Jonatan Alberto Alessandro (born 5 January 1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Italian

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 Dilettanti ...

club Vastese.

Biography

Ternana

Born in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

, capital of Argentina, Alessandro moved to Italy at young age. He was a youth product of

Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A (in the 1972–73 and 1974–75 seas ...

. He made his debut in

2006–07 Serie C1 The 2006–07 Serie C1 was the twenty-ninth edition of Serie C1, the third highest league in the Italian football league system. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from 3 September 2006, to 13 May 2007, and the playoff pha ...

. In January 2007, he was loaned to Serie C2 side Igea Virtus – Barcellona along with Alessandro Marotta. On 31 August 2007 he was signed by

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 ...

. On 30 January 2009 Alessandro left for

Cisco Roma Atletico Roma Football Club was an Italian football club based in Rome, Italy. The club was founded as Nuova Tor Sapienza Calcio, which was renamed to Cisco Tor Sapienza in 1998. Under several merger, the club was subsequent known as A.S. Cis ...

. Alessandro became a regular member for Ternana from 2009 to 2011, despite mainly as substitute (27 as substitutes out of 35 appearances). In 2011, he left for Serie D club Sporting Terni (top level of amateur football and Italian fifth level until 2014). The club used different stadium despite in the same city with Ternana.

Chieti

On 28 January 2012 Alessandro returned to professional football for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (ex–Serie C2) club

Chieti Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...

. Alessandro was the centre forward in 4-2-3-1 formation in the first 3 matches of promotion playoffs. Alessandro returned to play his usual position in the midfield in the last game, with Giuseppe Lacarra as forward. He renewed the contract on 22 July.

Cosenza

On 28 July 2013 Alessandro was signed by Cosenza. The club was among 7 additional teams that admitted to the fourth division 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 ...

to fill the vacancies on 5 August. However it also saw at the end of 2013–14 season the two divisions of Lega Pro would be merged, as well as the reduction of 69 teams to 60 teams, thus 18 teams instead of 9 teams would be relegated. As of round 32 the club was the runner-up, and had been mathematically promoted to

Serie C 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 ...

. Alessandro scored 5 goals as the fourth scorer of the team, behind Gianluca De Angelis, Manolo Mosciaro and Elio Calderini.

Serie D

In July 2020 Alessandro signed for

Latina Latina or Latinas most often refers to: * Latinas, a demographic group in the United States * Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America. *Latin Americans Latina and Latinas may also refer ...

where he played a big part in Latina getting promoted back to the

. In the 2020–21 season he scored 9 goals in 32 matches as

finished second in the

Girone G. On 11 August 2021, he joined Vastese in

Footnotes

References

External links

AIC profile (data by football.it)
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alessandro, Jonatan 1987 births Footballers from Buenos Aires Living people Argentine footballers Ternana Calcio players U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players Atletico Roma F.C. players S.S. Chieti Calcio players Cosenza Calcio players Avezzano Calcio players Latina Calcio 1932 players Vastese Calcio 1902 players Serie C players Serie D players Association football forwards Argentine expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy