Alessandro Vecchi (born 7 March 1991) is an Italian footballer who played professionally for SPAL and Mantova. A

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, he is known for his eye for goal.

Club career

Born in

Guastalla Guastalla ( Guastallese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Geography Guastalla is situated in the Po Valley, and lies on the banks of the Po River. Guastalla is located at around from the citi ...

, in Emilia region, Vecchi started his career at Emilian club

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. In 2010, he left for

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club SPAL in temporary deal. However, he only able to play in the reserve league. In July 2011 Vecchi and Francesco Pambianchi were moved to SPAL in co-ownership deal, for €200,000 and €250,000 respectively, as a direct swap with Davide Colomba (price tag €450,000Parma F.C. SpA ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2012
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/ref>), the son of Parma's head coach at that time, Franco Colomba. SPAL was expelled from the professional league in July 2012, thus Pambianchi and Vecchi returned to Parma on a free transfer. In August 2012 Vecchi joined

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club

Mantova F.C. Mantova 1911, commonly referred to as Mantova, is an Italian professional football club based in Mantua (Italian: ''Mantova''), Lombardy. Mantova had played consecutively in the Italian Serie B from the 2005–06 season to 2009–10 as Associa ...

He remained in Mantua for 2013–14 season. The club qualified to the 2014–15 Serie C as the 8th placed team in Group A of the 2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

International career

Vecchi played for the Italy U-17 team in the team's 2008 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship elite qualification campaign. He played once, in the last match, in which he replaced Luca Caldirola as the team's centre-back. Vecchi played 3 times for the Italy U-19 team: against

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and the

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.FIGC

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vecchi, Alessandro Italian men's footballers Parma Calcio 1913 players SPAL players Mantova 1911 players Serie C players Men's association football defenders Italy men's youth international footballers People from Guastalla 1991 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Reggio Emilia 21st-century Italian sportsmen