Lorenzo Benedetti (born 24 June 1992) is an Italian footballer. He plays for Seravezza Pozzi.

Biography

Benedetti started his career at

ACF Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Florence, Tuscany. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while ...

. He was the member of its U17 team in 2008–09 season. In 2009, instead of promoted to the reserve, Benedetti was allowed to leave for amateur team

Ponsacco Ponsacco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Pisa. Geography The municipality of Ponsacco contains the ''frazioni'' (subdivisions, main ...

. Benedetti left for another Serie D team

Camaiore Camaiore is a city and ''comune'' of 32,513 inhabitants within the province of Lucca, Tuscany, central-western Italy. It stretches from the Apuan Alps to the east, to the plains and the coast of Versilia to the west. History Camaiore has Roman or ...

2010–11 Serie D The 2010–11 Serie D was the sixty-third edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It originally consisted of 166 teams, with two divisions allocat ...

. In summer 2011 he was signed by his fourth Tuscan team A.C. Prato, where he played his first fully professional season in

2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season will be the thirty-fourth football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the fourth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It will be divided in ...

. He was selected to the representative team of

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in December 2011, against Italy U19. He also capped for the same team against

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and San Marino U21. He also won a youth cup in Dubai. In January 2013 he was sold to

Viareggio Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Ligurian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city in the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as well a ...

in a co-ownership deal. In June 2014 Prato bought back Benedetti. On 1 September 2014 he was signed by

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in a temporary deal. On 16 December 2015 Benedetti was released by Prato. Following that, he played the next 3.5 seasons in

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and

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, eventually earning promotion to

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing ...

for 2019–20 season with Pianese after scoring 23 goals in

in 2018–19. He was released from his contract with Pianese on 12 December 2019, after coming to agreement with

club Follonica Gavorrano five days prior. In the summer 2020, Benedetti moved to Union Feltre. A year later, he moved to Seravezza Pozzi.VIDEO SERIE D, Lorenzo BENEDETTI torna a giocare in TOSCANA
toscanagol.it, 20 July 2021

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Benedetti, Lorenzo 1992 births Sportspeople from Pietrasanta Footballers from the Province of Lucca Living people Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards ACF Fiorentina players AC Prato players ASD Olimpia Colligiana players Lucchese 1905 players US Pianese players USD Follonica Gavorrano players Serie C players Serie D players 21st-century Italian sportsmen