Sebastiano Esposito

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Sebastiano Esposito
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-07-02) 2 July 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
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Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Bari
(on loan from Inter Milan)
Number 9
Youth career
2011–2014 Brescia
2014–2019 Internazionale
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019– Inter Milan 7 (1)
2020 → SPAL (loan) 10 (1)
2021 → Venezia (loan) 19 (2)
2021–2022 → Basel (loan) 23 (6)
2022–2023 → Anderlecht (loan) 14 (1)
2023– → Bari (loan) 3 (2)
International career‡
2017–2018 Italy U16 12 (8)
2018–2019 Italy U17 20 (14)
2019 Italy U18 2 (1)
2019 Italy U19 3 (2)
2022 Italy U20 2 (0)
2020– Italy U21 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 September 2022

Sebastiano Esposito (Italian pronunciation: [eˈspɔːzito]; born 2 July 2002) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie C Group C club Bari, on loan from Inter Milan.

Club career

Inter Milan

Esposito made his professional debut for Inter Milan at 16 years old, on 14 March 2019, in the second leg of Europa League match against Eintracht Frankfurt, coming in as a substitute for Borja Valero in the 73rd minute. He became the youngest player ever to feature in a European competition match for the club.

The following season, on 23 October 2019 he made his debut in Champions League replacing Romelu Lukaku in the group stage match against Borussia Dortmund, and becoming the first player born in 2002 and the second youngest ever for the club to feature in a Champions League/European Cup match, after Giuseppe Bergomi.[1][2][3] On 26 October he made his Serie A debut, aged 17, coming as a substitute for Lautaro Martínez in a home match against Parma in San Siro. On 21 December 2019, Esposito scored his first goal for Inter, on his full debut, from a penalty in a 4–0 win at home against Genoa. On 18 June 2020, he was nominated for the Golden Boy award.

On 25 September 2020 he joined SPAL on loan.[4]

On 15 January 2021, Esposito joined Venezia on loan. [5]

2021–22 season: Loan to FC Basel

On 13 July 2021, he was loaned to Swiss club FC Basel, with an option to buy.[6] Basel confirmed the loan deal on the same day and Esposito joined Basel's first team for their 2021–22 season under head coach Patrick Rahmen.[7] After playing in one test game Esposito played his debut for his new club in the second qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League, a home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 22 July 2021 as Basel won 3–0 against Partizani Tirana.[8] Three days later, on 25 July, Esposito made his Swiss Super League debut for Basel against Grasshoppers and scored his first goal for the club in the same game as they recorded 2–0 victory.[9]

At the end of the season Basel decided not to pull the purchase option. During his time with the club, Esposito played a total of 39 games for Basel scoring a total of 9 goals. 23 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, one in the Swiss Cup, ten in the UEFA Europa Conference League and five were friendly games. He scored 6 goals in the domestic league, one in the Conference League and the other two were scored during the test games.[10]

2022–23 season: Loans to Anderlecht and Bari

On 4 July 2022, Esposito joined Belgian club Anderlecht on loan.[11] On 31 January 2023, Esposito moved on a new loan to Bari in Serie B.[12]

International career

He took part in the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, reaching the final of the tournament.

He made his debut with the Italy U21 on 3 September 2020, in a friendly match won 2–1 against Slovenia.

Personal life

He is the younger brother of midfielder Salvatore Esposito.[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 19 May 2022[14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Internazionale 2018–19 Serie A 0 0 0 0 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 1 0
2019–20 7 1 2 0 5[lower-alpha 2] 0 14 1
Total 7 1 2 0 6 0 15 1
SPAL (loan) 2020–21 Serie B 10 1 3 0 — 13 1
Venezia (loan) 2020–21 Serie B 19 2 0 0 — 19 2
Basel (loan) 2021–22 Swiss Super League 23 6 1 0 10[lower-alpha 3] 1 34 7
Career total 57 8 6 0 16 1 81 11
  1. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  2. ↑ Three appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

Honours

Inter Milan

Italy U17

Individual

References

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  14. ↑ Sebastiano Esposito at Soccerway. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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External links

  • Sebastiano Esposito at TuttoCalciatori.net Script error: No such module "In lang".
  • Sebastiano Esposito at SoccerwayLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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