Emanuele Terranova (born 14 April 1987) is an Italian

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who plays as a defender for club Lumezzane.

Career

Terranova started his career playing with a number of local amateur teams, including

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side Campobello, then joining the Palermo youth system in 2005 and playing with the ''Primavera'' under-20 squad with the ''rosanero''. He successively spent the entire 2007–08 season on loan to

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, being also often featured as a regular. He played the 2008–09 season again out on loan, this time to

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, being part of the Tuscans' successful campaign that led them back to Serie A after only one season. Livorno decided not to make an offer for a permanent deal, so Terranova returned to Palermo, and joined

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's first team squad. On 19 August 2009, Terranova was loaned out to

outfit

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, with an option for the ''giallorossi'' from

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to buy half of the player's transfer rights at the end of the season, which the club did not use. In July 2010, Terranova went out on loan again, this time to

Frosinone Frosinone (; local dialect: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Lazio, administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is about southeast of Rome, close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of th ...

. On 1 July 2011, Serie B club

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announced that they had completed the permanent signing of Terranova from Palermo. On 17 August 2018, Terranova signed with Cremonese. On 30 August 2021, he was loaned to

Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...

, with an obligation to buy in case of Bari's promotion to

. On 31 January 2023, Terranova moved to Reggina on a year-and-a-half-long contract. On 8 September 2023, Terranova signed a one-season contract with

Benevento Benevento ( ; , ; ) is a city and (municipality) of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the Sabato (r ...

. On 30 July 2024, Terranova joined Lumezzane for one season.

Career statistics

Honours

Lecce *

: 2009–10 Sassuolo * Serie B: 2012–13 Bari *

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: 2021–22 (Group C)

References

External links

Gazzetta dello Sport profile

{{DEFAULTSORT:Terranova, Emanuele 1987 births Living people People from Mazara del Vallo Footballers from the Province of Trapani Italian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Palermo FC players LR Vicenza players US Livorno 1915 players US Lecce players Frosinone Calcio players US Sassuolo Calcio players US Cremonese players SSC Bari players AS Reggina 1914 players Benevento Calcio players FC Lumezzane players 21st-century Italian sportsmen