Filippo Carobbio (born 15 October 1979) is an

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manager and a former player who played as a

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. He is the manager of

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club RG Ticino.

Football career

Carobbio started his career at

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youth team. He was farmed to

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and

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teams, then jointed

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in co-ownership bid. Carobbio returned to Atalanta in June 2002 but joined AlbinoLeffe immediately. He followed the team promoted to Serie B in summer 2003. He played his first regular Serie B season, before signed by Serie A team Reggina on 25 August 2005 in joint-ownership bid, for €600,000.UC AlbinoLeffe Srl Report and Accounts on 30 June 2007 He made his Serie A debut against

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, on 11 September 2005. On 25 January 2007,

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signed Carobbio from Reggina for €300,000 in -year contract, he played 8 games for the Serie B third-place winner, before returned to AlbinoLeffe on 22 June 2007 from Genoa for €200,000 in 2-year contract. In August 2007 Genoa also acquired 50% registration rights of

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from AlbinoLeffe, for €900,000, made Genoa instead had a net debt of €700,000 to AlbinoLeffe.

Bari

In June 2009, he left for Serie B champion A.S. Bari for their Serie A campaign on free transfer. But he did not play for Bari in the first three games before he left on loan to

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on 31 August.

Siena

In July 2010 Carobbio left for Siena along with

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for €500,000 each, in 3-year contract. Both players were part of

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's deal to Bari (Ghezzal was priced €2.25 million, thus only €1.25 million cash involved). He wore no.14 shirt. The team finished as the runner-up of

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and promoted. In June 2011 the co-ownership deal was terminated. Bari and Siena formed a pure exchange deal, which Nicola Belmonte, Carobbio and Kamata joined Siena outright and Ghezzal moved to Bari outright. In July 2011 he was signed by

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Italian football scandal

On 31 May 2012 (effectively on 18 June 2012) he was suspended for 1 year and 8-month due to involvement in 2011–12 Italian football scandal, which Siena also terminated his contract one year earlier (originally ended on 30 June 2013) backdated to 2011–12 financial year. The ban already after a

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with federal prosecutor. Carobbio had been questioned by the authority on 29 February 2012 and again on 10 July 2012. On 1 August 2012 Carobbio was banned for 4 more months (already after plea) due to the further investigation from Cremona authority. During the investigations, Carobbio accused

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, by-then Siena coach, of failure to report match-fixing, an accusation that would lead to Conte being tried and banned from footballing activities for an eventual sentence of four months. Carobbio's ban was extended again on 3 August 2012 due to the investigation from Bari authority to 26 months (2 more months).

Honours

;Spezia *

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: 2012 *

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: 2012

References

External links

Profile at gazzetta.it
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