Giuseppe De Luca (born 11 October 1991) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a

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for club

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Club career

De Luca began the youth career in

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. He was the joint-top-scorer in 2011 Viareggio Youth Cup, along with Internazionale's

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. He made his first team debut in a friendly match. Since then he played 4

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matches and scored 1 goal. He then became one of Varese's key players in the two following campaigns. On 30 August 2012, De Luca joined Atalanta on loan for the

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season. As part of the deal, Atalanta's Moussa Koné moved in the opposite direction. He made his

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debut on 18 September, against

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. His top flight goal came on 4 November, the last of a 2–1 away win over

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. He appeared regularly for ''La Dea'', mainly as a backup to

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. On 18 June 2013, Atalanta decided to buy him outright and activated the buyout clause in the loan deal. He went loaned to Serie B side

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along with a teammate

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on 20 July 2014. On 7 July 2018, he joined Romanian club

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on loan from

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, who bought out his rights from

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following the conclusion of the 2017–18 season.

International career

De Luca played once for the

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in 2010–11 season, scored a goal. He also played twice for the U20 national team in 2010–11 season. In 2011–12 season De Luca played once for Italy U21 Serie B team in October. On 9 November 2011, he scored one goal for Italy U20 in a 3–0 victory over Ghana. He also started the next match, the fifth game of Four Nations Tournament against Switzerland; the unofficial friendly against "U21 Serie B team" in December 2011; against Macedonia in January 2012; 6th match of Four Nations, against

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in February 2012 and in April 2012 against

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. In April 2012 De Luca received his first formal U21 call-up, De Luca already received a call-up to training camp in March (which he played the practice match against

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.).

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made an experimental squad without U21 regular. After 2 players withdrew, the team did not have Serie A players, but three players from the reserve team of the Serie A club and 16 Serie B players. Despite inferior, Italy won

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4–1. De Luca played the match as the substitute of

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. On 26 July 2021, he joined Serie C club

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Honours

Club

CFR Cluj *

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: 2018–19 *

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:De Luca, Giuseppe 1991 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Varese Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players SSD Varese Calcio players Atalanta BC players SSC Bari players LR Vicenza players Virtus Entella players US Triestina Calcio 1918 players Catania FC players Liga I players CFR Cluj players Italy men's youth international footballers Italy men's under-21 international footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Italian expatriate sportspeople in Romania