Wladimiro Falcone
Falcone in 2023 with Lecce
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-04-12) 12 April 1995
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Lecce
Number 30
Youth career
0000–2014 Sampdoria
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2023 Sampdoria 12 (0)
2014–2015 → Como (loan) 9 (0)
2015–2016 → Savona (loan) 29 (0)
2016–2017 → Livorno (loan) 1 (0)
2017 → Bassano Virtus (loan) 0 (0)
2018 → Gavorrano (loan) 18 (0)
2018–2019 → Lucchese (loan) 41 (0)
2020–2021 → Cosenza (loan) 36 (0)
2022–2023 → Lecce (loan) 38 (0)
2023– Lecce 2 (0)
International career‡
2012–2013 Italy U18[2] 7 (0)
2013–2014 Italy U19[2] 1 (0)
2015–2016 Italy U20[2] 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 August 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 March 2018

Wladimiro Falcone (born 12 April 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Lecce.

Club career

Sampdoria

Born in Rome, Falcone is a youth product of Ligurian club Sampdoria. He was the first choice of their reserve team from 2012 to 2014,[3] while also appearing as unused bench for the first team.

Loans

On 25 July 2014, Falcone was signed by Lega Pro club Como in a temporary deal.[4][5] The club won promotion to Serie B in 2015 as the promotion playoffs winner.

On 20 July 2015, he was signed by another third-level club, Savona, in a temporary deal.[6][7]

On 9 July 2016, he left Samp once again for Livorno in another temporary deal.[8] The club was relegated from Serie B to Lega Pro in 2016. On 31 January 2017, he returned to Sampdoria.

In July 2017, he joined Bassano on loan.[9] But in January 2018, he left for Gavorrano.[10] Later he went to Lucchese on loan.[11]

Return and loan to Cosenza

On 2019 he came back to Sampdoria, and he made his debut for the club on 29 July 2020 in a 1–4 loss against Milan.[12]

On 29 August 2020, he extended his contract for Sampdoria until 2024; on the same day he went to Cosenza on a season loan.[13][14]

During the whole 2020-21 season, Falcone established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper of the Silani and repeatedly stole the scene thanks to his performances,[15] although he couldn't help Cosenza avoid relegation, as a 9-point gap between them and Ascoli allowed the latter team to stay in the second tier without playing a relegation play-out.[16]

Loan to Lecce

On 17 July 2022, Falcone joined recently-promoted to Serie A side Lecce on a season-long loan.[17] That season, he played all available minutes in the league, helping Lecce avoid relegation to Serie B.[18]

Lecce

On 27 July 2023, Lecce announced the permanent signing of Falcone on a five-year contract,[19] for a reported fee of €4 million.[20]

International career

In 2014, Falcone was a second-choice keeper for Italy's U-19 side during the qualifiers for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, behind Pierluigi Gollini.

On 17 March 2023, Falcone received his first official callup to the senior Italy national team for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against England and Malta.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Sampdoria profile (in Italian)
  2. 1 2 3 FIGC (in Italian)
  3. ↑ Fullsoccer (in Italian)
  4. ↑ "Falcone e Rolando passano in prestito al Calcio Como" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. Sampdoria. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Wladimiro Falcone: nuova forza tra i pali del Como" (Press release) (in Italian). Calcio Como. 25 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Wladimiro Falcone al Savona a titolo temporaneo" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. Sampdoria. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Tre volti nuovi per il Savona Fbc" (Press release) (in Italian). Savona F.B.C. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Falcone passa al Livorno a titolo temporaneo" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. Sampdoria. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ufficiale: arriva Falcone dall'U.C. Sampdoria" (Press release) (in Italian). Bassano Virtus 55 S.T. 4 July 2017. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Ufficiale : Arriva in rossoblu Falcone" (Press release) (in Italian). U.S. Gavorrano. 13 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Dalla Sampdoria arriva in prestito il portiere Falcone" (Press release) (in Italian). S.S.D. Lucchese 1905. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  12. ↑ "Sampdoria-Milan 1-4: doppio Ibrahimovic, sesto posto blindato" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  13. ↑ "Falcone passa al Cosenza a titolo temporaneo" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. Sampdoria. 29 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  14. ↑ "Wladimiro Falcone è il nuovo portiere dei lupi" (Press release) (in Italian). Calcio Cosenza. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  15. ↑ Siotto, Paolo (16 March 2021). "Chi è Wladimiro Falcone, portiere per il futuro della Sampdoria". SerieBnews.com (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  16. ↑ Ponti, Mariacristina (12 May 2021). "Calciomercato, Falcone lascia Cosenza | È lui l'erede in Serie A". SerieBnews.com (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  17. ↑ "FALCONE E ASKILDSEN IN GIALLOROSSO" (in Italian). Lecce. 17 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  18. ↑ "Italy - W. Falcone - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  19. ↑ "Wladimiro Falcone è un calciatore del Lecce" [Wladimiro Falcone is a Lecce footballer]. U.S. Lecce (in Italian). 27 July 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  20. ↑ "UFFICIALE: Wladimiro Falcone è un calciatore del Lecce" [OFFICIAL: Wladimiro Falcone is a Lecce footballer]. PianetaLecce. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  21. ↑ "Nazionale, Mancini chiama l'argentino Retegui. Prima anche Falcone e Buongiorno" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
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