Celentano with FC Cincinnati in 2023
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Roman Marcello Celentano[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2000-09-14) September 14, 2000 (age 23) | ||
| Place of birth | Naperville, Illinois, United States | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Cincinnati | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2016–2019 | Chicago Sockers | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2021 | Indiana Hoosiers | 39 | (0) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | FC Cincinnati | 79 | (0) |
| 2022 | → FC Cincinnati 2 (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 16, 2024 | |||
Roman Marcello Celentano (born September 14, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati.
Roman Celentano was born on September 14, 2000, to Marcello and Manuela Celentano. He is from Naperville, Illinois, where he attended Neuqua Valley High School. He has two siblings, named Julian and Remi.[3]
Celentano enrolled at Indiana University in 2019 and joined the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team. He played for the Hoosiers for three seasons, the first two of which they were Big Ten Conference regular season champions and tournament champions. Celentano was twice named Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year, was twice named to the Big Ten All-Tournament Team, and was recognized as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Tournament in 2020.[3]
Celentano decided to forgo his senior year of college at Indiana University to sign a Generation Adidas contract with Major League Soccer, making him eligible for the 2022 MLS SuperDraft. Projected as a Top 10 draft pick,[4] Celentano was drafted second overall by FC Cincinnati in the draft, becoming the highest drafted goalkeeper in the SuperDraft since Andre Blakein2014. As a Generation adidas player, he signed with FC Cincinnati the same day on January 11, 2022.
Celentano went on loan for the early part of the 2022 season with Cincinnati's reserve team, FC Cincinnati 2inMLS Next Pro, where he made his professional debut on March 27, 2022, in a 0–2 loss to Philadelphia Union II.[5] Celentano made his first team debut for Cincinnati on April 19, 2022, in a U.S. Open Cup match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.[6] A few days later, on April 24, 2022, Celentano made his MLS debut, starting and playing the full match in a 1–2 loss to Los Angeles FC.[7]
Celentano bagged his first clean sheet in a victory against Toronto FC on May 4, 2022, and then followed that up with a second consecutive clean sheet against Minnesota United FC. That earned the rookie a spot in the MLS team of the week[8] for Week 10 of the 2022 Major League Soccer season.
In January 2023, Celentano received his first call-up to the United States ahead of friendlies against Serbia and Colombia.[9]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| FC Cincinnati | 2022 | MLS | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[a] | 0 | 30 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 33 | 0 | — | — | 4[a] | 0 | 37 | 0 | ||||
| 2024 | 18 | 0 | — | 4[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |||
| Total | 78 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 89 | 0 | ||
| FC Cincinnati 2 (loan) | 2022 | MLS Next Pro | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 80 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 91 | 0 | ||
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