Andrea Capone (born 8 January 1981) is a retired Italian

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, who played as a midfielder.

Career

After developing in the

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youth system, he made his first team debut during the

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season, making 12 appearances and scoring a goal. The following season, he moved to

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side Sora on loan, with little success. He returned to Cagliari, spending three more seasons with the club, before being loaned to Treviso for the

2004–05 Serie B The 2004–05 Serie B is the 73rd season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy. Teams Arezzo, Catanzaro, Cesena and Crotone had been promoted from Serie C, while Perugia, Modena, and Empoli had been ...

season, scoring 3 goals in 29 appearances, and helping the club to achieve Serie A promotion. He returned once again to Cagliari, making his Serie A debut with the club on 28 August 2005, in an away fixture against Siena, remaining with the squad for two more seasons. He wore the

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during this time at

. This is significant as two years earlier it had been Gianfranco Zola's number, and had been retired the previous season. At the end of the

2006–07 Serie A The 2006–07 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 105th season of top-tier Italian football, the 75th in a round-robin tournament. It was scheduled to begin on 26 and 27 August, but was postponed to 2 September 200 ...

season, on 12 July 2007, it was announced that Capone had been granted a trial with

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. He has featured in a friendly 2–1 win over Peterborough United setting up a goal. Two days later he got his name on the score sheet against Queen's Park Rangers of the

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in another friendly as part of a 5–1 win. In August 2007, he joined Vicenza, scoring 8 goals in 42 appearances. In January 2009, he swapped clubs with Duccio Innocenti, moving to Grosseto. After 4 months without a club, on 29 October 2009, he signed a contract with Salernitana, effective from 2 January 2010. The side went bankrupt during the summer of 2011, making him once again a free-agent.

References

External links

Gazzetta dello Sport player profile
*http://aic.football.it/scheda/1943/capone-andrea.htm 1981 births Living people Italian men's footballers Cagliari Calcio players Treviso FBC 1993 players LR Vicenza players US Grosseto 1912 players US Salernitana 1919 players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Cagliari {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub