Gianluca Comotto (born 16 October 1978) is a retired Italian footballer, who played as a defender.

Club career

Comotto started his career at

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. He then played one season for

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, also in Serie D.

Torino

He joined Torino in summer 1997, and played 12 games in two Serie B seasons. After Torino won promotion to Serie A, he was farmed to Vicenza, where he won promotion again. He made his Serie A debut during on loan at

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on 1 October 2000, in a match against

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. Comotto returned to Torino in summer 2001, and played his first Serie A season for Torino. Torino relegated in summer 2003, and Comotto successively played for

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(Serie A) and

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(

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), and then returned to Torino in 2004. Comotto helped the team win promotion back to Serie A again.

Roma and Return to Turin

However, because of the bankruptcy of Torino Calcio, Comotto was released for free in July 2005. Instead of signing a new contract with new Torino (Torino F.C.) in Serie B, he signed a 3-year contract with AS Roma, worth €600,000 per season in gross, on 18 August, and loaned him to

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until the end of the 2005–06 season. Comotto was re-signed by Torino in summer 2006 in a temporary deal, for €250,000 loan fee. Turin bought back 50% registration rights of Comotto in January 2007 for €1.05 million and Torino got the full rights in June 2007 for another €1.525M, making his transfer fee was €2.825 million in total. Comotto captained Torino in 2007–08 season, but his season came to early end at March 2008 due to injuries.

Fiorentina

On 5 July 2008 Comotto signed for Serie A club

for €4.8 million (but also cost ''La Viola'' an additional €198,000 as other fee) A bad injury excluded Comotto from the Champions league squad list for 2008. He made his Viola debut on 21 September 2008 in Fiorentina-Bologna, which finished 1–0. He also made his debut in the Champions League in the first leg of the qualifiers against

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on 18 August 2009 in the Stadium Jose Alvalade. He was the starting right-back in 2008–09 and 2009–10 season, but lost his place to

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season. That season he only started 16 times and only re-picked by coach in October after he criticized his squad is a reason for bad results.

Cesena

On 9 July 2011, Comotto signed a two-year deal with

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Perugia

After his contract with Cesena expired, Comotto signed a deal with

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, winning his first Lega Pro championship and gaining promotion to

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Scouting career

sporting director, Panteleo Corvino confirmed that from 4 September, Gianluca Comotto will be appointed as the club's new head of scouting. The club's attention will be turning to finding emerging talent in Portugal and Spain.

Honours

;Torino *

Runner-up: 1998–99, 2004–05

References

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Player stats
{{DEFAULTSORT:Comotto, Gianluca 1978 births Living people People from Ivrea Italian men's footballers Torino FC players LR Vicenza players ACF Fiorentina players LFA Reggio Calabria players AS Roma players Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players AC Cesena players ASD Calcio Ivrea players AC Perugia Calcio players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players Men's association football defenders Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Turin