Simone Solinas (born 3 March 1996) is an Italian

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who plays for

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

as a

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Club career

Born in

Sassari Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...

, Solinas began his career on

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

's youth categories, and was promoted to main squad for 2013–14 season, receiving the no. 39 jersey. On 19 January 2014 Solinas made his professional debut, coming on as a late substitute in a 0–1 loss at

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. On 4 August 2015, he joined Unione Triestina.

References

External links

Cagliari official profile
* 1996 births Living people Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Cagliari Calcio players Serie A players Sportspeople from Sassari Footballers from the Province of Sassari {{Italy-footy-forward-1990s-stub