Raoul Petretta

Raoul Petretta
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-03-24) 24 March 1997
Place of birth Rheinfelden, Germany
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 FC Basel
Number 28
Youth career
0000—2005 SC Rheinfelden 03
2005—2015 Basel U21
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015—2017 Basel U21 41 (1)
2017— Basel 14 (1)
National team‡
2018– Italy U21 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 February 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 May 2018

Raoul Petretta (born 24 March 1997) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.

Club career

Born in Rheinfelden, Germany, Petretta started his youth football with Basel in 2005. He played in their U-15, U-16, U-17 and U-18 teams and in July 2015 he moved to their U-21 team. He played 24 games, scoring one goal, in his first season and played 14 games during the first half of the next season, before he signed a three and a half year professional contract on 16 February 2017 and joined their first team.[1]

He played his debut in their first team on 2 April 2017 in St. Jakob-Park during the 4–0 home win against Lugano. Under trainer Urs Fischer Petretta played 5 League games and won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the 2016–17 Super League season. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total.[2] They also won the Swiss Cup for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the clubs history.[3]

International career

On 25 May 2018 he made his debut with the Italy U21 team in a friendly match lost 3–2 against Portugal.

Honours

Basel

References

  1. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Raoul Petretta unterschreibt Profivertrag beim FCB". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  2. ↑ Marti, Casper (2017). "Der Saisonabschluss im Zeitraffer". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  3. ↑ "Swiss football: FC Basel wins 3-0 over Sion in Geneva; police extra vigilant after game". allaboutgeneva.com. 25 May 2017.
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