Marco Ferrante (born 4 February 1971) is an Italian former professional

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who played as a forward. With 125 total goals scored for

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, he is the fifth-highest scorer in the history of the Torinese club behind Guglielmo Gabetto (127) and ahead of

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(123).

Club career

After spending his youth career with

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, Ferrante made his

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debut with the club's senior side against

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on 25 June 1989, winning the 1989–90 Serie A title with the team the following season. He subsequently spend two seasons in

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with Reggiana and Pisa, scoring 13 goals during the

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season. After returning to Napoli in 1992, he moved to

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in November on a co-ownership deal. The following season, Napoli sold him to newly promoted Serie A side

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. He spent the next two seasons at

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, and

side

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, respectively. Ferrante is most famous for the eight years he spent with

, after moving to the club in 1996. During his time in Turin, he became one of the club's all-time top goal-scorers, especially thanks to his goal-scoring tally in Serie B. He scored 27 goals during the 1998–99 season, which earned him the title of Serie B top-scorer, and also helped the club to gain Serie A promotion, although they were immediately relegated back to

the following season. His Serie A record tally was ten goals with Torino during the 2001–02 season, when he came back to the club following a brief stint on loan at

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in 2001 where he played 11 games and scored once against Udinese, helping Torino qualify for the

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. During that season, he notably scored a goal in the

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return leg, against local rivals and eventual champions

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, celebrating the goal by mimicking "Bull-horns" with his hands (the bull is the symbol of the Torino side, as it is the city's coat of arms; the club is also known in its contracted form as "Toro", which means bull in Italian). Juventus midfielder

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attracted controversy later in the match when he imitated Ferrante's celebration following his late equaliser, as the match ended 2–2. He remained with the club in 2004, after scoring 114 goals for the club over 235 league matches in Serie A and Serie B. He moved to Catania in 2004, spending half a

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with the club before being sold to

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, under manager

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, although he was unable to save the club from relegation to

. He spent his final season in

with

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, scoring 8 goals. He retired at the conclusion of the 2006–07 Serie B season, spending half the season with

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, and the rest with

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, who were relegated to Serie C1 at the end of the season. As of the conclusion of the 2005–06 Serie A season, Ferrante played 172

games and scored 48 goals. He also played 290

games and scored 111 goals.

International career

Ferrante made one appearance with the Italy national under-21 football team in 1992, in a friendly match against

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on 10 July. He was included in the Italian squad that took part at the

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in Barcelona, but he failed to make appearance throughout the tournament. He was never capped for Italy at senior level.

Post-playing career

After retirement, he became a football agent. In June 2019, he was appointed general manager of

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club FC Messina.

Honours

Player

Club

Napoli *

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(1): 1988–89 *

(1): 1989–90 Parma *

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(1):

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Individual

Top-scorer (1): 1998–99

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrante, Marco 1971 births Living people People from Velletri Italian men's footballers SSC Napoli players AC Reggiana 1919 players Pisa SC players Parma Calcio 1913 players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players AC Perugia Calcio players US Salernitana 1919 players Torino FC players Inter Milan players Catania FC players Bologna FC 1909 players Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Hellas Verona FC players Serie A players Serie B players Footballers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Italy Men's association football forwards Italy men's under-21 international footballers Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital