Carlo Vecchione (born 27 June 1988 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

) is an Italian professional

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player. Currently, he plays as a

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in the

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...

for

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on loan from Italian club Juventus F.C.

Career

Juventus

Vecchione started his career working his way through the

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

youth ranks, before he made his way to the "Primavera" youth squad in 2008. He never managed a senior team debut with Juventus during the season, but after graduating the youth team in July 2009, he was loaned out to French side,

. After one season with the club, he made 7 appearances, and returned to Juventus on 31 May 2010.

References

*http://www.goal.com *https://web.archive.org/web/20110717084650/http://www.transfremarketweb.com/ *http://www.juventus.com *https://web.archive.org/web/20070923020802/http://www.soccerway.net/ 1988 births Living people Italian men's footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Italian expatriate sportspeople in France Juventus FC players Ligue 2 players Clermont Foot players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Naples {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub