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Gianluca Lapadu
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Early career
Born in Turin, Piedmont, from an Apulian father and a Peruvian mother,Lapadula started his career with Juventus Football Club from 1996 to 2004. Then he played in RivoliCollegno, which located in Rivoli, the Province of Turin. He left on loan to Veneto side Treviso in 2006.
He returned to Piedmont for Serie C2 side Pro Vercelli from Filadelfia Paradiso Calcio on 31 August 2007.
He was a player of the reserve. In 2008-2009 season, he left for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (ex–Serie C2) side Ivrea, and was selected to the Lega Pro 2nd Division.
A representative team for Lega Pro Quadrangular Tournament and scored a goal against 2nd Division. C representative team in the third place match.
Parma
In August 2009 he was scouted by Serie A side Parma.
He spent a season at their Primavera team In July 2010, he left for Atletico Roma along with Alessio Tombesi (co-ownership), Abdou Doumbia (loan) and Abel Gigli (loan), as part of the deal that Parma signed Lega Pro 2nd Division. top-scorer Daniel Ciofani in a co-ownership deal. Lapadula made his debut on 8 August 2010, the opening match of the season.
He replaced Babú in the extra time, which Atletico Roma lost 1–2 to Cremonese in the Coppa Italia match.
In January 2011 Lapadula left for Ravenna. Lapadula made an breakthrough in the 2011-2012 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, when he became the Group A topscorer with 24 goals, just behind the division topscorer, Giordano Fioretti of the Group B (33 goals).
Cesena
On 15 June 2012 Lapadula joined Serie B club Cesena in co-ownership deal in a 5-year contract. That month Parma and Cesena made cashless swap that Lapadula (€14M) and Defrel moved to Cesena (€12M).
Rossini (€16M) and Delegate Pivo moved to Parma (€1M).
Cesena also acquired Marco Rossi for free from Parma in August 2012 due to his ban, as well as the temporary deal of Andrea Rossi and Gonçalo Brandão. Parma paid a notional sporting bonuses (Italian: premi di valorizzazione) of €3 million to Cesena to finalize the loans but only paid €1 million and zero to Cesena to acquire Parolo and Benalouane in temporary deals. Lapadula failed to play regularly for Cesena.
On 8 January 2013 he was signed by Frosinone with Leandro Campagna moved to Parma on 15 January.
Lapadula failed to score either in the Lazio based club In June–July 2013 the deals between Cesena and Parma were resolved in cashless swap, which saw Lapadula returned to Parma.
Parma return
Lapadula returned to Parma in June 2013 in a 5-year contract but immediately left for Slovenian club Nova Gorica on 1 July, along with Bright Addae, Daniele Bazzoffia, Uroš Celcer, Massimo Coda, Alex Cordaz, Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas, Alen Jogan, Floriano Vanzo and Fabio Lebran (Crotone/Parma). The deals were finalized on 12 July.
On 18 July 2014 he was signed by Teramo along with Abdelaye Diakité in temporary deals.
Pescara
Lapadula was released on 25 June 2015 due to the bankruptcy of Parma. On 9 July 2015 he was signed by Pescara on a free transfer.
