Matteo Giordano (born 23 October 1984) is an Italian

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who plays as a defender.

Career

Born in

Sanremo Sanremo, also spelled San Remo in English and formerly in Italian, is a (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination ...

Liguria Liguria (; ; , ) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is roughly coextensive with ...

region, Matteo Giordano started his career at

Torino Calcio Torino Football Club (), colloquially referred to as Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont that currently plays in the Serie A, the highest football league of Italy. Founded in 1906 as ''Foot-Ball Club Torin ...

, then

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and played on their Primavera Team. In summer 2003, he was involved a swap deal with F.C. Internazionale Milano, in which Giordano, Ronny Diuk Toma, Simone Brunelli and Matteo Deinite moved to Internazionale, while

Salvatore Ferraro Salvatore Ferraro (born 8 September 1983) is an Italian former professional association football, footballer who played as a centre-back. Club career Ferraro started his career at Inter Milan. In 2001-2002 he was part of the Nerazzurri youth t ...

, Alessandro Livi, Giuseppe Ticli and Marco Varaldi moved to A.C. Milan. Later, the deal was criticized by the press as making false profit on the

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, as the transfer fees were paid via player exchange, but in the balance sheet, the

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could be adjusted by two clubs. The tactic is commonly used to make the transfer fees larger in Italian football. He then left on loan to

Castel di Sangro Castel di Sangro (locally ''Caštiéllë'') is a city and ''comune'' of 6,461 people (as of 2013) in the Province of L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, central Italy. It is the main city of the Alto Sangro e Altopiano delle Cinque Miglia area. Geography Caste ...

A.C. Montichiari Associazione Calcio Montichiari was an Italian association football club based in based in Montichiari, Lombardy. The last owner and president were respectively Francesco De Pasquale and Maurizio Soloni. In 2012 Carpenedolo from the nearby to ...

and

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, and

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Swiss Challenge League The Challenge League (known as the Dieci Challenge League for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest tier of the Swiss football league system and lower of two professional leagues in the country. Ten teams play in the Challenge League; the wi ...

. In June 2007, the co-ownership agreement ended with Inter fully contracted with Giordano, but he was released to join hometown club Sanremese of

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

References

External links

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Profile at Calciatori.com/
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giordano, Matteo 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Sanremo Italian men's footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Swiss Challenge League players Torino FC players AC Milan players Inter Milan players FC Lugano players AC Montichiari players SSD Sanremese Calcio players Men's association football defenders Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Footballers from Liguria 21st-century Italian sportsmen