Marco Branca

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Marco Branca
Personal information
Full name	Marco Branca
Date of birth	January 6, 1965 (1965-01-06) (age 43)
Place of birth	Grosseto, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
1981-1982 1982-1984	Grosseto Cagliari
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984-1986 1986-1987 1987-1988 1988-1990 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1994 1994-1995 1995 1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001	Cagliari Udinese Sampdoria Udinese Sampdoria Fiorentina Udinese Parma AS Roma Inter Middlesbrough FC Lucerne Monza	52 (4) 18 (2) 9 (1) 55 (13) 20 (5) 23 (5) 58 (22) 25 (7) 7 (2) 52 (23) 12 (9) 10 (2) 17 (7)
National team
1996	Italy Olympic Team	3 (4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Marco Branca (born 6 January 1965 in Grosseto) is an Italian former football striker who is currently head of the technical area of Serie A club Internazionale.

[edit] Career

Branca started his playing career in the then-amateur local team of his native city Grosseto, but was soon signed by Cagliari, where he made his professional debut. He then moved to Udinese, then to U.C. Sampdoria, and then again to Udinese. Following another season for Sampdoria, he signed first for Fiorentina and successively for Parma. In 1995 he is part of AS Roma, which later sold him in the winter transfer market to Inter in exchange with Marco Delvecchio. In his first season with the nerazzurri, Branca impressively scored 17 goals in 24 matches, but did not repeat in his next campaign with Inter and was successively sold to English side Middlesbrough, offering his contribution to its promotion in the FA Premier League. Marco scored 9 goals in 12 games for Middlesbrough including 2 on his league debut in a 3-1 victory against Sunderland, a hat-trick versus Bury and another 2 in the 6-0 thrashing of Swindon. He also scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the League Cup Semi Final Second Leg. He retired in 2001.

Since 2003, he has been part of Internazionale's management as their technical director.

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• Playing career

Persondata
NAME	Branca, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Branca, Marco
SHORT DESCRIPTION	footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1965-1-6
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grosseto, Italy
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH