Giulio Falcone

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Giulio Falcone
Personnel
birthday May 31, 1974
place of birth Atri ,  Italy
size 184 cm
position defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1993 Torino Calcio
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1996 Torino Calcio 26 (0)
1996-1999 AC Florence 83 (1)
1999-2003 Bologna FC 75 (0)
2003-2007 Sampdoria Genoa 101 (0)
2007-2009 Parma FC 39 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1996 Italy U-21 7 (0)
2006 Italy 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Giulio Falcone (born May 31, 1974 in Atri ) is a former Italian football player who was active during his playing career for Torino Calcio , Fiorentina , Bologna FC , Sampdoria Genoa and Parma FC . He also played a game for the Italian national soccer team .

Career

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Giulio Falcone began his career in the youth team of Torino Calcio , for whose professional team he completed his first two games in Serie A in the 1993/94 season . The defender became an integral part of the Piedmontese team's defense in his third season when he was used in 21 games. After relegation in the summer of 1996, he left the club and signed a contract with Fiorentina . He was also part of the regular squad at Fiorentina and qualified for the UEFA Cup in fifth place in the 1997/98 season . The following season he finished third with Florence.

In the summer of 1999 he went to league rivals FC Bologna . After fighting for relegation in the first two seasons with Bologna, he placed with the team in seventh place in the 2001/02 season , which narrowly missed participation in an international cup competition. In the following season, Falcone was able to secure the league with the Emilian team and then moved to Sampdoria Genoa . While he reached a placement in the middle of the table in his first season with the Blucerchiati , he qualified in the 2005/05 season in fifth place for the international cup competition.

The Portuguese representative Vitória Setúbal was defeated in the first round , before Genoa failed in the group stage after losing to RC Lens . Although Falcone was still part of the Genoese regular squad, the re-participation in the UEFA Cup was missed in the following two seasons. The veteran defender signed for Parma FC in the summer of 2007 . As the second from bottom of Serie A, he had to relegate to Serie B with a club for the first time in his career . A year later , the defender managed to return to the top division with Parma. Then he ended his active career.

National team

Falcone was appointed in 1993 by then coach Cesare Maldini for the first time in the squad of the Italian U-21 team, for which he made his debut on November 18, 1993 in the game against Luxembourg. He played his last game for the U-21s on February 21, 1996 against Hungary. The defender played his only international match for Italy against Croatia on August 16, 2006 .

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personal data
SURNAME Falcone, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Atri