Duccio Degli Innocenti
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| Full name | Duccio Degli Innocenti[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 28 April 2003[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevarchi, Italy[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Empoli | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Empoli | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Empoli | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → Lecco (loan) | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | → Spezia (loan) | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Italy U17 | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Italy U18 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Italy U19 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Italy U20 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 2 March 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 3 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Duccio Degli Innocenti (born 28 April 2003) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie B club Empoli.
Degli Innocenti was raised in the youth system of Empoli. He represented the club in the 2021–22 UEFA Youth League.[3]
Degli Innocenti made his debut for the senior squad of Empoli on 6 August 2022 in a Coppa Italia game against SPAL.[4] He made his Serie A debut on 21 October 2022 against Juventus.[5]
International career
Degli Innocenti was first called up to represent his country for Under-17 squad friendlies in September 2019.[8] He then played in Under-17 Euro qualifiers before the tournament was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He then represented Italy at the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, where Italy reached the semi-finals: Degli Innocenti made one appearance in a group stage game.[9]
In May 2023, he was included by head coach Carmine Nunziata in the Italian squad that took part in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina,[10] where the Azzurrini finished runners-up after losing to Uruguay in the final match.[11][12]
