Andrea Raggi (; born 24 June 1984) is an Italian retired professional
footballer
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who played as a
defender. He was a versatile player, being capable of playing both as a
centre back
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and as a
right back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
.
Club career
Raggi started his footballing career with
Empoli, where he spent a total of four seasons with the first team.
Palermo
On 28 May 2008, Empoli announced his sale to
Palermo for €7 million on a four-year contract.
His failure to break into the first team led Palermo to send Raggi out on loan to a number of teams. In January 2009 he joined
Sampdoria
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The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...
, then moving again to spend the whole of the 2009–10 season with
Bologna
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.
Bari loan
In July 2010, he was loaned out for a third consecutive time, joining
Bari.
He was out-favoured by
Giampiero Ventura
Gian Piero Ventura (; born 14 January 1948) is an Italian football manager.
His playing career as a midfielder was spent in the lower leagues, having not made the grade at Sampdoria, where he began his coaching career with the youth team in 197 ...
in mid-season, who originally expected Raggi to play as a centre-back. Instead, Raggi was the starting right-back as
Andrea Masiello
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, originally a right-back, remained as a temporary centre-back which Masiello already played since January 2010. He also played as a left-back to replace
Alessandro Parisi against
Roma
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on 12 December. After the closure of the winter transfer window, Parisi and Masiello re-took the full-backs position, after the signing of centre-back
Kamil Glik
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. Raggi blamed Ventura for playing so few games.
The following August, he permanently moved to
Bologna
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, for €200,000.
Monaco
In July 2012, Raggi moved to
Monaco
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, and later signed a three-year contract with the team. On 19 April 2017, after defeating
Borussia Dortmund
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6–3 on aggregate, AS Monaco reached the semi–finals of the
2016–17 UEFA Champions League
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The final was pl ...
. Later that year, Raggi won the
2016–17 Ligue 1
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On 17 May 2017, ...
title with the club. In September 2017, he signed a two-year contract extension on a €2 million annual salary, which would keep him at the club until June 2019, with AS Monaco confirming Raggi's departure on 28 June 2019
International career
On 24 March 2007, Raggi made his International debut for the
Italy U-21 side against the
England U21
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team in a 3–3 draw at the new
Wembley Stadium
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.
Career statistics
Honours
Empoli
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Serie B
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:
2004–05
Monaco
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Ligue 1:
2016–17
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Ligue 2:
2012–13
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Individual
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Ligue 2 Team of the Season:
2012–13
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References
External links
Profile at Football.it
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1984 births
Living people
People from La Spezia
Sportspeople from the Province of La Spezia
Italian footballers
Footballers from Liguria
Association football defenders
Italy under-21 international footballers
Empoli F.C. players
Palermo F.C. players
U.C. Sampdoria players
Bologna F.C. 1909 players
S.S.C. Bari players
AS Monaco FC players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Italian expatriate footballers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
Expatriate footballers in Monaco