Federico Giampaolo

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Personal information
Federico Giampaolo
Full name	Federico Giampaolo
Date of birth	March 3, 1970 (1970-03-03) (age 38)
Place of birth	Teramo, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Cavese
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987–1988 1988–1993 1990–1991 1991–1992 1992–1993 1993–1994 1994–1997 1997–1998 1998–1999 1999–2005 2001–2002 2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–	Giulianova Juventus → Spezia (loan) → Bari (loan) → Verona (loan) Palermo Pescara Genoa Salernitana Pescara → Cosenza (loan) Ascoli Modena Crotone Cavese	027 0(4) 000 0(0) 031 0(4) 020 0(1) 029 0(5) 021 0(1) 101 (31) 037 (10) 025 0(3) 152 (33) 022 0(5) 000 0(0) 025 0(1) 024 0(5) 025 0(5)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Federico Giampaolo (born 3 March 1970 in Teramo) is an Italian footballer. He plays for Cavese at Serie C1.

Like his brother Marco, now a football head coach, started his career at Giulianova. He played his first professional season in 1987-88, made 27 Serie C2 appearances.

He then joined Juventus youth team. After age of 20, he was loaned to Spezia at Serie C1, Bari at Serie A and Verona at Serie B. In October 1993, he joined Palermo at Serie B, but in the next season he joined Serie B rival Pescara, where he played another 3 Serie B season, including 1996–97 season which scored 16 goals. In summer 1997, Genoa which failed to return to Serie A in the previous season, signed Giampaolo. He scored 10 goals but once again missed to promotion. He played 4 Serie B games at the start of 1998–99 season before joined Salernitana, newcomer of Seire A in October 1998. But Giampaolo Serie A career faced another short end due to Salernitana 1 point below relegation line. After played 2 games for Salernitana, he returned to Pescara, league rival of Salernitana. Pescara finished the least in 2000–01 season, and Giampaolo was loaned to Cosenza at Seire B before returned to Pescara at 2002–03 season, helped the club promoted back to Serie B. In July 2005 he changed to play for Ascoli, later obtained Serie A promotion by 2006 Italian football scandal. But he failed to play any games in his last Serie A season, due to he moved to Modena F.C. at Serie B on 31 August, before the start of Serie A. In July 2006, he joined another Serie B club Crotone. Crotone finished the second least in the league, and Giampaolo found his place at Cavese of Serie C1 in the next season.