Franco Brienza
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 March 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Cantù, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Deep-lying forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Siena | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–1994 | Campagnano | ||
| 1994–1996 | Isolotto | ||
| 1996–1997 | Foggia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1997–2000 | Foggia | 59 | (8) |
| 2000–2002 | Roma | 0 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | → Palermo (loan) | 60 | (4) |
| 2002–2008 | Palermo | 108 | (13) |
| 2002–2003 | → Ascoli (loan) | 30 | (7) |
| 2004 | → Perugia (loan) | 12 | (2) |
| 2008 | → Reggina (loan) | 20 | (7) |
| 2008–2010 | Reggina | 61 | (16) |
| 2010- | Siena | 32 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005 | Italy | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 September 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Franco Brienza (born 19 March 1979) is an Italian footballer who plays for A.C. Siena in Serie A and also represented Italy at international level.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
Born in Cantù but grown in Ischia, he began his footballing career for local club Campagnano, before moving in Florence at the age of 15 to play for Isolotto. In 1997-98 he joined with Serie B club Foggia. He followed the team relegated in 1998 to Serie C1 and again in 1999 to Serie C2.
[edit] Palermo under Sensi
In 2000 he was signed by A.S. Roma along with team-mate Attilio Nicodemo and Giuseppe Di Masi, which cost Roma 100 million Italian lire (for Brienza).[1] Roma farmed Brienza and Nicodemo along with Roma youth products Daniele De Vezze and Luca Ferri to sister club Palermo, which Franco Sensi (the President of Roma) acquired the club in March 2000. Di Masi also joined the Sicily side in January 2001. He helped his club to win the league and achieve promotion to Serie B in 2001.
On 30 June 2002, he joined Palermo permanently, for €10.9million, in exchange with Davide Bombardini, priced €11 million.[2]
[edit] Palermo under Zamparini
After Sensi sold the club to Maurizio Zamparini in July 2002, he was out-favored by Palermo, as Zamparini also bought players from his another club Venezia. His registration rights value also write drown to €1M to reflect his real value,[3] in oppose the previous value under doping Amministrativo. On 31 August 2002, he moved on loan at Ascoli, re-joined team-mate Vincenzo Montalbano, where Brienza scored 7 goals playing as second striker.
In 2003 he returned at Palermo, playing for the rosanero for the first half of the season before being loaned out to Perugia on January 2004 as part of the agreement that brought Fabio Grosso to Palermo, making his Serie A debut at Stadio San Siro, in an away match lost 2-1 to A.C. Milan.
He returned once again at Palermo as the club won promotion to Serie A. In the 2004-05 Serie A campaign, Brienza scored an impressive 10 goals in 33 games playing just behind Luca Toni. He earned a call-up to the national team that season.
In 2005-06, new Palermo boss Luigi Delneri, who always showed a preference to play a 4-4-2 formation, ruled out a 'free role' for Brienza, who had little space during the first half of the season. After Del Neri's dismissal, Brienza later found more space in the starting lineup with new coach Giuseppe Papadopulo. He scored only one goal in 27 matches, being also featured 13 times in the UEFA Cup, scoring three goals in the continental competition.
The 2006-07 season begun with Francesco Guidolin's return to Palermo; however, Brienza failed to find a stable place in the regular lineup, being featured mostly as a substitute, playing only 22 league and five UEFA Cup matches. On the 37th matchday, a 2-1 home win to Siena, Guidolin declared his choice to use Brienza mostly as a reserve as one of his main mistakes in a troubled season which ended in a fifth place.[4] Brienza, who originally declared his intention to leave Palermo to find more space in the lineup, was however confirmed also for the 2007-08 season, later stating to have changed his mind following a meeting with new boss Stefano Colantuono.[5]
[edit] Reggina
On January 17, it was announced that Brienza had joined Reggina on loan. Before leaving Palermo, Brienza was the only player still contracted to Palermo who played with the rosanero in both Serie A, B and C1 divisions.
On 2 July 2008, Brienza joined Reggina on a permanent basis. The club paid around €2.2million to buy out his Palermo contract.[6]
[edit] Siena
Brienza joined Siena following their relegation from the Serie A in the 2010/11 season.
[edit] International career
In 2005, Brienza was called up to the Italian national team by Marcello Lippi and has been subsequently been capped during a North-American tour with the Azzurri, marking his debut in a 1-1 draw with Serbia and Montenegro at Rogers Centre, Toronto on June 8, 2005, substituted Giorgio Chiellini in the 64th minutes. Brienza played also the next match, another 1-1 draw, this time to Ecuador, three days later, at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey state, suburb of New York City, New York state. That match he played as starting XI and partnered with Luca Toni and David Di Michele. Brienza and Toni was then replaced by Cristiano Lucarelli and Antonio Langella at half-time.
[edit] References
- ^ "RELAZIIONE SEMESTRALE AL 31 DIICEMBRE 2000" (in Italian). AS Roma (Borsa Italiana Archive). http://www.borsaitaliana.it/mediasource/borsa/db/pdf/1095.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ Vittorio Malagutti (2002-11-07). "La Roma ha un buco nel bilancio? Per coprirlo basta vendere 26 sconosciuti" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2002/novembre/07/Roma_buco_nel_bilancio_Per_co_0_0211077824.shtml. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 91/CDN (2009-10 season)" (in Italian). FIGC. 27 May 2010. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/89.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_24964_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ "TMW A CALDO - Palermo, Guidolin: "Soddisfatto della Uefa, ma ammetto i miei errori…"" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 2007-09-09. http://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/index.php?action=read&id=59845. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ "Brienza: "A Palermo mi trovo molto bene"" (in Italian). Stadionews. 2007-09-09. Archived from the original on 2007-12-25. http://web.archive.org/web/20071225091639/http://www.stadionews.it/brevi.asp?ID=25100. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
- ^ "DICHIARAZIONE DI ZAMPARINI" (in Italian). ilpalermocalcio.it. 2008-09-02. http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0809/news_scheda.jsp?id=9777. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
[edit] External links
- Brienza's profile (from US Palermo official website)
- Brienza's profile (from La Gazzetta dello Sport website) (Italian)
- Profile at FIGC (Italian)
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