Francesco Ripa (footballer, born 1974)

Francesco Ripa (born 7 April 1974) is an Italian football coach and a former player who works as a goalkeepers coach with Recanatese.

Biography
Born in Porto San Giorgio, Marche, Ripa started his career at Sangiorgese of Eccellenza Marche. He then moved to Carpi, Fermana and then Cosenza (in co-ownership deal with Genoa until 2001, exchanged with Salvatore Soviero in 1998. ) With Cosenza, he played 5 Serie B seasons (1 season loaned to Serie C1 club Pisa.)

In mid-2003 he joined Ravenna and in January 2004 moved to Sora. Since 2005, he spent 5 seasons at Foligno, which he played 17, 31, 32, 20 and 0 games respectively. In the last season he was the backup of Andrea Rossini and Luca Tomassini. In 2010–11 season, he played for Serie D club Perugia, shared the starting role with Lorenzo Riommi, winning Group E champion and promoted back to professional football.

In October 2011 he joined another Serie D club Santegidiese.