Role Football player Years Team Height 1.65 m | 2006–2009 Bristol Rovers Name Tom Parrinello | |
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Full name Tommaso Salvatore Parrinello Date of birth (1989-11-11) 11 November 1989 (age 26) 2008–2009 → Weston-super-Mare (loan) | ||
Place of birth Stoke Gifford, England | ||
FA Youth Cup Reaction: Tom Parrinello
Tommaso Salvatore "Tom" Parrinello (born 10 July 1989) is an English football defender of Italian descent, who plays for Mangotsfield Utd. He has also previously played for Gloucester City, Weston-Super-Mare, and Bristol Rovers.
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Career
Parrinello made his debut for the Bristol Rovers first team on 1 December 2007, when he appeared in an FA Cup second round match against Rushden & Diamonds, coming on as a substitute for Craig Disley.
He was the youngest of the five scholars to be offered a professional contract in the summer of 2006. As a sixteen-year-old, he made a number of reserve team appearances in 2005/06 and was a regular in the reserve side in 2006/07 and 2007/08.
Parrinello joined Weston-super-Mare on loan in December 2008 in order to gain some first team experience, but the move became permanent two months later.
He joined Gloucester City in the summer of 2010 and was as an almost ever-present for the 2010/11 season.
In 2011/12 season he joined Mangotsfield Utd.
He is currently the Lead Professional Development Phase Coach at Bristol Rovers having previously held other coaching roles within the Academy.