Paolo Carbonaro (born 16 February 1989) is an Italian

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who plays as a

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for

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Club career

Born in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

, Carbonaro is a product of Palermo's youth system. He made his Serie A debut on 18 May 2008, substituting

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in the 79th minute in the ''rosaneros final 2007–08 league game against

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. Both team failed to score more goal afterward and ended as a 2–2 draw. He was loaned at

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club

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on 1 September 2008. On 18 July 2009, he was loaned to

Giulianova Giulianova ( Giuliese: ' ) is a coastal town and ''comune'' in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo region, Italy. The ''comune'' also has city ( it, città) status, thus also known as Città di Giulianova. Geography The town lies in the north of the A ...

Barletta and Gela

On 30 July 2010, he was loaned to

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. Originally one of the starting striker in a 4–3–3 formation, he found himself out of the starting lineup after

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chose to bet on experienced central forward

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instead. On 31 January 2011, Palermo announced Carbonaro would complete the 2010–11 season with Sicilian

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club

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. In the summer 2011 he moved permanently to

. He started the 2012–13 season with

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

, and then joined

club HinterReggio during the January 2013 transfer window, being unable to save his team from relegation to

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. He stayed in the Seconda Divisione for the 2013–14 season, playing with

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and

Cosenza Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...

respectively. In August 2014 he joined Aversa Normanna of

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Serie D

In July 2019 he signed for

club FC Messina. In June 2020, he extended for one more season his contract with the Sicilians. On 3 August 2021 he moved to

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. He successively joined

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for the first half of the

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season, then leaving for

later in December 2022.

International career

Carbonaro was also briefly part of the Italian under-19 and under-20 national teams.

References

External links

*
La Gazzetta dello Sport profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carbonaro, Paolo 1989 births Living people Footballers from Palermo Men's association football forwards Italian footballers Serie A players Serie C players Serie D players Palermo F.C. players A.S.D. Barletta 1922 players S.S.D. Città di Gela players Giulianova Calcio players U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players Vigor Lamezia players Cosenza Calcio players S.S. Monopoli 1966 players A.S.D. Real Agro Aversa players A.C. Monza players Venezia F.C. players S.S.D. F.C. Messina players Cavese 1919 players