Fabio Galante

Fabio Galante

Personal information
Date of birth	(1973-11-20) 20 November 1973
Place of birth	Montecatini Terme, Italy
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1993	Empoli	48	(3)
1994–1996	Genoa	85	(7)
1996–1999	Internazionale	55	(2)
1999–2004	Torino	124	(6)
2004–2010	Livorno	149	(5)
Total		461	(23)
International career‡
1991	Italy U-18	10	(2)
1994–1996	Italy U-21	18	(4)
1996	Italy Olympic	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 September 2008

Fabio Galante (born 20 November 1973 in Montecatini Terme, Province of Pistoia) is an Italian footballer, who played as a defender. He represented Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Career

Galante started his professional career for Serie C1 side Empoli F.C., then coached by Luciano Spalletti. He successively moved to Genoa C.F.C. in 1994, where he won the 1996 Anglo-Italian Cup. He then switched to Internazionale in 1996. With Internazionale, Galante played three seasons, mostly as a backup player, winning an UEFA Cup title in 1998.

In 1999 he signed for Torino Calcio, where he spent four seasons, two of them in Serie A; he helped the club to gain Serie A promotion, winning the 2000–01 Serie B title; the following season he helped the club to win a spot in the 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

In 2004, after having been relegated to the role of a backup defender in the Torino squad, he moved to Livorno, where he quickly became a key player and helped the team to maintain a Serie A place until 2008. He was subsequently released for free by the amaranto, but on November 2008 he agreed a one-year contract with his former team, so returning to Livorno for their 2008–09 Serie B campaign.

Honours

Genoa

• Anglo-Italian Cup: 1995–96

Inter

• UEFA Cup: 1997–98

Torino

• Serie B: 2000–01

Italy under-21

• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship: 1994, 1996

External links

• Fabio Galante at tuttocalciatori.net