Alex Ferrari (born 1 July 1994) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a defender for club

Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...

. Mainly a

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, he can also play as a right-back.

Club career

Ferrari was born in

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

. He played for lowly Modena Est, before joining Bologna's youth setup in 2002, aged eight, and was promoted to the Primavera squad in the mid–2011. On 3 December 2013, Ferrari made his first-team debut, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–2 home loss against Siena, for the season's Coppa Italia. On 14 January of the following year he was loaned to

Crotone Crotone (, ; nap, label= Crotonese, Cutrone or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Calabria, Italy. Founded as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( grc, Κρότων or ; la, Crotona) in Magna Graecia, it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until ...

. In January 2017 he signed a new -year contract with Bologna. He moved on loan to Hellas Verona on 27 January 2017, lasting until the end of the season. On 12 July 2017, his loan at Verona was extended until June 2018, with an obligation to buy. On 13 June 2018, Ferrari signed to Serie A club

, on loan until 30 June 2019 with an option to buy. The deal was later turned permanent. On 2 January 2023, he joined fellow Serie A club

Cremonese Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' (Po Valley). It is the capital of the ...

on loan until the end of the 2022–23 season.

International career

Ferrari made his debut with the Italy U21 on 2 June 2016, in a friendly match against France. In June 2017, he was included in the Italy under-21 squad for the

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by manager Luigi Di Biagio. He made his only appearance of the tournament In Italy's second group match on 21 June, a 3–1 defeat to Czech Republic. Italy were eliminated in the semi-finals following a 3–1 defeat to Spain on 27 June.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Alex 1994 births Living people Footballers from Modena Men's association football defenders Italian men's footballers Italy men's youth international footballers Italy men's under-21 international footballers Bologna FC 1909 players FC Crotone players Hellas Verona FC players UC Sampdoria players US Cremonese players Serie A players Serie B players