Danilo Alessandro (born 3 August 1988) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

club Cynthialbalonga.

Career

Born in Rome, Lazio, Alessandro started his career at

Eccellenza Lazio Eccellenza Lazio is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Lazio, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have ...

(Italian sixth level until 2014) club Mentana Jenne, based in Jenne, in the Province of Rome. In January 2009 he was signed by

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

(Italian third level) club

A.C. Cesena A.C. Cesena, commonly referred to as Cesena (), was an Italian football club based in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. The club spent most of its history in professional leagues such as Serie A and Serie B, but went bankrupt and folded in 2018. Another ...

. The club finished as the champion of Group A of

2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season is the thirty-first since its renaming to Serie C1 in 1978, and the first edition since the renaming from Serie C1 to Lega Pro. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from Septemb ...

and runner-up in 2009

Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione The Supercoppa di Serie C, formerly named Supercoppa di Lega Pro, is an Italian football competition played by the three group winners of Serie C, inaugurated in 2000. Forerunners The FIGC introduced a third-level national football championship f ...

. In 2009, he left professional football for

Voghera The Castle of Voghera in a 19th-century etching. Voghera ( Vogherese dialect of Emilian: ''Vughera''; Latin: ''Forum Iulii Iriensium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy. The population was 39,374 ...

. He scored 22 goals in

2009–10 Serie D The 2009–10 Serie D was the sixty-second edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 167 divided into six 18-team divisions, one 1 ...

(Italian fifth division until 2014). On 1 July 2010 he was signed by

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...

club

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the ...

. He made 27 appearances in his maiden season in the second division, as no.88. He wore no.23 shirt in

2011–12 Serie B The 2011–12 Serie B (known as the Serie bwin for sponsorship reasons) was the eightieth season since its establishment in 1929. A total of 22 teams will contest the league: 15 of which returning from the 2010–11 season, four of which promot ...

, which he only played 9 times. On 13 January 2012 he was signed by

Taranto Taranto (, also ; ; nap, label= Tarantino, Tarde; Latin: Tarentum; Old Italian: ''Tarento''; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important com ...

of the third division. The club folded in 2012 due to financial difficulties. A new entity was admitted to

2012–13 Serie D The 2012–13 Serie D was the sixty-fifth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 162 teams divided into nine 18-team divisions. ...

. However Alessandro returned to

instead of remained in

. In 2013 Alessandro joined Real Vicenza. He scored a goal in pre-season friendly on 3 August. On 5 August 2013 the club was admitted from

2013–14 Serie D The 2013–14 Serie D was the sixty-sixth edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fifth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 161 teams, after the exclusion of Nardò and ...

2013–14 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione The 2013–14 Seconda Divisione season is the thirty-sixth and final football league season of Italian Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the sixth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It is divided into two phases: th ...

, to fill 1 of 7 vacancies, despite at the end of season also saw the merger of the two divisions of

Lega Pro The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

, which 18 teams instead of 9 teams would be relegated. Real Vicenza qualified for 2014–15 season as the 7th of Group A. Alessandro also scored 19 goals as team topscorer as well as joint-second topscorer of the fourth division along with Roberto Floriano (Group A) and Francesco Ripa (Group B) On 27 July 2019, he joined

Campobasso Campobasso (, ; nap, label= Campobassan, Cambuàsce ) is a city and ''comune'' in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso. It is located in the high basin of the Biferno river, surrounded by Sa ...

References

External links

Lega Serie B profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alessandro, Danilo Italian footballers A.C. Cesena players F.C. Grosseto S.S.D. players Taranto F.C. 1927 players Virtus Francavilla Calcio players U.S.D. 1913 Seregno Calcio players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players Association football forwards Footballers from Rome 1988 births Living people