Zak Ruggiero (born 9 January 2001) is an English

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who plays as a

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for Italian club

Trapani Trapani ( ; ; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') with 54,887 inhabitants, on the west coast of Sicily, in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the mai ...

Club career

On 11 September 2019, he signed his first professional contract with

Crotone Crotone (; ; or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Calabria, Italy. Founded as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( or ; ), it became a great Greek city, home of the renowned mathematician-philosopher Pythagoras amongst other famous citizens, and one ...

for a term of 5 years. He made his

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 ...

debut for Crotone on 29 December 2019 in a game against

. He substituted Junior Messias in the 85th minute. On 25 September 2020 he was loaned to

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

Pro Vercelli Football Club Pro Vercelli 1892, commonly referred to as Pro Vercelli, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in Vercelli, Piedmont. The club is mostly renowned as one of the most successful teams in the early football era of Ital ...

. On 1 February 2021, he was sent on another

loan to Pro Sesto. On 31 August 2021, he was loaned to

Lucchese Lucchese may refer to: * A.S. Lucchese Libertas 1905, a football team based in Lucca, Tuscany * Lucchese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of New York City's Mafia * Lucchese School, an art school in Tuscany, Italy that flourished in the 11 ...

, again in

. On 26 July 2022, Ruggiero signed with

Cerignola Cerignola (; ) is a town and ''comune'' of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Foggia, southeast from the town of Foggia. It has the third-largest land area of any ''comune'' in Italy, at , after Rome and Ravenna and it has the largest land ar ...

Personal life

His father is Italian and his mother English. He was born in England but moved to

a few months later.

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* * 2001 births Living people Footballers from Bishop Auckland English people of Italian descent Sportspeople of Italian descent Italian people of English descent English men's footballers Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Serie B players Serie C players FC Crotone players FC Pro Vercelli 1892 players Pro Sesto 1913 players Lucchese 1905 players SS Audace Cerignola players FC Trapani 1905 players 21st-century Italian sportsmen 21st-century English sportsmen {{Italy-footy-forward-2000s-stub