Giacomo Corona
Italian football player (born 2002)
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Giacomo Corona (born 24 February 2004) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B club Palermo.
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Corona playing for Palermo in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 24 February 2004[1][2] | ||
| Place of birth | Palermo, Italy[2] | ||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Palermo | ||
| Number | 31 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2012 | Louis Ribolla | ||
| 2012–2024 | Palermo | ||
| 2022–2023 | → Torino (loan) | ||
| 2023–2024 | → Empoli (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021– | Palermo | 12 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | → Empoli (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2024–2025 | → Pontedera (loan) | 35 | (10) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 28 February 2026 | |||
Club career
A Palermo youth product, Corona made his senior debut for the Rosanero in 2021 during a Serie C league game against Turris.[3] He was successively loaned out to Torino in August 2021, playing exclusively for the Under-19 team before heading back to Palermo by the end of the season.[4]
In August 2023, Corona left Palermo again, this time to join Empoli on another loan deal.[5] He almost exclusively played for the Under-19 team, except for a lone four-minute appearance in a Serie A league game against Hellas Verona on 15 January 2024.[6]
In August 2024, after returning from his Empoli loan, Corona agreed a contract extension until 30 June 2027 with Palermo, and was successively loaned out to Serie C club Pontedera.[7] With Pontedera, Corona finally succeeded in playing regularly and making it to the spotlight, amassing a total ten goals in the regular season plus another one in the promotion playoffs.[8]
After his positive campaign at Pontedera, Palermo, under new head coach Filippo Inzaghi, called back the player to join the pre-season training camp, scoring four goals in the first friendly game.[9]
Personal life
He is the son of former Serie A striker Giorgio Corona.[2]