Mirko Palazzi (born 21 March 1987) is an

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Sammarinese Sammarinese () are citizens and people of the Republic of San Marino. Language San Marino recognizes Italian as the official language. The indigenous Sammarinese language is a variety of Romagnol spoken by approximately 83 percent of the populati ...

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who plays as a defender for Tre Penne and the San Marino national team.

Club career

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, Palazzi for a while was the only professional Sanmarinese footballer. He started his career at hometown club

Rimini Rimini ( , ; or ; ) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is ...

. However Palazzi only played once in

2006–07 Serie C2 The 2006–07 Serie C2 was the football (soccer) league season of Italian Serie C2 for the years 2006 and 2007. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 3, 2006 to May 13, 2007 and the playoff phase. Once the regul ...

. Palazzi then played 2 seasons in Serie D for Verucchio, a local side within the Province of Rimini. Palazzi played for Sanmarinese amateur club Tre Penne. He scored two goals in

2010–11 UEFA Europa League The 2010–11 UEFA Europa League was the second season of the UEFA Europa League, Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 40th edition overall including its predecessor, the UEFA Cup. It began on 1 July 2010, with ...

before returned to Rimini for the re-established Rimini:

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with the new entity being admitted Serie D after the old entity was expelled from Lega Pro. A.C. Rimini was promoted in that season as the winner of inter-group promotion playoffs. Ahead of the 2019-20 season, Palazzi joined Italian club AS San Giovanni Marignanese.

International career

He was first called-up to the

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in 2005 ahead of their match in

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against

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. He was capped in the last two matches of

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, as well as also featuring in a game in

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2008 finals tournament took place between August 2006 and November 2007. Fifty teams were divided into seven groups. In a Round-robin tournament, double round-robin system, each team played against each of the others ...

. He scored his first international goal for San Marino against

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in a FIFA World Cup qualification match in 2017, in a 5-1 defeat.

International goals

:''Scores and results list San Marino's goal tally first.''

Personal life

He was born in

, Emilia–Romagna, Italy to an Italian father and a Sammarinese mother.Mirko Palazzi, dal Castelnuovo al tempio di Wembley con la maglia del San Marino
(in Italian) Palazzi works as a sales advisor while also playing football.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Palazzi, Mirko 1987 births Living people Footballers from Rimini Sammarinese men's footballers Sammarinese expatriate men's footballers Serie C players Serie D players Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio players Lega Pro Seconda Divisione players Men's association football midfielders Sammarinese people of Italian descent Italian people of Sammarinese descent San Marino men's international footballers Rimini FC 1912 players Cosenza Calcio players AC Bellaria Igea Marina players San Marino Calcio players SP Tre Penne players S.S. Cosmos players Sammarinese expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy