Gianvito Plasmati
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Gianvito Plasmati is an Italian footballer
, who currently plays for A.S.G. Nocerina.
club F.C. Matera
in 2000. He then played for Virtus Locorotondo of Serie D from September 2000, until June 2001, when he signed for Calcio Chieti
.
, following several impressive displays in his early years for his prior clubs. The striker made just 5 appearances for the club between 2001 and 2003. His lack of playing time left the player frustrated and in the summer of 2003, he would switch clubs yet again.
. He remained at the club for just one season, after yet another disappointing campaign. The young striker failed to score in just 4 appearances. He was transfer listed in January, but failed to secure a transfer, before eventually signing for Sicilian club Ragusa
in July 2004.
, Plasmati transferred back to the mainland with Andria
.
, a club also in the Serie C2. Plasmati obtained regular playing time for another season and went on to score a fairly impressive 12 goals in 31 league appearances. Following 2 impressive seasons, back-to-back, the big striker was acquired by newly promoted Serie A
side, Calcio Catania.
debut, but failed to make an impact at his new club, making just 9 appearances. Following the below-par loan period, He returned to Catania
on 31 January 2007. He remained with his club for the remainder of the 2006–07 Serie A season, making his league debut on 7 April 2007, in a game against Roma
. This proved to be his only appearance for the duration of the season, as he was behind Giuseppe Mascara
, Gionatha Spinesi
, Giorgio Corona
, Takayuki Morimoto
, and Fausto Rossini
in the pecking order.
Following a poor debut season in the Serie A, Foggia purchased the remaining share of the striker's contract from Andria BAT
. Now in co-ownership between Catania and Foggia, the player went to play for the latter, and made 15 Serie C1 appearances with just 2 goals. For the second half of the campaign, Catania and Foggia agreed to send the player on loan to Taranto Sport
, along with Catania teammate Adriano Mezavilla. With his new club, Plasmati scored an impressive 7 goals in just 13 games, and in June 2008, was purchased outright by the Sicilian club.
He was confirmed by Catania head coach Walter Zenga
for the 2008–09 season, following the purchase of the remaining share of his contract from Foggia. Plasmati scored his first Serie A goal at San Siro, Milan
in a 1–2 loss to the most recent champions Internazionale
. Plasmati's second Serie A goal
came against another Italian powerhouse Juventus in a 1–1 draw in Turin. The striker managed 13 appearances during the first portion of the season, but was sent out on loan to Serie A rivals Atalanta for the remainder of the season by Zenga.
, for a cost of €300,000. Following his loan move, the 26 year old striker scored three additional goals in 12 appearances. Atalanta had the option to buy half of his contract at the end of the season for a sum of €1.5 million, but opted not to and hence, he returned to Calcio Catania in June 2009.
, that saw Catania lose just four games in six months, following the appointment of the Serbian head coach. The player fell down the pecking order under his new coach behind Maxi Lopez
, Giuseppe Mascara
, Takayuki Morimoto
, Jorge Andres Martinez
during the 2009-10 season, before being excluded from the first team at the start of the 2010-11 campaign due to financial and contractual problems. The player was likely to be either sold or released anyhow, do to the presences of several strikers above him in the first team pecking order, including Mascara, Lopez, and Morimoto, along with new arrivals Mirco Antenucci, and later Gonzalo Bergessio.
On 19 April 2011, Plasmati joined Celtic
for a 1-week trial ahead of a possible transfer to the Glasgow club in the summer.
club A.S.G. Nocerina on free transfer.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, who currently plays for A.S.G. Nocerina.
Early career
Plasmati started his career at Ferrandina Calcio in 1999, before moving to fellow Serie DSerie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...
club F.C. Matera
F.C. Matera
Football Club Matera was an Italian association football club located in Matera, Basilicata.Its colors were white and blue.-History:The club was founded in 1930....
in 2000. He then played for Virtus Locorotondo of Serie D from September 2000, until June 2001, when he signed for Calcio Chieti
Calcio Chieti
Società Sportiva Chieti Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in Chieti, Abruzzo.The team's colors are green and black.The club was founded in 1922 as Calcio Chieti. Chieti played 2005/2006 in Serie C1/B, ending last-placed and being therefore relegated to Serie C2 for the next season...
.
Chieti
In June 2001, Plasmati left for Calcio Chieti of the Italian Serie C1Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....
, following several impressive displays in his early years for his prior clubs. The striker made just 5 appearances for the club between 2001 and 2003. His lack of playing time left the player frustrated and in the summer of 2003, he would switch clubs yet again.
Brindisi
In July 2003, Plasmati officially signed for Brindisi, a club then competing in the Italian Serie C2Serie C2
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...
. He remained at the club for just one season, after yet another disappointing campaign. The young striker failed to score in just 4 appearances. He was transfer listed in January, but failed to secure a transfer, before eventually signing for Sicilian club Ragusa
U.S. Ragusa
Unione Sportiva Ragusa is an Italian association football club located in Ragusa, Sicily. It currently plays in Eccellenza, having been excluded from Serie D in 2007 for bankruptcy. Its colors are blue and white....
in July 2004.
Ragusa
Plasmati joined the Serie C2 club, and finally secured regular playing time. He spent the season playing as a center forward, and scored 7 goals in 27 league appearances. The Sicilian club gave Plasmati his most successful season of his career to this point. Following his impressive form, but the failure of RagusaRagusa, Italy
Ragusa is a city and comune in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with around 75,000 inhabitants. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo and Cava Santa Domenica...
, Plasmati transferred back to the mainland with Andria
A.S. Andria BAT
Associazione Sportiva Andria BAT or simply A.S. Andria is an Italian football club, based in Andria, Apulia.The team currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.The team's colors are blue and white.- Fidelis Andria :...
.
Andria
In August 2005, Plasmati was officially presented as a signing for AndriaA.S. Andria BAT
Associazione Sportiva Andria BAT or simply A.S. Andria is an Italian football club, based in Andria, Apulia.The team currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.The team's colors are blue and white.- Fidelis Andria :...
, a club also in the Serie C2. Plasmati obtained regular playing time for another season and went on to score a fairly impressive 12 goals in 31 league appearances. Following 2 impressive seasons, back-to-back, the big striker was acquired by newly promoted Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
side, Calcio Catania.
Catania
On 7 July 2006, Plasmati was signed by Catania in joint ownership bid. The club was just promoted to the Italian top flight following a runner-up finish in the Serie B. Plasmati was set to secure his first season in the Serie A, but on 8 August 2006, he was sent out on loan to Serie B club Crotone. The striker did manage his Serie BSerie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
debut, but failed to make an impact at his new club, making just 9 appearances. Following the below-par loan period, He returned to Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
on 31 January 2007. He remained with his club for the remainder of the 2006–07 Serie A season, making his league debut on 7 April 2007, in a game against Roma
A.S. Roma
Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...
. This proved to be his only appearance for the duration of the season, as he was behind Giuseppe Mascara
Giuseppe Mascara
Giuseppe Mascara is an Italian professional football player currently playing for Napoli in the Italian Serie A. He is equally adept at playing as a striker or as a wide forward.-U.S. Ragusa:...
, Gionatha Spinesi
Gionatha Spinesi
Gionatha Spinesi is an Italian former footballer.-Career:Spinesi started playing for Pisa Calcio. In November 1995 he signed for Inter Milan, however, he was not able to make appearance in the first team. Sold in January 1997 to Castel di Sangro, he played two unimpressive Serie B seasons for the...
, Giorgio Corona
Giorgio Corona
Giorgio Corona is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Messina.-Biography:Corona joined Brindisi in 2002 in co-ownership deal, from Messina. In 2003 Brindisi acquired the remain 50% registration rights. He then joined Catanzaro in 2003. In June 2006 he was signed by Calcio Catania.He...
, Takayuki Morimoto
Takayuki Morimoto
is a Japanese footballer who plays for Novara in the Serie A, in a co-ownership bid with Catania.Morimoto holds the record for the youngest Japanese player to make his professional debut and the youngest scorer in J. League history...
, and Fausto Rossini
Fausto Rossini
Fausto Rossini is an Italian footballer-Atalanta:Rossini started his career at Atalanta. In 2003 he joined Bologna along with Cesare Natali in a co-ownership deal, but bought back in June 2004...
in the pecking order.
Following a poor debut season in the Serie A, Foggia purchased the remaining share of the striker's contract from Andria BAT
A.S. Andria BAT
Associazione Sportiva Andria BAT or simply A.S. Andria is an Italian football club, based in Andria, Apulia.The team currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione.The team's colors are blue and white.- Fidelis Andria :...
. Now in co-ownership between Catania and Foggia, the player went to play for the latter, and made 15 Serie C1 appearances with just 2 goals. For the second half of the campaign, Catania and Foggia agreed to send the player on loan to Taranto Sport
Taranto Sport
A.S. Taranto Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in Taranto, Apulia. The club was founded in 1904. Taranto currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, having last been in Serie B in 1993. The team's colors are red and blue.-History:...
, along with Catania teammate Adriano Mezavilla. With his new club, Plasmati scored an impressive 7 goals in just 13 games, and in June 2008, was purchased outright by the Sicilian club.
He was confirmed by Catania head coach Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga is a retired Italian footballer and current manager. He is a long-time goalkeeper for the Italian national team and Internazionale. He also holds Romanian citizenship...
for the 2008–09 season, following the purchase of the remaining share of his contract from Foggia. Plasmati scored his first Serie A goal at San Siro, Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
in a 1–2 loss to the most recent champions Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
. Plasmati's second Serie A goal
Goal (sport)
Goal refers to a method of scoring in many sports. It can also refer to the physical structure or area of the playing surface where scoring occurs....
came against another Italian powerhouse Juventus in a 1–1 draw in Turin. The striker managed 13 appearances during the first portion of the season, but was sent out on loan to Serie A rivals Atalanta for the remainder of the season by Zenga.
Atalanta loan
On 1 February 2009, Plasmati was loaned to AtalantaAtalanta B.C.
Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...
, for a cost of €300,000. Following his loan move, the 26 year old striker scored three additional goals in 12 appearances. Atalanta had the option to buy half of his contract at the end of the season for a sum of €1.5 million, but opted not to and hence, he returned to Calcio Catania in June 2009.
Return to Catania
Following Atalanta's decision to not buy the player outright, Plasmati returned to Catania and was re-inserted into the first team by new coach Gianluca Atzori. The player managed 13 appearances during the 2009–10 season, partially due to injury. Catania ended the season with a record points total, finishing 12th in the league, following the impressive form under Siniša MihajlovićSiniša Mihajlovic
Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
, that saw Catania lose just four games in six months, following the appointment of the Serbian head coach. The player fell down the pecking order under his new coach behind Maxi Lopez
Maxi López
Maximiliano Gastón López is an Argentine football player who currently plays as a striker for Calcio Catania in the Italian Serie A. López also holds Italian nationality.-River Plate:...
, Giuseppe Mascara
Giuseppe Mascara
Giuseppe Mascara is an Italian professional football player currently playing for Napoli in the Italian Serie A. He is equally adept at playing as a striker or as a wide forward.-U.S. Ragusa:...
, Takayuki Morimoto
Takayuki Morimoto
is a Japanese footballer who plays for Novara in the Serie A, in a co-ownership bid with Catania.Morimoto holds the record for the youngest Japanese player to make his professional debut and the youngest scorer in J. League history...
, Jorge Andres Martinez
Jorge Andrés Martínez
Jorge Andrés Martínez Barrios is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays for Cesena in the Italian Serie A.-Montevideo Wanderers F.C.:...
during the 2009-10 season, before being excluded from the first team at the start of the 2010-11 campaign due to financial and contractual problems. The player was likely to be either sold or released anyhow, do to the presences of several strikers above him in the first team pecking order, including Mascara, Lopez, and Morimoto, along with new arrivals Mirco Antenucci, and later Gonzalo Bergessio.
On 19 April 2011, Plasmati joined Celtic
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
for a 1-week trial ahead of a possible transfer to the Glasgow club in the summer.
Nocerina
On 4 August 2011, Plasmati moved to the Serie BSerie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
club A.S.G. Nocerina on free transfer.
External links
- società Calcio Catania
- Gianvito Plasmati - Catania - Campionato di Serie A La Gazzetta dello Sport