Giuseppe "Beppe" Greco (born 6 August 1983) is an Italian former professional

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who played as a striker.

Career

Early career

Greco was born in

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, but moved to Pizzoli,

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at a young age. He began to play youth football at local club Amiternina. At age 16 he moved to the

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youth academy and then, for one year, he was enrolled in the

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

youth teams.

Professional career

He returned to

where he would start his senior career, later playing for

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. He made his

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debut on 3 May 2003, against

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, coming on as a 51st-minute substitute for Luigi Anaclerio in a 0–2 away loss at

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. He was signed by Sampdoria city rival

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in summer 2003, after former Como owner

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took over Genoa, but he was loaned back to Como and then to

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. He returned to Genoa in

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, and left on loan to

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of Serie B in January 2006. He helped Genoa to win promotion to Serie A in summer 2007, but he then left on loan to

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and

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. On 28 January 2010, Genoa loaned the forward to

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until the end of the season. After his return to Genoa they loaned him to Grosseto in Serie B in the summer of 2010 where he played 10 games and scored 1 goal. However, in early 2011 he was loaned out again to Modena also in Serie B where he scored 8 goals in 17 games. In January 2013, Greco moved to

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, with whom he won a promotion to

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. The following year he signed with

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, competing in

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. On 25 June 2015, he joined FeralpiSalò, signing a one-year contract. Halfway through the season, on 29 January 2016, he moved to

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, where he made his debut the following day and immediately proved to be decisive in a 4–0 win over Tuttocuoio. In the game, he scored two goals in the first five minutes as well as providing an assist.

Later career

Then followed seasons in lower-league football for teams in

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. On 9 June 2016, Greco moved to Castelvetro, a team from the

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recently promoted to

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. The following season he joined fifth-tier

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club Rosselli Mutina, before moving to Axys Zola from

Zola Predosa Zola Predosa (Bolognese dialect, Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italy, Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about west of Bologna. Twin Town — Sister City Zola Predosa is town twinning, ...

, newly promoted to Serie D, and in June 2019 he signed for Castellarano, competing in

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, the sixth tier of the Italian football pyramid. Short stints then followed Virtus Camposanto and Sanmichelese in 2020.

References

External links

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