Gianluca Grava (born 7 March 1977) is an Italian retired

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

defender who currently works as Technical Director of the youth sector for

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

club

Napoli 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 ...

Career

He made his

debut at the age of 30 in Napoli's 5–0 victory over

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

on 2 September 2007; he had previously made over 350 appearances with various clubs in the lower divisions of Italian football. On 1 July 2011, he extended his contract again.

Honours

;Napoli *

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), 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 ...

: 2005–06 *

Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

: 2011–12

References

1977 births Living people Italian men's footballers Casertana FC players SS Turris Calcio players Ternana Calcio players US Catanzaro 1929 players SSC Napoli players Serie A players Serie B players Men's association football defenders People from Caserta Footballers from Campania {{Italy-footy-defender-1970s-stub