Andrea Ferretti (footballer, born 1985)

Andrea Ferretti
Personal information
Date of birth	15 April 1985 (age 39)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Scandicci
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2007	Montemurlo
2007–2008	Canavese
2008	Sestri Levante
2008–2009	Biellese
2009–2010	Carrarese
2010	Carpi
2010–2012	Treviso
2012–2013	Alessandria
2013–2014	Tuttocuoio
2014	Poggibonsi
2014	RapalloBogliasco
2014–2015	Matelica
2015–2016	Ponsacco
2016–2018	Real Forte
2018	Viareggio 2014
2018–	Scandicci
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:24, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Andrea Ferretti (born 15 April 1985) is an Italian footballer who plays for Scandicci.

Ferretti had a journeyman career and only able to play in Italian fourth level (Serie C2, lowest level of fully professional league) or below. However Ferretti had a high goal scoring record in Serie D with an average of 0.53 goal per game (as of 2014) and much lower efficiency in Serie C2. Since Serie C2 was vanished in 2014, Ferretti only able to join Serie D clubs.

Biography[edit]

Between Serie C2 and D[edit]

Ferretti started his career at Serie D teams (Italian fifth division). Ferretti had played for Eccellenza Tuscany team Montemurlo in 2006–07 season (Italian sixth division).^[1]

In August 2007 he joined a professional team Canavese (Serie C2). However, he only played once and returned to Serie D in mid-season. He had a high goal scoring record in Serie D for Sestri Levante and Biellese (both from Serie D group A, Piedmont, Aosta Valley and Liguria region). He won the champion of Group A for Biellese and finished as the losing semi-finalists in the Scudetto Dilettanti playoffs. However Biellese withdrew from 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

Despite the withdrew of Biellese, Ferretti did return to Italian fourth division again, for Carrarese (the division had also renamed to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione). Ferretti only scored twice for the Tuscany team in the first six months.

Carpi[edit]

In January 2010 Ferretti returned to Serie D again, for Carpi. Ferretti scored 6 goals in group stage and 5 more in playoffs. Despite losing in the promotion playoffs (as Carpi only able to finish as the second in group stage), Carpi promoted back to professional league to fill the vacancies. Ferretti was the team joint-second-top-scorer (league+playoffs) (along with Enrico Gherardi, 11 goals), just one goal behind Stefano Menchini (12 goals, who scored nil in playoffs)^[2] Ferretti was the top-scorer of the team in the playoffs with 5 goals (ahead Gherardi with 4). Ferretti's 6 goals record in the league group stage also made him ranked the team fourth-scorer in regular season, behind Menchini (12 goals), Anthony Taugourdeau (9 goals) and Gherardi (7 goals), however Ferretti only spent less than 6 months to score the goals.

Treviso[edit]

In mid-2010 he left for another Serie D team Treviso. The team finished as the champion of the Group C and promoted (group C consist part of Veneto and Friuli – Venezia Giulia). Treviso failed to become Serie D overall champion (Scudetto Dilettanti) as the team was in the same group with Cuneo (eventually the champion) and failed to qualify to the semi-finals as best second place team of the group stage of the playoffs. Ferretti scored a career high of 20 goals (in regular season) as team top-scorer, one goal ahead Massimo Perna (who scored more in penalty) .

Ferretti remained in Treviso for 2011–12 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. Ferretti was the regular goalscorer of the team along with Perna.

Honours[edit]

Serie D (group stage): 2009 (Biellese), 2011 (Treviso)

References[edit]

^ "Visti Esecutività Su movimenti di Trasferimento (pagina 13)" (in Italian). Lega Serie C. 8 May 2008. Archived from the original (Require debug to 8bit encoding) on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
^ "MARCATORI 2009–10". Carpi FC 1909 (in Italian). June 2010. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

External links[edit]

Fullsoccer.eu at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 August 2013)
Football.it Profile (in Italian)
Andrea Ferretti at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)

[1] "Visti Esecutività Su movimenti di Trasferimento (pagina 13)" (in Italian). Lega Serie C. 8 May 2008. Archived from the original (Require debug to 8bit encoding) on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

[2] "MARCATORI 2009–10". Carpi FC 1909 (in Italian). June 2010. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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