Matteo Dionisi (born 22 July 1985) is an Italian professional

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who plays as a

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for club Casertana.

Club career

Born in

Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabin ...

, Dionisi started his career in modest

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club

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, and then

where he played for four seasons, winning the 2004–05 Serie D. In 2007 he signed for Valenzana on

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 ...

. Between 2009 and 2012, he played in Serie D, and one season for

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club La Sabina. In 2014 he joined to

Calcio Padova Calcio Padova, commonly referred to as Padova, is an Italian football club based in Padua, Veneto. Founded in 1910, Padova currently play in , having last been in Serie A in 1996. The team's official colours are white and red. The team was refo ...

, and after won the promotion in

2014–15 Serie D The 2014–15 Serie D was the sixty-seventh edition of the top level Italian non-professional football championship. It represented the fourth tier in the Italian football league system. It consisted of 167 teams, including the admitted Arzachen ...

, Dionisi made his professional

Serie C The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega ...

debut for the club. On 6 July 2018, he joined

Latina Calcio Latina Calcio 1932, commonly referred to as Latina, is an Italian football club based in Latina, Lazio. They currently play in the . History The club was founded in 1932 as ''Unione Sportiva Latina Calcio'' and subsequently re-established sev ...

. In December 2018, he signed for

Avellino Avellino () is a town and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. ...

. On 1 July 2020, he moved to U.S. Savoia. On 1 July 2020, he joined Serie D club

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th cen ...

. On 6 July 2022, Dionisi moved to Casertana in

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* * * 1987 births Living people People from Rieti Footballers from Lazio Italian footballers Association football defenders Serie C players Serie D players Promozione players Valenzana Mado players Rovigo Calcio players A.S.D. Civitavecchia 1920 players A.S.D. Sacilese Calcio players Pordenone Calcio players Calcio Padova players Latina Calcio 1932 players U.S. Avellino 1912 players U.S. Savoia 1908 players A.C. Trento 1921 players Casertana F.C. players Sportspeople from the Province of Rieti {{Italy-footy-defender-stub