Alessandro Pellicori (born 22 July 1981) is a former Italian footballer and football coach. He played as a striker. On 11 August 2012 he was suspended 3 year for alleged

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Career

Pellicori started his professional career at

Cosenza Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...

then

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...

. He made his

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debut on 14 January 2001 against

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. Lecce loaned him to various

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

clubs until settled in

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the m ...

. Pellicori signed for

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

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in summer 2006, but he was signed by Serie B rival

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on 31 January 2007. On 22 August, he moved to newly promoted Serie B team

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. He scored 18 goals but could not avoid the team finished as the top of the four relegated teams. On 29 July 2009

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signed Pellicori on a free transfer until June 2012. He scored his first goal for QPR in a first round

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tie at

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on 11 August 2009. However, he failed to score in the league and joined Mantova on loan in January 2010. In August 2010, he penned a season long loan deal at

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References

External links

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Player profile on TuttoMantova.it
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pellicori, Alessandro 1981 births Footballers from Cosenza Living people Men's association football forwards Italian men's footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Italian expatriate sportspeople in England Cosenza Calcio 1914 players US Lecce players US Avellino 1912 players SSD Varese Calcio players Calcio Foggia 1920 players Benevento Calcio players US Grosseto 1912 players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players AC Cesena players Queens Park Rangers F.C. players Mantova 1911 players Torino FC players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players English Football League players Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games US Castrovillari Calcio players