| Intro | Italian footballer |
| Is |
Athlete Football player Association football player |
| From | Italy |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 30 April 1990, Spoleto |
| Age: | 30 years |
Stefano Giacomelli (born 30 April 1990) is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B club Vicenza.
Career
Foligno
Born in Spoleto, Umbria, Giacomelli started his career with Foligno. He made his league debut during 2006–07 Serie C2 season, and often made substitute appearances in the next season, but in Serie C1. In July 2008, he was loaned to F.C. Internazionale Milano Primavera, but only scored one goal for the senior youth team in regular season of Campionato Nazionale Primavera, ranked the 5th among the strikers (behind Aiman Napoli, Mattia Destro, Riccardo Bocalon and Mario Balotelli) and ranked equal 9th among the whole team. He also scored one of the two goals of Inter in the playoffs round. He also played as a left midfielder for the Primavera team.
On 1 July 2009 Giacomelli returned to Foligno and scored 13 league goals in 2009–10 season, which is the team joint-topscorer along with Matteo Cavagna, ahead Juan Martin Turchi. In the first half of 2010–11 season, he scored 5 goals as joint team top-scorer at that time, along with Daniele Sciaudone. However, Giacomelli left the club on 31 January, making him ranked as the equal third along with Diego Falcinelli, behind Sciaudone and Matteo Coresi (7 goals) in the whole season.
Pescara
On 31 January 2011 Giacomelli was sold to Pescara in a co-ownership deal in a 4-year contract, for €140,000 transfer fee. On 25 June 2011 Pescara acquired Giacomelli outright, for another €161,000, by submitting a higher tender bid (to Lega Serie B) against Foligno on the deadline day.
On 30 January 2012, after one full calendar year with Pescara, Giacomelli signed a loan deal with Ternana until the end of the 2011-2012 season.
Vicenza
In June 2012 he was sold to Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Vicenza Calcio for €2.3 million in a 4-year contract, but in terms of the value of the registration rights of Elvis Abbruscato who joined Pescara also for €2.3M.
On 29 August 2015 Giacomelli signed a new 3-year contract with Vicenza.
Representative teams
Giacomelli was capped for Italy under-20 Lega Pro representative team for Trofeo Dossena in June 2008, which lost to Grêmio youth team after penalty shootout. Since returned to Lega Pro, he also capped for the representative team at 2008–09 Mirop Cup, against Slovenia (twice) and 2009–11 International Challenge Trophy (against Malta, Romania and Belgium) He scored twice against Belgium.
He also won 2010 Trofeo Dossena with team, which he scored the winning goal against Internacional youth team. With the A team of under-20 level, he capped once against Germany at 2009–10 Four Nations Tournament, replacing Federico Carraro at the first half.
Honours
- Serie C2: 2007