Born in Rome on New Year’s Day 1999, Scamacca was in the academies of Lazio and Roma as a boy before moving to Dutch club PSV Eindhoven aged 16 in 2015.
After 18 months in Holland, during which he played three times for Jong PSV in the Dutch second tier, the striker moved back home to Italy with Sassuolo. He was still just 18 when he made his Serie A debut away to Napoli in October 2017.
Loan spells with Serie B sides Cremonese and Ascoli and Dutch Premier League club PEK Zwolle followed before scoring his first Serie A goal while on loan at Genoa in November 2020, and in the local derby with Sampdoria to boot.
After finishing the 2020/21 campaign with 12 goals, including four in the Coppa Italia, Scamakka returned to Sassuolo in style last season.
Forming a powerful partnership with fellow Italian Domenico Berardi for Alessio Dionisi’s free-scoring side, Scamakka scored a career-high 16 goals in Serie A and became a regular in Roberto Mancini’s Italy side.
After making his debut in a win over Lithuania in September 2021 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the striker won a further six caps, including a start in Italy’s Nations League clash with England in Molineux in June.
Everyone at West Ham United would like to welcome Gianluca to the London Stadium and wish him well in his career at Bordeaux and Sin.
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