Ferdinando Sforzini

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Ferdinando Sforzini
Personal information
Date of birth (1984-12-04) 4 December 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth
Tivoli, Italy
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
2001–2003
Napoli
2002–2003 →
Lazio
(loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005
Sassuolo
 38 (9)
2005–2011 Udinese 0 (0)
2005–2006 →
Verona
(loan)		 35 (5)
2006–2007 →
Modena
(loan)		 30 (5)
2007–2008 →
Vicenza
(loan)		 14 (2)
2008 →
Ravenna
(loan)		 21 (9)
2008–2009 →
Grosseto
(loan)		 18 (3)
2009 →
Avellino
(loan)		 12 (7)
2009–2010 →
Bari
(loan)		 8 (0)
2010–2011 → CFR Cluj (loan) 3 (0)
2011 →
Grosseto
(loan)		 20 (8)
2011–2013
Grosseto
 58 (30)
2013–2014 Pescara 30 (2)
2014–2015
Latina
 20 (4)
2015 Entella 19 (6)
2016
Pavia
 11 (3)
2016–2018
Viterbese Castrense
 9 (1)
2018–2019
Avellino
 29 (11)
2019 Cavese 1 (0)
2019–2020
Palermo
 14 (5)
2020–2021
Campobasso
 6 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:30, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Ferdinando Sforzini (born 4 December 1984) is an Italian former

Napoli
youth academy.

During his stay in Grosseto, Sforzini was given the nickname Nandogoal[2] and also taglia gole [cutthroat], nicknamed for his traditional goal celebration.[3]

Career

Early career

A tall

Lazio
from Napoli's youth system in 2002.

Ferdinando Sforzini graduated from Lazio youth system in 2003 and immediately sold, to

Sassuolo
.

At Sassuolo he impressed, scoring 10 goals in 29 appearances in 2004–05

Serie C2
season.

Udinese

After impressing with

U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, he was transferred to Serie A club Udinese Calcio
in June 2005.

Ferdinandos Sforzini remained at Udine for 2 months, but loaned out to

Verona in order to gain more experience in August 2005.[4] In his season with Verona, Ferdinando Sforzini managed 5 goals in 35 Serie B
appearances, which mainly as a substitutes player, but also made 16 league starts.

For the 2006–2007 season, Udinese opted to again loan out the player in July 2006, however this time, it was to

Modena, another Serie B
club. With Modena, Ferdinandos Sforzini scored 5 goals again, in 30 league appearances (started 17 times). On 1 July 2006 Sforzini returned to Udinese, however, he again was loaned out soon later.

In July 2007, Ferdinandos Sforzini transferred to

Ravenna Calcio
, but it was not enough to save them from relegation.

Ferdinandos Sforzini was again loaned out into the Serie B – this time with

Avellino. With relegation frightening Avellino Sforzini impressed, hitting good form and scoring 7 goals in just 12 Serie B
appearances.

After hitting good form with Avellino, Sforzini returned to Udinese on 1 July 2009, and received the call-up to the pre-season camp.

Giampiero Ventura preferred Riccardo Meggiorini
as starting forward to partner with Kutuzov.

Sforzini was further hit by left leg injury soon after,[9] At first he would be rested a month[10] but hit by flu in November.[11] Sforzini then trained separately for ongoing injury.[12]

After Kutuzov's out of season injury, Bari signed

Barreto, Meggiorini and Castillo. He played his return match on 30 January 2010, substituted Castillo at the second half.[13]
He made a further 5 Serie A appearances as substitute.

On 1 July 2010, Sforzini returned to Udinese again, and played for Udinese B team (composite of players that pending loan) in pre-season friendlies.[14][15][16]

CFR Cluj loan

On 25 August 2010, he was loaned to Romanian side CFR Cluj.[17][18] He made his debut in Liga I 10 September 2010 against Rapid București in a 2–0 defeat, replacing Cristian Bud eight minutes from the end of the game. On 15 September made his debut in the Champions League in Cluj- Basel (2-1), replacing Lacina Traoré as a substitute

Scored the first goal for Cluj on 27 October 2010 won the encounter against the Targu Mures (2-0 final), valid for the knockout stages of the Cupa României. However, after the sacking of Italian manager Andrea Mandorlini in September 2010, Sforzini lost his place in the side and he returned to Udinese Calcio at the start of the January window.

During the 2011 January winter transfer market he was transferred to Italian

U.S. Grosseto on loan with option to sign permanently.[19]

Grosseto

After scoring 8 goals in 20 games on loan at

Juve Stabia
).

On 10 August 2012, Grosseto were provisionally relegated, by the Disciplinary Commission set up for

Scommessopoli scandal
. Furthermore, the president of Grosseto was at the time suspended from all football activities for five years.

However, on 22 August 2012, Grosseto and its president were acquitted by the Court of justice, eliminating the verdict of the first instance and so re-instated back to Serie B for the following 2012/13 season.[20]

His start to the 2012/13 season saw him score 11 goals in his first 21

Pescara
in the January transfer window.

Pescara

On 31 January 2013, Sforzini transferred to

Pescara as part of the transfer.[22]

In his first half season he made 10 appearances im Serie A, without scoring a goal. He could not help Pescara escape from relegation to Serie B. During the 2013–14 season, Sforzini scored just 2 goals in 20 Serie B games.

Latina

On 1 September 2014 he was signed by fellow Serie B club

U.S. Latina Calcio
.

Entella

On 2 February 2015 he was swapped with Gianluca Litteri of Entella.[23]

Later career

In 2018–19, he was a regular for

Avellino, guiding the team to win the Serie D
title.

After a mere ten days with

Palermo
two weeks later.

On 9 September 2020 he joined

Campobasso.[24]

Career statistics

Club

As of 23 January 2021[25][26][27]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sassuolo
 2003–04
Serie C2
 9 0 4[a] 0 — 1[b] 0 14 0
2004–05 29 9 4[a] 0 — 2[c] 0 35 9
Total 38 9 8 0 0 0 3 0 49 9
Hellas Verona
(loan) 		2005–06 Serie B 35 5 0 0 — — 35 5
Modena
(loan) 		2006–07 30 5 3 0 — — 33 5
Vicenza
(loan) 		2007–08 14 2 2 0 — — 16 2
Ravenna
(loan) 		21 9 0 0 — — 21 9
Grosseto
(loan) 		2008–09 18 3 2 2 — 0 0 20 5
Avellino
(loan) 		12 7 0 0 — — 12 7
Bari
(loan) 		2009–10 Serie A 8 0 1 0 — — 9 0
Cluj (loan) 2010–11 Liga I 3 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 7 1
Grosseto
 2010–11 (loan) Serie B 20 8 0 0 — — 20 8
2011–12 38 20 2 1 — — 40 21
2012–13 20 10 1 1 — — 21 11
Grosseto total 96 41 5 4 0 0 0 0 101 45
Pescara 2012–13 Serie A 10 0 0 0 — — 10 0
2013–14 Serie B 20 2 1 0 — — 21 2
Total 30 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 31 2
Latina 2014–15 Serie B 20 4 0 0 — — 20 4
Virtus Entella 15 6 0 0 — 2[b] 0 17 6
2015–16 4 0 0 0 — — 4 0
Total 19 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 21 6
Pavia
 2015–16 Lega Pro 11 3 0 0 — — 11 3
Viterbese
 2016–17 9 1 1[28] 1 — 0 0 10 2
2017–18 Serie C 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0
Total 9 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 2
Avellino
 2018–19 Serie D 29 11 1[29] 0 — 1+3[30] 0 34 11
Avellino total 41 18 1 0 0 0 4 0 46 18
Cavese 2019–20 Serie C 1 0 0 0 — — 1 0
Palermo
2019–20
 Serie D 14 5 0 0 — — 14 5
Campobasso
 2020–21 6 1 — — — 6 1
Career total 396 104 24 6 2 0 9 0 431 117
  1. ^ a b All appearance(s) in Coppa Italia Serie C.
  2. ^ a b All appearance(s) in relegation play-outs.
  3. ^ All appearance(s) in promotion play-offs.

References

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  2. ^ "Torino-Grosseto Nando e Rolando Due bomber a confronto" [Grosseto Nando and Rolando Two bomber Comparison]. La Nazione. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
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  4. ^ "CALCIOMERCATO, FERDINANDOS SFORZINI ALL'HELLAS VERONA". Hellas Verona FC (in Italian). 24 August 2005. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
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  9. ^ "Si ferma Ferdinando Sforzini". AS Bari (in Italian). 2 September 2009. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Sforzini, operazione riuscita". AS Bari (in Italian). 7 September 2009. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  11. ^ "Allenamento, martedì 4 novembre". AS Bari (in Italian). 4 November 2009. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
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  19. ^ "Più qualità nel nuovo Grifone" [More quality in the new Gryphon] (in Italian). biancorossi.it. 7 January 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
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  24. Campobasso
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  26. ^ "SFORZINI FERDINANDO". Tuttocalciatori.net (in Italian).
  27. ^ "Scheda anagrafica di Ferdinando Sforzini". aic.football (in Italian).
  28. Coppa Italia Lega Pro. [1]
  29. ^ Coppa Italia Serie D. [2]
  30. ^ 1 First place tiebreaker + 3 Serie D Poule Scudetto. [3][4][5][6]

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