Luca Garritano

Luca Garritano (born 11 February 1994) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or left winger for Serie A club Frosinone.

Luca Garritano
Garritano in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-02-11) 11 February 1994
Place of birth Cosenza, Italy
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder , left winger
Team information
Current team
 Frosinone
Number 16
Youth career
2008–2011 Inter
2011–2012 Cesena
2011–2012 → Inter (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2017 Cesena 98 (8)
2012–2013 → Inter (loan) 3 (0)
2015 → Modena (loan) 21 (3)
2017–2021 Chievo 80 (11)
2018 → Carpi (loan) 19 (0)
2018–2019 → Cosenza (loan) 26 (3)
2021– Frosinone 59 (4)
International career‡
2009–2010 Italy U16[1][2] 2 (2)
2011–2012 Italy U18[3] 7 (3)
2012–2013 Italy U19[3][4] 7 (1)
2013–2015 Italy U20[3] 9 (4)
2015–2017 Italy U21[3][5] 12 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 August 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 June 2017

Club career

Inter

Born in Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy, Garritano played for Inter Milan from their giovanissimi nazionali under-15 team in 2008–09 season to their allievi nazionali U17 team in 2010–11 season.

Cesena

On 30 June–1 July 2011 Garritano (50% registration rights for €700,000[6][7]) along with Luca Caldirola (50% registration rights for €2.5M[8][9]) were left for Cesena in co-ownership deals as part of €10.5 million deal to sign Yuto Nagatomo from Cesena.[10] Garritano signed a 3-year contract,[10] the maximum length an under-18 player could sign. On 1 July 2011 Garritano returned to Inter on a temporary deal, for the U18 team. Garritano scored 10 league goals in the group stage. Garritano also played for Inter U19 team 8 times. After winning the league title for U18 team, Garritano was included in the U19 squad for the playoffs round of Campionato Nazionale Primavera. He played twice, in semi-finals replacing suspended Marko Livaja and again in the final as a substitute for Daniel Bessa. In June 2012 the co-ownership deal between Inter and Cesena was renewed and Garritano remained in Inter U19 team for 2012–13 season.

Garritano made his first team debut on 4 October 2012 in 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Garritano made his debut in Serie A on 21 April in San Siro verse Parma.

In June 2013 the co-ownership of Garritano was renewed again. In July 2013 Garritano joined the pre-season camp of Cesena.[11] Circa his graduation from the youth system his also signed a new professional contract with Cesena.

Garritano made 25 appearances for Cesena in 2013–14 Serie B; he also played 3 times in for the winner of the promotion playoffs. In June 2014 the co-ownership was renewed again. However, he only played 6 times in 2014–15 Serie A; on 9 January 2015 he was signed by Serie B club Modena in a temporary deal.[12]

In June 2015 Cesena acquired the remaining 50% registration rights of Garritano from Inter, for another €50,000 fee.[13] Inter, their directors Piero Ausilio and Rinaldo Ghelfi were also fined by the Italian Football Federation in July 2016, for the price tags of Caldirola, Garritano and Nagatomo, for a total fine of €90,000. It was accused by the prosecutor that the price tags were inflated, in order to boost the club's financial positions of 2010–11 and 2011–12 financial year.[14]

Chievo

On 29 June 2017, one day before the end of Cesena and Chievo's financial year, Garritano, Rodríguez, Rigione and Daniele Grieco of Cesena were sold to Chievo for Kupisz, Filippo Zambelli, Pietro Borgogna, Lorenzo Placidi and Carloalberto Tosi to Cesena. Additionally, Lamin Jallow moved to Cesena on a temporary deal, with an option to purchase at the end of 2017–18 season.[15][16][17] Chievo bought the 4 players for a total of €15 million fee.[18][19] However, it was counter-weighed by Cesena bought the 5 players for a total of €14 million transfer fee.[18][20] The profit did benefited Cesena in 2016–17 financial year,[18] but also created a heavy burden in terms of amortization on the acquisition costs for 2017–18 financial year and beyond.[18]

In July 2018 Garritano returned to Chievo after the expiry of the loan. In the same month Cesena was declared bankrupted as well as Chievo was accused of false accounting on swap deals such as Garritano's deal.[21][22][23]

On 17 August 2018, Garritano joined to Serie B side Cosenza on loan until 30 June 2019.[24]

Frosinone

On 8 July 2021, he signed a three-year contract with Frosinone.[25]

Career statistics
As of 1 March 2023 [26]
Club statistics
Club Season League Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Cesena 2012–13 Serie B 0000000000
2013–14 252210000273
2014–15 Serie A 6000000060
2015–16 Serie B 293100000303
2016–17 383510000434
Total 98882000010610
Inter Milan (loan) 2012–13 Serie A 3000002[lower-alpha 1]050
Modena (loan) 2014–15 Serie B 21300002[lower-alpha 2]2235
Chievo 2017–18 Serie A 110200000130
2018–19 0000000000
2019–20 Serie B 31310003[lower-alpha 3]1354
2020–21 38810001[lower-alpha 4]1409
Total 80114000428813
Carpi (loan) 2017–18 Serie B 190000000190
Cosenza (loan) 2018–19 Serie B 263000000263
Frosinone 2021–22 Serie B 322000000322
2022–23 262100000272
Total 584100000594
Career totals 30529132008432635
  1. Appearances in the UEFA Europa League
  2. Appearances in the 2014–15 Relegation play-offs
  3. Appearances in the 2019–20 Promotion play-offs
  4. Appearance in the 2020–21 Promotion play-offs

International career

Garritano was a member of the Italy U19 team at the 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification and elite qualification, in which he made 4 appearances.[27] He also played 3 friendlies for the U19 team, including the first match of the season, against Croatia U19.[4][28]

On 8 October 2015, he made his debut with the Italy U21 squad, in a 3–0 win against Slovenia.

In June 2017, he was included in the Italy under-21 squad for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship by manager Luigi Di Biagio.[29] He only played once, coming on as a substitute for former Inter teammate Marco Benassi in Italy's 3–1 defeat to Spain in the semi-finals of the competition on 27 June.[5][30][31]

Honours

Inter U19

Inter U18

References
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