Davide Ernestino Brivio (born 17 March 1988) is an

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who plays as a defender.

Club career

Brivio started his professional career at

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Fiorentina

On 30 August 2005, Brivio left Atalanta, who had just been relegated to Serie B, to join

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, who purchased half of the player's license, for €1 million.ACF Fiorentina Report and Accounts on 31 December 2007 Brivio made his

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debut on 15 April 2006 at home to Treviso. He played another match on 7 April 2007 against Ascoli. Atalanta bought back all Brivio's ownership rights from Fiorentina during the summer of 2007 by blind auction for €516,000.

Vicenza and Lecce

On 7 August 2007, he was sold to

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in another joint-ownership arrangement, as part of a deal that brought

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back to Atalanta. 50% registration rights of Brivio was valued €900,000 at that time, while 50% rights of Padoin was valued for €1.9 million.Vicenza Calcio SpA ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2008
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/ref> On 4 January 2008 Vicenza acquired Brivio outright for another €750,000. On the same day Vicenza also acquired Zampagna for €1.9 million, as well as sold Padoin outright for €1.55 million. The overall transactions made Vicenza paid €100,000 cash in net, and the full registration rights of Padoin to Atalanta in order to acquire Brivio and Zampagna. In summer 2008, Brivio played once in Serie B before loaned to

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But after just played once in Serie A in December, he was back to Vicenza. In July 2010, he was signed by

side

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in a co-ownership deal, for €750,000.Vicenza Calcio Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011
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/ref> As part of the deal, half of the registration rights of Alain Baclet was sold to Vicenza for €400,000, as well as the loan of Raffaele Schiavi, made Brivio's deal only involved €350,000 cash. After helping Lecce escape relegation in

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, Lecce bought the remain 50% registration rights for €750,000. Co-currently, Vicenza excised the option to sign Schiavi outright for the same price, made the deal a direct cashless swap.

Atalanta

On 6 July 2012, Brivio signed a contract with his first club Atalanta. On 1 September 2014, Brivio was signed by

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Genoa

On 31 August 2016,

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announced that they have signed Brivio.

Chiasso

On 15 February 2019, Brivio signed with Swiss club

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Chievo

Brivio returned to Italy for

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club

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in mid-2019.

Triestina

On 31 January 2020 he moved to

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club

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on a 1.5-year contract.

International career

He was amongst the losing semi-finalists as Italy were defeated by the Netherlands in the

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, and took part in the Italian victory over Croatia in the Third Place Playoff. He was also a member of the

squad in the

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. Brivio made his youth international debut in June 2003, the post season matches of U16 (born 1987) team. On 12 August 2009 he made his debut with the Italy U-21 national team in a friendly game against

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References

External links

*
Gazzetta dello Sport profile
*http://aic.football.it/scheda/16376/brivio-davide.htm *
Biography of Brivio
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