Eros Bagnara (born 27 April 1985) is a former Italian professional footballer who plays for Italian

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club Edo Mestre RSM.

Biography

Youth career

Born in

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

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, Bagnara started his career at hometown club

. He played for its under-20 team since 2002–03 season. Follow the promotion of the first team to ''

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

'', the U-20 team also changed to play in ''

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''. In January 2004 he was signed by ''

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'' club

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. The team finished as the runner-up of ''Primavera'' League, losing to

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. He was the fourth striker of the team, behind

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(18 goals in the league group stage), Riccardo Meggiorini (9 goals) and

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(8 goals). Bagnara only scored 4 goals in the league group stage (ranked fifth in the team), but with only 6 league appearances, made Bagnara was one of the most effective scorer of the team along with Eliakwu. Bagnara played twice in the playoffs (round of 16 against

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) with 1 goal.

Between Serie C & Serie D

Inter did not excised the option to buy Bagnara in 2004. Bagnara was loaned to a

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team from Santa Lucia di Piave, a nearby town from

. In mid-2005

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club Fermana borrowed Bagnara. That season Treviso promoted to

and no room for Bagnara. In his first professional season, Bagnara scored 3 goals in the first half and 1 goal for

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in the second half.(Serie D is a top level of regional league with wage cap, made it semi-pro) That season Fermana relegated and folded, while Novara finished in the mid-table in the same group (Group A). Bagnara remained in the city of

for

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after the loan was renewed in August. Again Bagnara only able to score once. In mid-2007 Bagnara was sold to

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club

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in a co-ownership deal, for a peppercorn of €500. Team-mate Giovanni Martina also went to the town of

in the same deal. Bagnara scored 7 goals in Italian fourth tier, ahead team-mate Michele Piccolo but behind Marcello Campolonghi. However, the team relegated and Treviso gave up the remain 50% registration rights to Pizzighettone. Bagnara also left the club in order returned to

for ''dilettanti'' (the Italian word for amateur and the "D" in Serie D state for) club Città di Jesolo for 2008–09 season, despite Pizzighettone later was re-admitted due to number of teams were expelled from the professional league. Bagnara returned to professional league again in

2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione The 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season was the thirty-second football league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the second since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It was divided into tw ...

for FeralpiSalò on a free transfer.

Amateur

In October 2010 Bagnara joined

Sant'Angelo Lodigiano Sant'Angelo Lodigiano (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Lodi in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southwest of Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi. People *Giovanni Battista Sommariva (176 ...

, an

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team. (Italian sixth highest level at that time) He was released again in summer 2011. In 2011–12 season Bagnara played for Pro Roncade, a

team (Italian eighth highest level at that time) located in

Roncade Roncade is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about southeast of Treviso. Roncade borders the following municipalities: Casale sul Sile, Meolo, Monastier d ...

, Veneto.

References

External links

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Football.it Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagnara, Eros Italian men's footballers Treviso FBC 1993 players Inter Milan players Fermana FC players Novara FC players AS Pizzighettone players Feralpisalò players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Treviso 1985 births Living people ACD Sant'Angelo 1907 players 21st-century Italian sportsmen