Raoul Petretta
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 24 March 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Rheinfelden, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Kasımpaşa | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2005 | SC Rheinfelden 03 | ||
| 2005–2015 | Basel U21 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2017 | Basel U21 | 41 | (1) |
| 2017–2022 | Basel | 109 | (7) |
| 2022– | Kasımpaşa | 4 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2018 | Italy U21 | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 October 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 May 2018 | |||
Raoul Petretta (born 24 March 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Turkish club Kasımpaşa. Born in Germany, he has represented Italy at youth level.
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 club's history.[3]
Under trainer Marcel Koller Basel won the Swiss Cup in the 2018–19 season. In the first round Basel beat FC Montlingen 3–0, in the second round Echallens Région 7–2 and in the round of 16 Winterthur 1–0. In the quarter finals Sion were defeated 4–2 after extra time and in the semi finals Zürich were defeated 3–1. All these games were played away from home. The final was held on the 19 May 2019 in the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Bern against Thun. Striker Albian Ajeti scored the first goal, Fabian Frei the second for Basel, then Dejan Sorgić netted a goal for Thun, but the end result was 2–1 for Basel.[4] Petretta played in three cup games.
At the end of their 2021–22 season, Petretta himself decided not to renew his contract with the club and he became free agent. Petretta had started his youth football with Basel in 2005. He played in all their U-teams and advanced to their first team in 2017. Here, between the years 2017 and 2022 he played a total of 199 games for Basel scoring a total of 11 goals. 109 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 13 in the Swiss Cup, 30 in the UEFA competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League and 47 were friendly games. He scored 7 goals in the domestic league, 1 in the Cup, 2 in Europa and the other was scored during the test games.[5]
In July 2022, Petretta signed with Kasımpaşa in Turkey.[6]
International career
Petretta was born in Rheinfelden, Germany, from parents from Volturara Irpina, Avellino, Italy.
On 25 May 2018, he made his debut with the Italy U21 team in a friendly match lost 3–2 against Portugal.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 25 August 2021
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Basel | 2016–17 | Swiss Super League | 5 | 1 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 25 | 1 | |||
| 2018–19 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 29 | 1 | |||
| 2019–20 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 1 | — | 46 | 4 | |||
| 2020–21 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 1 | ||||
| 2021–22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 8 | 2 | |||
| Total | 99 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 26 | 1 | — | 138 | 9 | |||
| Career total | 99 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 9 | ||
Honours
Basel
- Swiss Super League: 2016–17
- Swiss Cup winner: 2016–17 2018–19
External links
References
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Raoul Petretta unterschreibt Profivertrag beim FCB". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
- ^ Marti, Casper (2017). "Der Saisonabschluss im Zeitraffer". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Swiss football: FC Basel wins 3-0 over Sion in Geneva; police extra vigilant after game". allaboutgeneva.com. 25 May 2017.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Thun 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (2022). "Raoul Petretta - FCB statistics". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ "Rauol Petretta in Kasımpaşa" (in Turkish). Kasımpaşa. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr)
- Articles with short description
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Use dmy dates from February 2019
- Articles without Wikidata item
- 1997 births
- People from Rheinfelden (Baden)
- Sportspeople from Freiburg (region)
- Footballers from Baden-Württemberg
- German people of Italian descent
- Living people
- German footballers
- Italian footballers
- Italy under-21 international footballers
- Association football defenders
- FC Basel players
- Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers
- Swiss Promotion League players
- Swiss Super League players
- Süper Lig players
- Italian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate footballers in Turkey
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey