Gennaro Ruggiero
Italian footballer
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| Intro | Italian footballer | |||
| Places | Italy | |||
| is | Athlete Football player Association football player | |||
| Work field | Sports | |||
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| Birth | 17 February 1986, Naples, Italy | |||
| Age | 38 years | |||
| Star sign | Aquarius | |||
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Biography
Gennaro Ruggiero (born 4 February 2000) is an Italian footballer who plays for the Torino U-19 squad on loan from Palermo.
Career
A physical central midfielder, and a product of Naples-based renowned youth team Mariano Keller, he was spotted by Palermo scouts and then signed in 2014.
He made his Serie A debut at the age of 17 on 14 May 2017, playing the entirety of a home league game against Genoa, and becoming the third footballer born from the year 2000 to play in the Italian top flight (after Moise Kean and Pietro Pellegri).
He was successively loaned out to Torino for the 2017–18 season, but failed to make any first team appearance during the season and appeared only for the Granata'sU-19 team before returning to Palermo, again as part of the Under-19 team.