Cesare Bovo

Cesare Bovo (born 14 January 1983 in Rome) is an Italy football (soccer) defender (football), who currently plays for U.S. Città di Palermo.

Career

Bovo grew up playing in the renowned A.S. Roma youth system, and was sold on a co-ownership bid to Serie B club U.S. Lecce in the 2002/2003 season. Lecce promoted to Serie A and gave Bovo the opportunity to make his Serie A début in 2003. On 2004, Bovo was fully signed by AS Roma, who shared his ownership with U.S. Città di Palermo; both teams agreed to loan him to Parma F.C, where Bovo played as a regular for the whole season, showing good potential. In 2005, he finally returned to AS Roma, where he made 22 appearances with no goals.

In 2006, his co-ownership between Palermo and AS Roma was resolved in favour of the Sicilian club, and Bovo moved to Palermo. However, during the summer training phase, Bovo suffered a foot injury that forced him away from the pitches for a long time, and made only one league appearance for Palermo before being loaned to Torino F.C on January 2007.

On February 24, 2007 he played his first Serie A match for Torino against A.C. ChievoVerona

He returned to Palermo from his loan deal on June 2007, and was subsequently sold to Genoa C.F.C. on July 10 in a co-ownership deal. He made a second comeback to Palermo on June 2008, as his co-ownership was again solved in favour of the rosanero. He is expected to perform as a regular with the Sicilian club in the upcoming 2008–09 season.

National team

Bovo was on the squad of Italy national under-21 football team that won UEFA U-21 Championship 2004 European Under-21 Football Championship and 2004 Summer Olympics Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also part of the Italian squad for the UEFA U-21 Championship 2006.