Mario Titone (born 14 October 1988) is an Italian

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, who currently plays as a

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for U.S.D. Recanatese 1923.

Club career

Born in

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, Sicily, Titone started his professional career with

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club Sansovino. After played once for Sansovino in

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, he was signed by

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club

Pisa Pisa ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning Tow ...

and spent 2 seasons with its Primavera team. After Pisa went bankrupt, he was signed by

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club

Sassuolo Sassuolo (; ) is an Italian town, ''comune'', and industrial centre of the Province of Modena in Emilia-Romagna. Standing on the right bank of the river Secchia some southwest of Modena, the town is best known for being the centre of the Ita ...

and farmed to

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club

Sambenedettese A.S. Sambenedettese S.r.l. is an Italian association football club, based in San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche. Sambenedettese currently plays in Serie D. History Foundation The original club was founded in 1923 as ''U.S. Sambenedettese''. ...

in co-ownership deal. On 26 June 2009, Sambenedettese bought him outright after winning the closed tender regarding the remain 50% registration rights between the two clubs. However, in July 2009, Sassuolo re-signed Titone after Sambenedettese went bankrupt. On 18 January 2011 Titone left for

Lanciano Lanciano (; ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 33,944 inhabitants as of 2023. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Church, Catholic Miracle of Lanciano, Eucharis ...

in temporary deal with option to purchase. Titone missed the whole second half of

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 ...

, except the promotion playoffs. After a short experience with

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(Romanian

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) he signs for A.S. Bisceglie Calcio 1913 (Italian

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International career

Representative teams

Titone played once for the Italy U20 Lega Pro team against

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in 2008–09 Mirop Cup. He won the annual Lega Pro Prima Divisione Trophy with U21 representative team of Group A and won Trofeo Dossena with U20 Lega Pro representative team in June 2009. During the 2009–10 season, he played once for

Italy under-21 Serie B representative team Italy national under-21 football B team is the Italy national football team that represents Serie B at competitions and is controlled by the Lega B. Due to sponsorship reasons, the team was credited as Under-21 Serie B TIM until 2010. They are t ...

in internal training match.

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile

La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2007–08 season)

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Titone, Mario 1988 births Living people People from Erice Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards AC Sansovino players Pisa SC players US Sambenedettese players US Sassuolo Calcio players CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players SS Virtus Lanciano 1924 players AS Bisceglie Calcio 1913 players Siena FC SSD players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players Imolese Calcio 1919 players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players Liga I players Italian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Italian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Footballers from the Province of Trapani 21st-century Italian sportsmen