Simone Pontiggia (born 27 April 1993) is an
Italian footballer who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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for
Sondrio
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.
Club career
Milan
Born in Lissone, the Province of Monza–Brianza (historically part of Milan Province), Lombardy, Pontiggia started his career at
A.C. Milan. He was part of the under-18 youth team (or called reserve B) in 2010–11 season, but also received call-up to the reserve A for the playoffs round. Previously he was part of Milan's under-17 team in 2009–10 season and was the joint-top-scorer of Milan's under-15 team in 2007–08 playoffs round with 2 goals (along with
Alessandro De Respinis).
AlbinoLeffe
In August 2011 he was transferred to another Lombard club
AlbinoLeffe along with
Marvin Maietti
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Club career
Born in Crema, Lombardy region, Maietti started his career at Lombard club A.C. Milan. In 2011, he w ...
and Matteo Doni. He won 2012
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with the reserve in June 2012. In
2012–13 season he made his professional debut, partially due to the club lack of new signing due to relegatation from Serie B and heavy point penalty in 2012–13 season due to involvement in
2011 Italian football scandal. However it still had heavy competition between the former youth products:
Andrea Belotti
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Belotti started his career with AlbinoLeffe. He was later signed by Palermo, where he won a Se ...
,
Massimiliano Pesenti
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Career
Born in Treviglio, the Province of Bergamo, Pesenti started his career at AlbinoLeffe. In January 2007 he left for S ...
and
Manuel Personè
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Career
In June 2019, Personé joined Tritium Calcio 1908
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(left in January 2013).
International career
representative teams
His performances at the start of 2012–13 season made him earned a call-up from the
Lega Pro under-20 representative team (all born 1992 or after), and scored in his debut against
Croatia U20 in October 2012, just 6 minute after he substituted
Francesco Agnello
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. In December 2012 he received another call-up from Lega Pro, but from "U19 team" (despite the team consist of players born 1993 or after, the
U19 A team in fact in born 1994 season), for a triangular tournament between U19 A team and
Serie D representative team. However he withdrew.
References
External links
Football.it Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pontiggia, Simone
1993 births
Living people
People from Lissone
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
AC Milan players
UC AlbinoLeffe players
Casertana FC players
AC Monza players
Serie C players
Serie D players
Footballers from the Province of Monza e Brianza