Luca Salvatore Ricci (born February 23, 1998) is a Canadian professional
soccer
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player who plays as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Ricci began his career with the
Montreal Impact Academy.
Ricci was loaned to
Phoenix Rising FC for the 2018 season on February 2, 2018. He signed with
Ottawa Fury FC on February 1, 2019. He joined the Fury's
MLS-affiliate
Montreal Impact on an emergency loan under the Emergency Hardship Rule.
In 2021, he began playing university soccer for the
Montreal Carabins, while also playing in the semi-pro
PLSQ with
FC Lanaudière
Football Club Lanaudière was a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Lanaudière-Nord, Quebec that plays in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. The club was founded in 2016 by the Association Régionale de Soccer (ARS) Lanaudià ...
.
At the
2022 CPL-U Sports Draft, he was selected 8th overall by
Pacific FC
Pacific Football Club is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Greater Victoria, British Columbia. The club competes in the Canadian Premier League, playing home matches at Starlight Stadium located in Langford.
History
On May 5, 201 ...
. On May 12, 2022, he signed a U Sports contract with Pacific. He departed the club at the end of the season.
International career
In 2017, he was called up to a Quebec-Canada U20 team to play friendlies against
Haiti U20, who were preparing for the
2017 Jeux de la Francophonie
The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as ''VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie'' ( French for ''8th Francophone Games''), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. This was the first edition of ...
.
Personal life
Ricci was born in
LaSalle, Quebec, Canada to Italian parents. His mother was born in
Calabria
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, Italy. He speaks English, French and Italian.
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1998 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Canadian men's soccer players
People from LaSalle, Quebec
Soccer players from Montreal
Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent
Canadian people of Calabrian descent
Canadian expatriate men's soccer players
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
CF Montréal players
Phoenix Rising FC players
Ottawa Fury FC players
FC Lanaudière players
Pacific FC draft picks
Pacific FC players
USL Championship players
Ligue1 Québec players