Luca Franchini is an Italian

Italy

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 player. He currently plays for FC Südtirol.

Career

Franchini started his career at Internazionale

F.C. Internazionale Milano

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 at age of 8. He started to play as a left back and turned to centre back in 2001, as the team had Giovanni Pasquale

Giovanni Pasquale

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. He won the Primavera League title in 2002. In 2002-03 season, he succeed Nicola Beati

Nicola Beati

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 as Primavera team captain which Beati was promoted to first team. Franchini led the team entered the League playoffs final, but lost to Lecce

U.S. Lecce

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 in 2-3.

He also made 2 official appearances for Inter first team in 2002-03 season, one at Serie A, one at Coppa Italia.

In summer 2003, he graduated from youth team and loaned to Padova

Calcio Padova

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 of Serie C1.

In August 2004, he was on loan to Ascoli

Ascoli Calcio 1898

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 along with Isah Eliakwu

Isah Eliakwu

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.

Due to fail to enter the first team, in January 2005, he was on loan to Vis Pesaro 1898

Vis Pesaro 1898

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, but changed to Ancona

A.C. Ancona

Associazione Calcio Ancona was a professional Italian football club, based in Ancona, Marche. It was founded in 1905 as Unione Sportiva Anconitana, changing its name to Ancona Calcio 1905 in 1981 and being refounded in 2004 with its last denomination....

 of Serie C2 on 31 January 2005, the last day of the transfer window.

In summer 2005, he was sold to Pro Patria of Serie C1. A year later, Mantova

A.C. Mantova

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 of Serie B bought him from Pro Patria and signed a 3-year contract In the first season he just played 9 starts in 10 league appearances. In the next season, he played more regular with 19 starts.

He joined Gallipoli Calcio

Gallipoli Calcio

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 on August 2009. On 26 January 2011 signed with FC Südtirol.

External links

• Inter Archive
• http://aic.football.it/scheda/12827/franchini-luca.htm
• Profile at FIGC
• http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/serie_b_2007/giocatori/franchini_luc.shtml
• http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/serie_b/2008_nw/giocatori/73017.shtml