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{{short description|Italian football coach and former player (born 1977)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
 | name                 = Luca Mezzano
 | fullname             = Luca Antonino Mezzano
 | height               = {{Height|m=1.81|precision=0}}
 | birth_date           = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1977|8|1}}
 | birth_place          = [[Turin]], Italy
 | currentclub          = [[Torino FC|Torino]] (youth coach)
 | clubnumber           = 
 | position             = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
 | years1   = 1995–1997 | caps1   = 43  | goals1   = 3  | clubs1   = [[Torino FC|Torino]]
 | years2   = 1997–2001 | caps2   = 4   | goals2   = 0  | clubs2   = [[FC Internazionale Milano|Internazionale]]
 | years3   = 1999      | caps3   = 8   | goals3   = 0  | clubs3   = → [[AC Perugia Calcio|Perugia]] (loan)
 | years4   = 1999      | caps4   = 4   | goals4   = 0  | clubs4   = → [[Hellas Verona FC|Verona]] (loan)
 | years5   = 2000      | caps5   = 14  | goals5   = 0  | clubs5   = → [[Brescia Calcio|Brescia]] (loan)
 | years6   = 2000      | caps6   = 1   | goals6   = 0  | clubs6   = → [[AC ChievoVerona|Chievo]] (loan)
 | years7   = 2001      | caps7   = 11  | goals7   = 0  | clubs7   = → [[Reggina Calcio|Reggina]] (loan)
 | years8   = 2001–2005 | caps8   = 77  | goals8   = 4  | clubs8   = [[Torino FC|Torino]]
 | years9   = 2005–2006 | caps9   = 36  | goals9   = 1  | clubs9   = [[Bologna FC 1909|Bologna]]
 | years10  = 2007–2009 | caps10  = 38  | goals10  = 0  | clubs10  = [[Treviso FBC 1993|Treviso]]
 | years11  = 2007–2008 | caps11  = 10  | goals11  = 0  | clubs11  = → [[US Triestina Calcio|Triestina]] (loan)
 | years12  = 2009–2010 | caps12  = 5   | goals12  = 0  | clubs12  = [[SS Arezzo|Arezzo]]
 | nationalyears1 = 1997–2000 | nationalcaps1 = 19 | nationalgoals1 = 1 | nationalteam1 = [[Italy national under-21 football team|Italy U21]]
}}
'''Luca Antonino Mezzano''' (born 1 August 1977) is an Italian [[Association football|football]] coach and former player who played as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]]. He is youth coach of [[Torino FC|Torino]] (responsible for the ''Esordienti'' – 13-year-old team).

==Club career==
Born in [[Turin]], Mezzano started his career at hometown club [[Torino FC|Torino]], and joined [[FC Internazionale Milano|Internazionale]] in 1997. Despite being contracted for four seasons with the ''Nerazzurri'', he only made ten appearances with the club across al competitions and was mostly sent on loan to other teams in Serie A and Serie B. He returned to Torino in 2001, spending four seasons with the club before playing with [[Bologna FC 1909|Bologna]], [[Treviso FBC 1993|Treviso]] and [[US Triestina Calcio|Triestina]] in Serie B. He retired in 2010, aged 33, after a spell at [[SS Arezzo|Arezzo]] in Italy's third division.

He played 71 [[Serie A]] games, making his debut against [[AS Roma]], on 25 February 1996 and won UEFA Cup in 1997-98 when playing with Inter.

==International career==
With the [[Italy national under-21 football team|Italy youth team]], he won the [[2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship]] and was a quarter-finalist at the [[Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Summer Olympics]].

==External links==
*{{in lang|it}} [http://www.figc.it/nazionali/DettaglioConvocato?codiceConvocato=1534 National Teams stats at FIGC]
*http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p5779.shtml

{{Italy men's football squad 2000 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
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[[Category:AC ChievoVerona players]]
[[Category:AS Reggina 1914 players]]
[[Category:Bologna FC 1909 players]]
[[Category:Treviso FBC 1993 players]]
[[Category:US Triestina Calcio 1918 players]]
[[Category:SS Arezzo players]]
[[Category:UEFA Europa League–winning players]]
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[[Category:Footballers from Turin]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian sportsmen]]


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