoted to Serie A in summer 1998. After Salernitana relegated in summer 1999, he joined A.S. Bari of Serie A on free transfer. After Bari relegated, he rejoined Salernitana in summer 2001, but also at Serie B. He played for Salernitana for a season.

Catania & Napoli

In summer 2002, he joined

Calcio Catania Catania Football Club, commonly known as Catania, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in Serie C. Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the clu ...

, at that time new promoted to Serie B. He survived in relegation in summer 2003, because that season only one team relegated. He then joined

S.S.C. Napoli Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (), commonly known as SSC Napoli or simply Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania that currently competes in the Serie A, the highest league of Italian football. Napoli are am ...

in on 31 January 2004. But this time Napoli relegated due to financial reason, despite finished 13th in Serie B.

Lega Pro clubs

He then played for

Pisa Pisa ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning Tow ...

(Serie C1A),

Teramo Teramo (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast. Th ...

(Serie C1B),

Chieti Chieti (, ; , , ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Southern Italy, east of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti, in the Abruzzo, Abruzzo region. In Italian, the adjectival form is ''teatino'' and inhabitants of Chieti ar ...

(Serie C1B). He then shortly back to Serie B for

Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabr ...

on 5 January 2006, but fail to avoid relegation. He then joined Martina (Serie C1B) and then his first club

Celano Celano is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of L'Aquila, central Italy, east of Rome by rail. Geography Celano rises on the top of a hill in the territory of Marsica, below the mountain range of Sirente. It faces the valley of Fucino, once ...

(Serie C2) in January 2007. He survived in relegation playoffs against Pro Vasto.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Del Grosso, Alessandro 1972 births Living people People from Ardea, Lazio Italian men's footballers Serie A players Serie B players US Salernitana 1919 players SSC Bari players Catania FC players SSC Napoli players Pisa SC players SSD Città di Teramo players SSD Chieti FC 1922 players US Catanzaro 1929 players Men's association football defenders SSD Martina Calcio 1947 players Avezzano Calcio players Renato Curi Angolana players Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital