Marco Branca (born 6 January 1965 in Grosseto) is an Italian former football striker who is currently head of the technical area of Serie A club Internazionale.

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Branca started his playing career in the then-amateur local team of his native city Grosseto, but was soon signed by Cagliari, where he made his professional debut. He then moved to Udinese, then to U.C. Sampdoria, and then again to Udinese. Following another season for Sampdoria, he signed first for Fiorentina and successively for Parma. In 1995 he is part of AS Roma, which later sold him in the winter transfer market to Inter in exchange with Marco Delvecchio. In his first season with the nerazzurri, Branca impressively scored 17 goals in 24 matches, but did not repeat in his next campaign with Inter and was successively sold to English side Middlesbrough, offering his contribution to its promotion in the FA Premier League. Marco scored 9 goals in 12 games for Middlesbrough including 2 on his league debut in a 3-1 victory against Sunderland, a hat-trick versus Bury and another 2 in the 6-0 thrashing of Swindon. He also scored the second goal against Liverpool in the League Cup Semi Final Second Leg.^[1] He retired in 2001.

Since 2003, he has been part of Internazionale's management as their technical director.

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• Playing career

v • d • e Italy squad – 1996 Summer Olympics 1 Pagliuca • 2 Panucci • 3 Nesta • 4 Cannavaro • 5 Galante • 6 Fresi • 7 Ametrano • 8 Crippa • 9 Branca • 10 Brambilla • 11 Delvecchio • 12 Buffon • 13 Pistone • 14 Tommasi • 15 Pecchia • 16 Morfeo • 17 Lucarelli • 18 Bernardini • 19 Sartor • Coach: Maldini