Alessandro Buongiorno
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_47_(cropped).jpg) Buongiorno with Torino in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Alessandro Buongiorno[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 June 1999 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Turin, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Napoli | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Torino | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2024 | Torino | 99 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | → Carpi (loan) | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | → Trapani (loan) | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Napoli | 52 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Italy U18 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Italy U19 | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Italy U20 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Italy U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Italy | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:21, 24 April 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 16 November 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Alessandro Buongiorno (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro ˌbwɔnˈdʒorno]; born 6 June 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Napoli and the Italy national team.
Club career
Early career
Buongiorno grew up playing in the Torino youth sector, with whom he won a Coppa Italia Primavera in 2017–18.[5] [6] On 14 February 2018, Buongiorno signed a professional contract with Torino, keeping him in the club until 2022.[7] He made his Serie A debut for Torino in a 4–1 win over Crotone on 4 April 2018, coming on as a substitute in the 82nd minute, but was forced off due to injury in the 88th minute.[8]
Loans to Carpi and Trapani
In the 2018–19 season, he was loaned to Carpi in Serie B coached by Fabrizio Castori.[9] He debuted on 25 September in a 0–1 loss against Perugia as a substitute for Enrico Pezzi in the 66th minute.[citation needed]
Buongiorno returned to Torino the following season, but did not make any appearance. On 11 January 2020, he joined Serie B club Trapani for the remainder of the season.[10] He played 13 matches, failing to avoid the relegation for the Sicilian club.
Torino
Returning to Turin, Buongiorno renewed his contract with the club until 2024.[11] On 17 December 2020, he made his debut as a starter in Serie A in the 3–1 defeat against Roma.[12] The following season, with the arrival of Ivan Jurić on Torino's bench, he began to play more regularly in the club's three-man defence, entering the team's rotations.[13]
Buongiorno became a regular starter during the 2022–23 Serie A, and served as club captain on 17 September 2022 in a 1–0 home defeat to Sassuolo.[14] On 3 May 2023, he scored his first league goal in a 2–0 victory against Sampdoria in Genoa.[15] At the end of the season, he renewed his contract until 2028.[16]
Napoli
On 13 July 2024, Buongiorno was sold to fellow Italian club Napoli for a reported transfer fee of €35 million plus €5 million in bonuses.[17] With Napoli he signed a five-year contract with minimum release clause of €70 million valid from 2027.[18]
International career
On 17 March 2023, Buongiorno received his first official call up to the Italy senior squad for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against England and Malta.[19] On 18 June, he debuted in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League third place play-off against the Netherlands, ending in a 3–2 victory for the Italians.[20]
Personal life
In February 2023, he obtained a three-year degree in Business Economics at the Pegaso Telematic University, presenting a thesis on Torino's marketing model.[21]
