Massimo Ganci (born 17 November 1981) is an Italian former

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who last played for Unipomezia Virtus as a

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. He played 10 games in the Serie A in the 2004–05 season for

Reggina Calcio Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo. They are ni ...

Career

Ganci started his professional career at

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label= Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of M ...

. In June 2001, along with Diego Daldosso,

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and

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, they were signed by

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in co-ownership deal for 1 billion each (€516,457). In June 2002 Daldosso and Ganci was bought back by Monza while Degano and Maggioni joined Parma outright. Ganci also immediately left for

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 ...

in temporary deal in summer 2002. Ganci was signed outright by

in January 2004, after a -season loan from Monza. In summer 2004 he left for

, where he made his Serie A debut. As he made his Serie A debut, FIGC accepted the claim from his youth club

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against Reggina for training compensation of €103,000 an incentive scheme set-up by FIGC. In January 2005 he was signed by

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in new co-ownership deal, re-joining Degano. In January 2006 Ganci left for Bari in temporary deal. Bari acquired Piacenza's half registration rights on Ganci in summer 2006 via Treviso, which Bari paid Treviso €250,000; In June 2007 Bari acquired Ganci outright from Treviso. Ganci was included in Bari's 2008 pre-season camp on 14 July despite he would join the team on 16 July. On 1 September 2008 Ganci joined

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. In January 2009 he was signed by Salernitana. In July 2009 he left for

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo Regions of Italy, region of Italy. It is the most populated ci ...

. In

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season, he was awarded no.99 shirt of the team, Ganci was released by Pescara along with Samuele Olivi on 29 August; on the same day he was signed by

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in 2-year contract.

Italian football scandal

On 16 July 2013 Ganci was suspended from football for 4 years due to involvement in

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. His appeal was rejected on 27 July. On 27 April 2014 his final appeal was accepted, which the ban was reduced to 22 months.

Maceratese

On 21 July 2015 Ganci was signed by Maceratese.

Unipomezia Virtus

In December 2019, Ganci joined Unipomezia Virtus.MASSIMO GANCI: "IMPATTO POSITIVO, ORA SERVONO LE VITTORIE"
unipomeziavirtus.com, 13 December 2019

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ganci, Massimo 1981 births Living people Italian men's footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players Maltese Premier League players AC Monza players Treviso FBC 1993 players LFA Reggio Calabria players Piacenza Calcio 1919 players SSC Bari players AS Cittadella players US Salernitana 1919 players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Frosinone Calcio players L'Aquila 1927 players AC Pavia 1911 SSD players Ħamrun Spartans F.C. players ASD Barletta 1922 players Italy men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards SS Maceratese 1922 players Italian expatriate sportspeople in Malta Expatriate men's footballers in Malta Footballers from Milan