Emilio Saba
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Emilio Esteban Saba Fassioli | ||
| Date of birth | 26 March 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Lima, Peru | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Right back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team |
Sport Boys (on loan from Melgar) | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Esther Grande | |||
| 2018 | Sport Boys | ||
| 2018 | Alianza Lima | ||
| 2019 | Melgar | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020– | Melgar | 4 | (0) |
| 2021 | → Deportivo Municipal (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2022 | → UTC Cajamarca (loan) | 17 | (0) |
| 2023 | → ADT (loan) | 28 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Carlos A. Mannucci (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2025– | → Sport Boys (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023–2024 | Peru U23 | 8 | (1) |
| 2025– | Palestine | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10:27, 18 October 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 09:34, 19 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
Emilio Esteban Saba Fassioli (born 26 March 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back for Peruvian Primera División club Sport Boys, on loan from Melgar. Born in Peru, he plays for the Palestine national team.
He has played 90 games in the Peruvian top-flight for Melgar, Deportivo Municipal, UTC Cajamarca, ADT, Carlos A. Mannucci and Sport Boys.
Early career
Born in Lima, Saba played for the youth team of Esther Grande. He played on the right side of midfield or on the wing, scoring 28 times in 2017, and occasionally played in age groups one or two years older than his age. In 2018, he also played for Sport Boys as part of an agreement between the two clubs, and joined Alianza Lima in August.[1]
In October 2018, Saba went on trial for two weeks at Werder Bremen of the German Bundesliga. He trained with players including Peruvian veteran Claudio Pizarro.[1]
Melgar
When Esther Grande manager Marco Valencia moved to Melgar in 2019, he signed Saba, who helped the reserve team to third place that year.[2] When the Torneo de Promoción y Reserva was suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saba was added to the first team and made his professional debut in the Peruvian Primera División on 27 August in a 2–0 home loss to Carlos Stein, playing the last 25 minutes as a substitute for Diego Manicero.[3]
In March 2021, Saba was loaned to Deportivo Municipal.[4] For the following two years he also moved temporarily, respectively to UTC Cajamarca and ADT; with the latter, he played 28 games in 2023 as they qualified for the Copa Sudamericana for the first time.[5]
Saba was linked with a return to Alianza for 2023, but opted to go on loan again, this time to Carlos A. Mannucci.[5]