Luca Castellazzi

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Luca Castellazzi

Full name	Luca Castellazzi
Date of birth	July 19, 1975 (1975-07-19) (age 32)
Place of birth	Gorgonzola, Italy
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Sampdoria
Number	1
Youth clubs
1992-1994	Monza
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1999 1999-2005 2002 2003 2005-	Varese Monza Padova Pescara Brescia → Reggina (loan) → Catania (loan) Sampdoria	18 (0) 32 (0) 57 (0) 3 (0) 106 (0) 14 (0) 18 (0) 29 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 8, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Luca Castellazzi (born 19 July 1975 in Gorgonzola, Province of Milan) is an Italian football goalkeeper. He currently plays for U.C. Sampdoria of Italian Serie A.

[edit] Football career

He started his career at Monza of Province of Milan. He then spent time on Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2 before joined Brescia Calcio, and followed Brescia promoted to Serie A on summer 2000. He made his Serie A debut on 21 January 2001, against Vicenza Calcio. After loaned to Reggina and Catania on 2002-03 season, he finally became regular starter on 2005-06 season, which he played all 38 Serie A games.

After Brescia relegated to Serie B on summer 2005, he joined U.C. Sampdoria on free transfer, signed 2 year deal. He received no.1 shirt from Luigi Turci. ^[1] The first season he was the backup of Francesco Antonioli, which Castellazzi played 3 games that Antonioli missed.

In the second season, he finally earned regular place, except dropped between November to December, and March to April, given the start place to Gianluca Berti.

In January 2008, he signed a contract extension again, last until summer 2010.