Nicola Pozzi (soccer player)
| Nicola Pozzi | ||
 Nicola Pozzi (2011)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | June 30, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Santarcangelo di Romagna , Italy | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| AC Cesena | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2003 | AC Cesena | 19 (4) |
| 2004 | AC Milan | 0 (0) |
| 2004 | → SSC Napoli (loan) | 3 (1) |
| 2005 | → Pescara Calcio (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2005-2009 | FC Empoli | 108 (28) |
| 2009-2014 | Sampdoria Genoa | 84 (27) |
| 2013 | → AC Siena (loan) | 3 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | Parma FC | 3 (0) |
| 2015 | → Chievo Verona (loan) | 14 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2002-2003 | Italy U-17 | 8 (5) |
| 2003-2004 | Italy U-18 | 2 (0) |
| 2005 | Italy U-20 | 2 (0) |
| 2006-2008 | Italy U-21 | 8 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of June 9, 2015 |
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Nicola Pozzi (born June 30, 1986 in Santarcangelo di Romagna , Province of Rimini ) is an Italian football player .
Club career
Pozzi comes from the youth department of AC Cesena . In 2002 he joined at the age of 17 years to the first team in the then Serie C played. In the winter break of the 2003/04 season he was signed by one of the most successful Italian football clubs, AC Milan . At his young age, however, he was unable to assert himself against the team's many top stars. Even if Pozzi did not appear in Milan, he was part of the Rossoneri squad, which won the Italian championship in 2004. In order to gain match practice, he was then loaned to SSC Napoli and Pescara Calcio for half a year . However, the striker was only used sporadically at both clubs.
Another loan deal followed in the summer of 2005 with FC Empoli , which had been promoted from Serie B to Serie A in the preseason . There he completed 24 league games in his first season and scored 4 goals. Mainly he was used as a substitute. In the following season, Empoli received the rights as co-owner to the player. In the 3-1 win of his team against his former loan club SSC Napoli on February 17, 2008, the striker injured his cruciate ligament and therefore fell out of the rest of the second half of the season. Nevertheless, he was permanently signed by Empoli for the future. In return, Ignazio Abate returned to AC Milan. In the summer of 2009 it was awarded to Sampdoria Genoa and finally sold to the Genoese in the following year.
National team
Pozzi went through various stations in the Italian junior selection. For the U-21 national team of Italy, he played a total of eight games and scored one goal. Due to his injury in February 2008, he was removed from the Italian selection for the 2008 Summer Olympics again.
successes
- Italian champion : 2004 (with AC Milan)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pozzi, Nicola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santarcangelo di Romagna , Italy |