Tommaso Bellazzini (born 23 December 1987) is an Italian

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who plays as an

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or winger for Aglianese.

Club career

Born in

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 ...

, Bellazzini started his career at local

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 ...

. After playing two seasons with ''La Viola's'' Primavera team, he joined Pistoiese in co-ownership deal in 2005. Two years later, Bellazzini joined the latter in a full status. He was the regular of the

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side and finished 16th with team in 2008–09 season. On 4 July 2009, a few days before the club's bankruptcy, Bellazzini was loaned to

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

side

Cittadella Cittadella () is a medieval walled city in the province of Padua, northern Italy, founded in the 13th century as a military outpost of Padua. The surrounding wall has been restored and is in circumference with a diameter of around . There are fo ...

, reuniting with former teammate Leonardo Pettinari, after sharing rooms at Fiorentina's youth squads. On 25 January 2013 Bellazzini was signed by

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; or , archaically ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione, River Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and e ...

, with Mattia Minesso moved to opposite direction. On 2 August 2013 Bellazzini joined

Lecce Lecce (; ) is a city in southern Italy and capital of the province of Lecce. It is on the Salentine Peninsula, at the heel of the Italian Peninsula, and is over two thousand years old. Because of its rich Baroque architecture, Lecce is n ...

. On 16 July 2014 Bellazzini was signed by

Venezia Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

. On 26 June 2015 Bellazzini was signed by

Pavia Pavia ( , ; ; ; ; ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino (river), Ticino near its confluence with the Po (river), Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was a major polit ...

. On 5 December 2019, he signed with

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 ...

club

Giana Erminio Associazione Sportiva Giana Erminio S.r.l. is an Italian football club based in Gorgonzola, Lombardy. The team currently plays in Italy's . History The club was founded in 1909 as ''Unione Sportiva Argentia'', and later adopted the current name ...

until the end of the 2019–20 season. On 30 September 2020, he joined

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

club Aglianese.

International career

Bellazzini appeared with Italy under-18's in three matches during 2005.

References

External links

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Profile at Cittadella

Profile at FIGC

* Italian men's footballers Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players ACF Fiorentina players FC Pistoiese SSD players AS Cittadella players LR Vicenza players US Lecce players US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players AS Giana Erminio players Aglianese Calcio 1923 players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Pisa 1987 births Living people 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub