Hugo Armando Campagnaro (born 27 June 1980) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 football defender

Defender (association football)

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 with Italian origins who currently plays for Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 club Napoli

S.S.C. Napoli

Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....

.

Career

He started his career at Club Deportivo Morón

Club Deportivo Morón

Club Deportivo Morón is a sports club located in the city of Morón, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in Primera B Metropolitana, which is the regionalised third division of the Argentine Football Association....

, played in Argentine second and third division. In 2002, having not played top level football, he was signed by Piacenza

Piacenza Calcio

Piacenza Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Piacenza. The club was formed in 1919 and currently plays in Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione B. The team's colors are red and white, prompting one of the team's nicknames, the Biancorossi. They are also known as the Papaveri , and...

, at that time in Serie A.

In summer 2007, he was signed by Sampdoria

U.C. Sampdoria

Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...

 for their preparation for 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

On 9 July 2009 he was contracted by Napoli

S.S.C. Napoli

Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....

 for €7 million, as part of the deal Daniele Mannini

Daniele Mannini

Daniele Mannini is an Italian footballer. He plays for Serie A side A.C. Siena.-Career:Son of former ACF Fiorentina goalkeeper Alessandro Mannini, Daniele started his professional career at hometown club Viareggio, playing with them in the Italian Serie C2 and Serie D tiers.In summer 2003, he...

 moved to Sampdoria in joint-ownership bid for €3.5 million; he signed a 4-year contract.

On 9 June 2011, he was involved in a serious road traffic accident in the province of Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...

, which killed one of the passengers in his SUV and two people in the other car involved in the incident. His injuries are thought to be serious, but not life threatening.

External links

• Player profile on Napoli's official website