Viviano playing for Bologna in 2011
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Emiliano Viviano | ||
Date of birth | 1 December 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Florence, Italy | ||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Sampdoria | ||
Number | 2 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2002 | Fiorentina | ||
2002–2004 | Brescia | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004–2009 | Brescia | 126 | (0) |
2004–2005 | → Cesena (loan) | 13 | (0) |
2009–2011 | Bologna | 72 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Inter Milan | 0 | (0) |
2012–2014 | Palermo | 20 | (0) |
2012–2013 | → Fiorentina (loan) | 32 | (0) |
2013–2014 | → Arsenal (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2014– | Sampdoria | 66 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2001 | Italy U16 | 1 | (0) |
2003 | Italy U18 | 2 | (0) |
2003–2004 | Italy U19 | 11 | (0) |
2004–2005 | Italy U20 | 10 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Italy U21 | 5 | (0) |
2008 | Italy U23 | 1 | (0) |
2008 | Italy Olympic | 4 | (0) |
2010– | Italy | 6 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 August 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2011 |
Emiliano Viviano (born 1 December 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sampdoria.
Born in Florence, Viviano is a product of Fiorentina and Brescia youth teams. He started his career with a loan in Serie B at Cesena in the 2004–05 season. Then he spent four years as first-choice goalkeeper in Serie B with Brescia.
In January 2009, Viviano was signed by F.C. Internazionale Milano in a co-ownership deal for €3.5 million. He was immediately loaned back to Brescia. In the 2009–10 season he made his debut in Serie A with Bologna where he became the first-choice goalkeeper. Bologna signed him in by purchasing Viviano's 50% registration rights from Brescia also for €3.5 million.
On 25 June 2011, Viviano rejoined Inter Milan from Bologna after Lega Serie A announced the result of co-ownership deals. It was due to an administrative error allowed him to join Inter for a fee of €4.1million. The error came as the Bologna club director Stefano Pedrelli accidentally halved again the initial €4.71 million valuation of the remaining 50% of his contract to bid only €2.33 million in response to Inter's €4.1 million valuation on the bid submitted to the league office on 24 June. On 23 July 2011, Viviano was diagnosed with a complete tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in the left knee. The injury ruled him out for almost half of the 2011–12 season. in August 2011, Inter swapped Viviano with Juraj Kucka in co-ownership deal, which half of Kucka for €8 million and half of Viviano for €5 million. However both players remained in the original club to wait for the recovery of Viviano. In January 2012, Palermo bought Genoa's half to end their goalkeeper search since summer 2011. He signed a contract which last until 30 June 2016. Viviano would compete with Greek international Alexandros Tzorvas and squeezed Francesco Benussi out. In a separate deal, the transfer fee would partially compensate the signing of Cesare Bovo from Palermo to Genoa outright.