Mauro Minelli
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Mauro Minelli is an Italian footballer who plays for Cremonese
U.S. Cremonese
Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated...

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Football career

Minelli started his career in Atalanta
Atalanta B.C.
Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...

, the most famous club near his born place He spent 2001–02 season at Lumezzane
A.C. Lumezzane
Associazione Calcio Lumezzane is an Italian association football club, based in Lumezzane, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1948. The club currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione....

 along with Roberto Previtali
Roberto Previtali
Roberto Previtali is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B side AlbinoLeffe.-Early career:Born in Trescore Balneario, the Province of Bergamo, Previtali started his professional career with Atalanta. He made his Serie A debut on 22 April 2001 against Perugia. He started that match and the...

. In January 2003, he was signed by Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
Hellas Verona Football Club is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto. The team's colours are yellow and blue and gialloblu is the team's most widely used nickname...

 in co-ownership deal
Co-ownership (football)
Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club...

, in exchange with Natale Gonnella
Natale Gonnella
Natale Gonnella is an Italian footballer who plays for Casale.Gonnella played more than 250 matches at Serie B.-Biography:...

. In June 2004, he was bought back by Atalanta but he was loaned to AlbinoLeffe
U.C. AlbinoLeffe
Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe is an Italian association football club based in Leffe and also representing the town of Albino, in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy. AlbinoLeffe plays its home games at the Atleti Azzurri d'Italia stadium, in the city of Bergamo, and its official colors are dark blue and...

 in July, re-joining (former) Atalanta team-mate Mauro Belotti
Mauro Belotti
Mauro Belotti is an Italian footballer who plays for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione side Rodengo Saiano.-Biography:Born in Trescore Balneario, the Province of Bergamo, Belotti started his career at hometown club Atalanta Bergamo and finished as 2001–02 Campionato Nazionale Primavera runner–up.Belotti...

, Joelson
José Joelson Inácio
José Joelson Inácio is a Brazilian footballer.-Biography:Born in Brazil, Joelson started his professional career at Italy along with his elder brother Piá. He finished as 2001–02 Campionato Nazionale Primavera runner–up with the under-20 youth team. In 2002-03 season, he left for Pavia on loan...

, Gabriele Perico
Gabriele Perico
Gabriele Perico is an Italian footballer. He currently plays for Cagliari.-Biography:Perico started his career at hometown club Atalanta. In 2003-04 season he left for Prato. In summer 2004, he was signed by Serie B side AlbinoLeffe from Prato along with Mauro Belotti and Alessandro Diamanti...

 and Previtali. In July 2005, AlbinoLeffe bought half of the contractual rights, but bought back by Atalanta again in June 2006.

This time Calcio Catania
Calcio Catania
Calcio Catania is an Italian football club founded in 1908 and based in Catania, Sicily. The club has spent much of its history in Serie B, gaining promotion to Italy's top league Serie A five times...

 bought half of its contractual rights in July 2006, where he played his first Serie A season since made his debut against ACF Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina, is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in 1926, Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian football for the majority of their existence; only four clubs have played in more Serie A...

 on 1 October 2006.

After failed to made any appearances in neither Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...

 or 2007–08 Serie A, he left on loan to Triestina
U.S. Triestina Calcio
Unione Sportiva Triestina is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.It is in the season 2010-11 from Serie B, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C and Serie D, the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.-History:The club was...

 in January 2008 for another Serie B season. The loan was extended in August.

In June 2009 he returned to Calcio Catania After the club acquired the full rights from Atalanta, but was immediately sold back into the Serie B with Sassuolo
U.S. Sassuolo Calcio
Unione Sportiva Sassuolo Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in Sassuolo, Emilia-Romagna.In the season 2010-11 it plays in Serie B.The club was founded in 1922....

 on 9 July 2009. He announced he would left the club in January 2011 in order to play more regularly, eventually he joined fellow Serie B team Frosinone
Frosinone Calcio
Frosinone Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in Frosinone, Lazio. The club was founded in 1928 and refounded in 1991, following cancellation by the Italian Football Federation.It in the season 2011-12 plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione/B....

 on 31 January, rejoining team-mate Gaetano Masucci.

After Frosinone relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione, he joined fellow Prima Divisione team Cremonese
U.S. Cremonese
Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated...

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