Davide Favaro (born 7 May 1984) is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Youth Soccer Career

Born in

Mirano Mirano is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. People *Luigi Brugnaro (born 1961), politician and current mayor of Venice (since 2015) *Federica Pellegrini (born 1988), Olympic swimmer, multiple world-record ho ...

Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...

, Favaro started his youth career at A.C. Milan of

Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

, where he played for five years from the 1998/99 to the 2002/2003 season. In his five years at A.C. Milan, Favaro scored 59 goals. Unfortunately, in March 2003 he had a ligament rupture that didn't allow him to play until January 2004. In 2003, A.C. Milan swapped youth players with

Internazionale Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is ...

and

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmigiano-Reggiano, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 ...

. That season, Favaro (€1M),

Marco Donadel Marco Donadel (born 21 April 1983) is an Italian football coach and a former midfielder. Club career Milan Donadel is a youth product of Milan, playing for the youth side between 1998 and 2002, winning the Torneo di Viareggio in 1999 and 2001 ...

(€2M), and

Mirko Stefani Mirko Stefani (born 25 January 1984) is an Italian association football, football coach (sports), coach and former player who played as a Defender (association football), defender. Stefani has played once in Serie A and over 100 matches in Lega ...

(€1M) of Milan were swapped for

Roberto Massaro Roberto Massaro (born 26 July 1983) is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward. Career Born in Brindisi, southern Italy, Massaro started his professional career at AC Fiorentina of Florence. He played his only match at Serie A on 10 ...

(€2M),

Filippo Porcari Filippo Porcari (born 28 April 1984) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Porcari played over 100 matches at the Italian third highest level. He followed Novara promoted from the third division to the first in 2 successive ...

(€1M) and Luca Ferretti (€1M). All deals were co-ownership deals and Favaro signed a 5-year contract. Favaro played a season at Primavera Team, where he was again trained by his former coach

Davide Ballardini Davide Ballardini (born 6 January 1964) is an Italian football manager. He formerly played professionally for Cesena as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of club Cremonese. Playing career A former midfielder, Ballardini spent seven y ...

as well as scoring 6 goals in 12 matches. In June 2004, Parma bought the remaining rights to Favaro and Stefani, while Donadel was bought back by Milan and received in return the remaining rights for Porcari and Ferretti. Favaro played for the Italy National Team at

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qualifiers.

Professional Soccer Career

Since the 2004 season, Favaro was loaned to clubs in

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

and

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

. In his first season, he played at S.S. Sambenedettese where he was trained for the third time by Ballardini, and the club reached third place in rank. In the 2007–08 season, Favaro left for

Giulianova Giulianova ( Giuliese: ' ) is a coastal town and ''comune'' in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo region, Italy. The ''comune'' also has city ( it, città) status, thus also known as Città di Giulianova. Geography The town lies in the north of the A ...

and in mid-season swapped club with

Fabio Mazzeo Fabio Mazzeo (born 24 July 1983) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Potenza. Career Mazzeo started his career at Salernitana. He then played for Serie C2 club Nocerina and Perugia of Serie C1. In August 2009, Mazzeo left fo ...

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. In 2008–09 season, Favaro played for

Chieti Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...

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, the 5th level and top of regional league and non-professional football. In 2009–10 season, Favaro joined newly re-found

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

Eccellenza Veneto Eccellenza Veneto is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Veneto, Italy. It is competed amongst 32 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also hav ...

whose predecessor entered bankruptcy and finished bottom of

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

. Favaro scored 18 goals during that season, even though he played midfielder. The following season Favaro played at

Feltre Feltre ( vec, Fèltre) is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. A hill town in the southern reaches of the province, it is located on the Stizzon River, about from its junction with the Piave, and southwes ...

, where he scored 11 goals. Favaro then played at

Dolo Dolo is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is connected by the SP26 provincial road and is one of the towns of the Riviera del Brenta. The growth of the town of Dolo is due to the gradual downsizing of th ...

, where he scored 18 goals.

Education

Favaro graduated with a Bachelor of Art in Business Administration at

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

on October, 2013. On December, 2015, he again graduated with a Master of Science in Sports Administration from St. Thomas University in Miami, FL. In May, 2018, Favaro also obtained an MBA in Sport Management at St. Thomas University in Miami, FL.

References

External links

Profile at FIGC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Favaro, Davide Italian men's footballers Italy men's youth international footballers AC Milan players Parma Calcio 1913 players US Sambenedettese players AC Prato players Giulianova Calcio players SSD Chieti FC 1922 players Treviso FBC 1993 players Men's association football forwards Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Venice 1984 births Living people People from Mirano