Christian Esposito (born 23 July 1990) is an Australian

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

er who currently plays with

North Eastern MetroStars SC North Eastern MetroStars Soccer Club, commonly known as MetroStars, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1994, the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues South Australia ...

Club career

On 9 May 2009, he made his senior debut for AlbinoLeffe against

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

in the 2008–09 Serie B season. In July 2009, Esposito was linked to a move to his hometown club

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional Association Football, soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under North American professional sports league organization#Systems ar ...

. However, despite some initial interest he later denied he wanted to return to Australia. In June 2010, he joined

Prima Divisione Prima Divisione (''First Division'') was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the ...

Champion

Novara Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...

on free transfer, which binds him with the Serie A club until June 2014. He has since been loaned out to

F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892 Football Club Pro Vercelli 1892, commonly referred to as Pro Vercelli, is an Italian football club based in Vercelli, Piedmont. The club is mostly renowned as one of the most successful teams in the early football era of Italy, with seven natio ...

and

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

References

External links

U.C. Albinoleffe profile
1990 births Living people Soccer players from Adelaide Australian people of Italian descent Association football forwards Italian footballers Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players Expatriate footballers in Italy U.C. AlbinoLeffe players S.C. Vallée d'Aoste players Novara F.C. players F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892 players U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players Serie B players National Premier Leagues players North Eastern MetroStars SC players {{Australia-footy-forward-stub