Fabrizio Anzalone (born 24 July 1978) is an Italian former

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. He played over 140 games in

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and over 110 games in

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

. He only briefly played in Serie B in 2006–07 season.

Biography

Early career

Born in Genoa, Liguria, Anzalone started his career at

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He made his Serie B debut on 13 April 1997, replacing Filippo Masolini in the final minutes. Since 1997–98 season he was loaned to Serie C2 teams Catanzaro,

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and

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. In mid-2000 he was sold to Serie C1 and Ligurian side Spezia. He only played 7 times before transferred to Alzano in January 2002, as the club bought Spezia's half. In June 2002 Genoa gave up the remain 50% registration rights to Alzano. He played 26 times in

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but the team bankrupted at the end of season.

Ravenna

Since 2003–04 season Anzalone played for

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, winning promotion play-offs in 2005 (partnered with Marco Bianchi as centre-backs) and after two seasons in Serie C1, promoted to Serie B in 2007 as Group B champion. The team relegated back to ''Prima Divisione'' in 2008. On 2 February 2009 he was exchanged with

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Cremonese Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' (Po Valley). It is the capital of the ...

. He only played 18 games in

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

Carrarese

On 6 August 2010 he was transferred to ''Seconda Divisione'' side

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. he played 25 games and plus all 4 games in promotion play-offs, partnering

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. He also played the first two games of the cup. Carrarese was promoted as play-offs winner. On 18 June 2011 he signed a new 1-year contract.

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2007–08)

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