Lisa Alborghetti (born 19 June 1993) is an Italian

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who plays as a

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and

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. She plays for Italy national team.

Club career

Alborghetti started playing for ACF Brescia at the age of 15, when the team was playing in the second division (Serie B) in 2008. The club reached the

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for the first time in the 2009–10 season with Alborghetti scoring the club's first ever goal at the top division. With two Serie A titles, three

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titles and three Italian Women's Super Cup titles, almost 200 matches played in all competitions in eight years with the club, it was announced on 30 June 2016 that she was joining

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. In February 2017, She returned to Italy and played for Atalanta Mozzanica. She stayed there for one more season. In 2018–19 she played for newly founded team A.C. Milan Women.

International career

Alborghetti has represented her country in the under-17 team and under-19 team, where she scored two goals in the

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against

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and

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.Seven-goal Bjånesøy takes scoring prize

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.com She made her debut for the

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on 8 March 2013 against

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Honours

;ACF Brescia *

: 2014, 2016 *

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: 2012, 2015, 2016 *

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: 2014, 2015, 2016

References

1993 births Living people Italian women's footballers Italy women's international footballers Footballers from Brescia Women's association football forwards Serie A (women's football) players Expatriate women's footballers in Cyprus SSD Brescia Calcio Femminile players Apollon Ladies F.C. players AC Milan Women players Atalanta Mozzanica Calcio Femminile Dilettantistico players Inter Milan (women) players 21st-century Italian sportswomen {{Italy-women-footy-bio-stub