Emiliano Viviano

Emiliano Viviano

Personal information
Date of birth	December 1, 1985 (1985-12-01)
Place of birth	Florence, Italy
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Palermo
Number	1
Youth career
	Fiorentina
	Brescia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2009	Brescia	126	(0)
2004–2005	→ Cesena (loan)	13	(0)
2009–2011	Bologna	72	(0)
2012–	Palermo	2	(0)
National team‡
2004–2005	Italy U-20	10	(0)
2006–2007	Italy U-21	5	(0)
2008	Olympic Italy	6	(0)
2010–	Italy	6	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2011

Emiliano Viviano (born 1 December 1985 in Florence) is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Palermo, in a co-ownership deal with Internazionale.

Club career

He 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 4 years as first choice goalkeeper in Serie B with Brescia.

In January 2009 Viviano signed by Internazionale in 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 bought Brescia's 50% registration rights for undisclosed fee (which had €3.5 million nominal value).

On 25 June 2011, Viviano rejoined Inter 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 €4.1 million. 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. Bologna would only received fewer cash as part of the fee were already compensated by the transfer debt to Inter for Rene Krhin's transfer in summer 2010. On 23 July, 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. 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. Viviano would compete with Greek international Alexandros Tzorvas and Italian Francesco Benussi. In a separate deal, the transfer fee would compensate the signing of Cesare Bovo from Palermo to Genoa outright.

International career

He was first choice goalkeeper in the Italy U-20 team at 2005 U-20 World Cup. In 2007 with the Italy U-21 he took part at the U-21 European Championship. He also took part at the 2008 Summer Olympics with the Olympic team.

He made his debut for Italy senior team on 7 September 2010, in a 5-0 victory against the Faroe Islands in Florence. He became the second choice goalkeeper for Italy, only after veteran Gianluigi Buffon and ahead of another youngster Salvatore Sirigu.

External links

• FIGC (Italian)