Filippo Carobbio (born 15 October 1979) is an
Italian footballer who played as a
midfielder
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.
Football career
Carobbio started his career at
Atalanta
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youth team. He was farmed to
Serie B
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and
Serie C1 teams, then jointed
Varese
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It is the c ...
in co-ownership bid. Carobbio returned to Atalanta in June 2002 but joined
AlbinoLeffe immediately.
He followed the team promoted to Serie B in summer 2003. He played his first regular Serie B season, before signed by Serie A team
Reggina
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on 25 August 2005 in joint-ownership bid, for €600,000.
[UC AlbinoLeffe Srl Report and Accounts on 30 June 2007 ]
He made his Serie A debut against
U.C. 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, ...
, on 11 September 2005.
On 25 January 2007,
Genoa C.F.C. signed Carobbio from Reggina for €300,000
[ in -year contract, he played 8 games for the Serie B third-place winner, before returned to AlbinoLeffe on 22 June 2007 from Genoa for €200,000 in 2-year contract.][ In August 2007 Genoa also acquired 50% registration rights of Gleison Santos from AlbinoLeffe, for €900,000, made Genoa instead had a net debt of €700,000 to AlbinoLeffe.
]
Bari
In June 2009, he left for Serie B champion A.S. Bari
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for their Serie A campaign on free transfer. But he did not play for Bari in the first three games before he left on loan to Grosseto
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It is the ...
on 31 August.
Siena
In July 2010 Carobbio left for Siena along with Pedro Kamata
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Club career
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for €500,000 each, in 3-year contract. Both players were part of Abdelkader Ghezzal
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's deal to Bari (Ghezzal was priced €2.25 million, thus only €1.25 million cash involved). He wore no.14 shirt. The team finished as the runner-up of 2010–11 Serie B and promoted.
In June 2011 the co-ownership deal was terminated. Bari and Siena formed a pure exchange deal, which Nicola Belmonte, Carobbio and Kamata joined Siena outright and Ghezzal moved to Bari outright. In July 2011 he was signed by Spezia Calcio.
Italian football scandal
On 31 May 2012 (effectively on 18 June 2012) he was suspended for 1 year and 8-month due to involvement in 2011–12 Italian football scandal, which Siena also terminated his contract one year earlier (originally ended on 30 June 2013) backdated to 2011–12 financial year. The ban already after a plea bargain with federal prosecutor. Carobbio had been questioned by the authority on 29 February 2012 and again on 10 July 2012.
On 1 August 2012 Carobbio was banned for 4 more months (already after plea) due to the further investigation from Cremona authority. During the investigations, Carobbio accused Antonio Conte
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Playing as a midfielder, Conte began his career at local club Lecce and later ...
, by-then Siena coach, of failure to report match-fixing, an accusation that would lead to Conte being tried and banned from footballing activities for an eventual sentence of four months. Carobbio's ban was extended again on 3 August 2012 due to the investigation from Bari authority to 26 months (2 more months).
Honours
;Spezia
* Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione
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Forerunners
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: 2012
* Lega Pro Prima Divisione
Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest 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.
Before the 1978 ...
: 2012
References
External links
Profile at gazzetta.it
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1979 births
Living people
People from Alzano Lombardo
Italian footballers
Atalanta B.C. players
U.S. Pistoiese 1921 players
U.S. Avellino 1912 players
S.S.D. Varese Calcio players
U.C. AlbinoLeffe players
Reggina 1914 players
Genoa C.F.C. players
Virtus Bergamo Alzano Seriate 1909 players
A.C.N. Siena 1904 players
F.C. Grosseto S.S.D. players
Spezia Calcio players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Association football midfielders
Sportspeople from the Province of Bergamo
Footballers from Lombardy