Umberto Improta (born 29 February 1984) is an Italian former footballer who played as a

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. His younger brothers

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and

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were also professional footballers.

Club career

Born in

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, Campania, Southern Italy, Improta started his senior career at

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club

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. In 2002 Improta left for Serie B club

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. He played 8 games for the first team and also played for its reserve. In 2004 Improta left for Romagna club Bellaria, his first club outside Campania. He scored 8 goals in 2004–05 Serie C2.

Triestina

After the bankruptcy of Salernitana, Improta was signed by Serie B club, North-eastern Italy club

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in August 2005. Improta spent 2 seasons on loan at Serie C1 clubs, namely Romagna club

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(

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), the rebirth Salernitana and

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 ...

(

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). Improta left for another northern Italy team

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in August 2007. In January 2008 Improta was signed by

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. In the whole

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, he only scored 2 times. Improta left for southern Italy club

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in 2008, and spent rest of his career in southern Italy. He played alongside

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. Umberto scored 7 goals in

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(ex- Serie C2). He also scored 2 goals in promotion playoffs.

Lanciano return

Improta was transferred to fellow

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(ex- Serie C1) and Abruzzo club S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924 in 2009 (the heir of SS Lanciano, bankrupted in 2008). Improta started two-fifths of the league matches (14 games), and scored 6 goals. In the next season Improta was one of the striking partner of Ilyos Zeytulayev and

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in 4–3–3 formation, with 14 starts. Improta was the backup of

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in the latter half of the season.

L'Aquila

On 24 August 2011 Improta left for his third Abruzzo club

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after the emerge of his brother Riccardo. Umberto scored 12 goals in

2011–12 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione The 2011–12 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season was the thirty-fourth football league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the fourth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It was divided into ...

as team top-scorer. L'Aquila promoted to the third division in 2013, however Improta was ruled out from the club plan.

Arzanese

Improta joined Italian fourth division club Arzanese on 27 August 2013, re-joining Francesco Ripa who left L'Aquila on 22 August.

Lamezia

In summer 2014 he was signed by

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International career

Improta received a call-up to the Italy U21 B team specially for the

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. However, he later received a call-up for the last friendly match before the tournament (against the Serie D Best XI). He was dropped from the final squad along with Adriano D'Astolfo,

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, Alessandro Moro and

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