Filippo Mancini (born 13 October 1990) is an Italian former professional

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who played as a

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Career

Internazionale

Son of former footballer

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, Filippo was born in

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when Roberto was playing for

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. He joined

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's ''Allievi Regionali'' team in 2005, when his father was the head coach of the first team. He made his first team debut coming on for the last 10 minutes in a 3–0 win against Reggina in the return leg of the

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round of 16.

Reserve career

On 31 January 2008, Internazionale announced to have loaned him to

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. He was released by Inter in July 2008. In the 2008–09 season he left for Monza along with his younger brother

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(who had one year left on his contract with Inter and was loaned to Monza). Filippo was played for Monza's ''Berretti'' Under-20 squad. That season Inter also loaned several players to the Monza reserve side, namely,

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, Luca D'Errico,

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, Giovanni Kyeremateng, Domenico Maiese, Niccolò Scaccabarozzi, Davide Tremolada and Maximiliano Uggè. The Berretti team finished as the runner-up of the league. In August 2009 he was announced as having been signed by

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outfit Bellaria–Igea. On 30 August 2010, he was signed by

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. He returned to Manchester City in 2011 with the reserve team. He played for the reserves (called Elite Development Squad) in 2012–13 season. In June 2013 he was released by Manchester City and became a free agent.

Honours

Inter Primavera (Youth/Reserve Side) *

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(runner-up): 2008 Monza Berretti (Youth/Reserve Side) *

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(runner-up): 2009

References

External links

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