Rej Volpato is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 football (soccer)

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...

 striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 who currently plays for Livorno

A.S. Livorno Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie B. The team's colors are dark red or maroon...

.

Club career

He started his professional career at Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

, but went on loan to A.C. Siena

A.C. Siena

Associazione Calcio Siena is an Italian football club based in Siena.The club currently plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B at the end of the 2010-2011 season....

 and A.C. Arezzo

A.C. Arezzo

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Atletico Arezzo is an Italian association football club based in Arezzo, Tuscany...

 in the next 2 years. On July 4, 2007 he was signed by Empoli

Empoli F.C.

Empoli Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Empoli, Tuscany, founded in 1920 and played its first official match in 1921.In recent years, the club has all too often been bouncing between Italy's two top divisions...

 in a co-ownership deal (€500K) that kept him with the Tuscan team for the 2007–2008 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...

 season, along with fellow Juventus youth players Sebastian Giovinco

Sebastian Giovinco

Sebastian Giovinco is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Parma and the Italian national team. Giovinco is an attacking midfielder with noted dribbling skills, play-making skills and he is known for his freekicks....

 and Claudio Marchisio

Claudio Marchisio

Claudio Marchisio is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. A product of the Juventus youth system, he has spent his whole career thus far at his hometown club, with the exception of a season-long loan spell at Empoli...

, who were on loan. After the three players' successful season in Serie A with Empoli

Empoli

Empoli is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, about 20 km southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the latter river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The commune's territory becomes a hilly one as it departs from the river...

, who eventually were relegated to Serie B anyway, Juventus brought back Volpato, Marchisio, and Giovinco. Marchisio and Giovinco continued with Juventus, but it was Volpato who was again farmed out, but this time to Serie B

Serie 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...

 side, AS Bari in joint-ownership bid, where he will work with head coach, and former Juventus hero Antonio Conte

Antonio Conte

Antonio Conte is an Italian former footballer and manager. He is the current manager of Juventus.-Playing career:...

. He along with several other Juventus youth products flood the Serie B, to gain first team experience. In February 2009 he moved from AS Bari to Piacenza Calcio

Piacenza Calcio

Piacenza Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Piacenza. The club was formed in 1919 and currently plays in Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione B. The team's colors are red and white, prompting one of the team's nicknames, the Biancorossi. They are also known as the Papaveri , and...

, in search if more first team action. After spending a year with serie B side Gallipoli relegation to Serie C saw Volpato make a move to Livorno Calcio.

External links

• http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p193599.shtml