Davide Bagnacani (born 8 January 1980) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

Career

Early career & false accounting scandal

Born in

Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia (; ), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until Unification of Italy, 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 172,51 ...

, Bagnacani started his career at Reggiana. In 1999–2000 season, he left for Serie A side

Piacenza Piacenza (; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Piacenza, eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with more ...

, in the first season at

Flavio Roma Flavio Roma (; born 21 June 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Playing career Roma started his career in the youth teams of Lazio. He was the third goalkeeper behind Luca Marchegiani and Fernando Orsi ...

's backup along with

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and Matteo Giovagnoli. On 29 June 2002, one day before the end of 2001–02 fiscal year, along with team-mate

Stefano Di Fiordo Stefano Di Fiordo (born 5 February 1980) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Early career Born in Civitavecchia, the Province of Rome The province of Rome () was one of the five provinces that formed p ...

were exchanged with Roma's Primavera youth team keeper Simone Paoletti and Alfredo Vitolo in co-ownership deal for €4.5Million, which later suspected to be an irregular deal to gain false profit by inflated the nominal price. That season Roma gained €55 million by exchanged their youth players with inflated price but almost all €55million were in terms of registration rights of other team's youth products. AS Roma was finally fined €60,000 by Criminal Court of Rome on 30 October 2007 for irregularity on youth player transfers.

Roma & Piacenza

Bagnacani was immediately loaned to Serie C2 side

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which he played as first choice. In June 2003, he was bought back by

along with Di Fiordo for undisclosed fees and Roma bought back Paoletti and Vitolo for just €1,000. He became

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and

Paolo Orlandoni Paolo Orlandoni (born 12 August 1972) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeper coach for Inter Milan. Club career He started hi ...

's backup in 2003–04 season. He played the last match of the season on 12 June 2004 and backup by Marco Serena. The match ended in 4–4 draw with

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Reggiana

In 2005, he left for hometown club Reggiana at

Serie C2 Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging t ...

, as

Raffaele Nuzzo Raffaele Nuzzo (born 21 February 1973) is an Italian former professional footballer. He spent most of his career in the Italian Serie C1 and Serie C2, in the role of a backup goalkeeper. Career Inter Milan Born in 1973, in Monza, which at the ...

's backup. He was offered a new 1-year contract in July 2006. The club lost in the promotion playoffs in 2007, Bagnacani and Nuzzo were retired and replaced by

Marco Ambrosio Marco Ambrosio (30 May 1973) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Ambrosio played for multiple teams in the Italian leagues from 1991 until his retirement in 2009 (most notably with Serie A sides Atalanta, Sa ...

and

Luca Tomasig Luca Tomasig (originally Tomašić, born 11 March 1983) is an Italian former professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Career Tomasig started his senior career for Pozzuolo, then Belluno of Serie D. In summer 2003, he was signed by Bel ...

International career

Bagnacani was played for Italy at youth levels. He played for Italy U18 team at 1999 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship as first choice and lost to Portugal U18 team in the finals. (Now a U19 event)

References

External links

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Profile at FIGC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagnacani, Davide Italian men's footballers Italy men's youth international footballers Serie B players AC Reggiana 1919 players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Reggio Emilia 1980 births Living people 21st-century Italian sportsmen