Romain Achilli (born 15 February 1993) is a French

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a forward for Gallia Club Lucciana.

Club career

A former striker, Achilli gained his first call-up to the first-team of his hometown club

Bastia Bastia ( , , , ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest popu ...

in March 2013 against

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

. He then made his competitive debut a few months later, in a

Coupe de la Ligue The Coupe de la Ligue (), known outside France as the French League Cup, was a knockout cup competition in French football organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel. The tournament was established in 1993 and, unlike the Coupe de France ...

match against Evian TG in December 2013, starting as a left-back. He debuted in

Ligue 1 Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in France and the highest level of the French football league system. Administered by the Ligue de ...

on 1 March 2014, in an away match against

FC Lorient Football Club Lorient Bretagne Sud (;), commonly referred to as FC Lorient (), is a French professional association football club based in Lorient, Brittany. The club was founded in 1926 and currently competes in Ligue 2, having been relegated f ...

. In January 2016, Achilli signed for FC Dieppe. In August 2017, Achilli returned to former club SC Bastia as one of four new signings announced by the club, which had played in

in the 2016–17 season but dropped to the fifth-tier

Championnat National 3 The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simply National 3 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur 2, is a football league competition. The league serves as the fifth division of the French football league system behind ...

after filing bankruptcy.

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* * 1993 births Living people Footballers from Bastia French men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Corsica men's international footballers Ligue 1 players SC Bastia players 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub