Stefano Giacomelli (born 30 April 1990) is an Italian

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who plays as a

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for

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club Luparense.

Club career

Foligno

Born in

Spoleto Spoleto (, also , , ; ) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is south of Trevi, north of Terni, southeast of Perugia; southeast of Florence; and north of Rome. H ...

, Umbria, Giacomelli started his career with

Foligno Foligno (; Central Italian, Southern Umbrian: ''Fuligno'') is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennine Mountains, Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clit ...

. He made his league debut during

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 ...

season, and often made substitute appearances in the next season, but in

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. In July 2008, he was loaned to the under-20 team of Internazionale, but only scored one goal for the team in the regular season of

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, ranked the 5th among the strikers (behind Aiman Napoli,

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and

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) and ranked equal 9th among the whole team. He also scored one of the two goals of Inter in the playoffs round. He also played as a left midfielder for the Primavera team. On 1 July 2009 Giacomelli returned to

and scored 13 league goals in 2009–10 season, which is the team joint-topscorer along with Matteo Cavagna, ahead Juan Martin Turchi. In the first half of 2010–11 season, he scored 5 goals as joint team top-scorer at that time, along with Daniele Sciaudone. However, Giacomelli left the club on 31 January, making him ranked as the equal third along with

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, behind Sciaudone and Matteo Coresi (7 goals) in the whole season.

Pescara

On 31 January 2011 Giacomelli was sold to

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in a co-ownership deal in a 4-year contract, for €140,000 transfer fee. On 25 June 2011 Pescara acquired Giacomelli outright, for another €161,000, by submitting a higher tender bid (to

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) against Foligno on the deadline day.Delfino Pescara 1936 S.r.l. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2011 (in Italian)
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/ref> On 30 January 2012, after one full calendar year with Pescara, Giacomelli signed a loan deal with Ternana until the end of the 2011-2012 season.

Vicenza

In June 2012 he was sold to

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club

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for €2.3 million in a 4-year contract, but in terms of the value of the registration rights of

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who joined Pescara also for €2.3M. On 29 August 2015 Giacomelli signed a new 3-year contract with Vicenza. He signed a new contract again in summer 2017. After the bankruptcy of Vicenza Calcio, Giacomelli signed a new contract with the club's new legal person

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on 12 July 2018.

International career

Representative teams

In June 2008, Giacomelli was capped for the Italy under-20 Lega Pro representative team for the Trofeo Dossena, losing out to the Grêmio youth team following a

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. As he returned to

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in the summer of 2009, he was also capped for the representative team at the 2008–09 Mirop Cup, against Slovenia (twice) and at the 2009–11 International Challenge Trophy (against Malta, Romania and Belgium); he scored twice against

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. He also won the 2010 Trofeo Dossena with the Lega Pro representative team, in which he scored the winning goal against the Internacional youth team. With the Italy under-20 A team, he was capped once against

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at the 2009–10 Four Nations Tournament, replacing Federico Carraro in the first half.

Honours

;Foligno *

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: 2006–07

References

External links

FIGC

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giacomelli, Stefano 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Spoleto Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Inter Milan players ASD Città di Foligno 1928 players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Ternana Calcio players LR Vicenza players Mantova 1911 players Serie B players Serie C players Footballers from Umbria 21st-century Italian sportsmen