Nicola Madonna (born 31 October 1986) is an Italian

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who plays as a

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Club career

Madonna and Daniel Bombardieri joined AlbinoLeffe in a joint-ownership bid for €100,000 each. AlbinoLeffe got full ownership from Atalanta by blind auction between club in June 2006, for €110,000 and €11,000 respectively.Atalanta B.C. S.p.A. (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2006 (in Italian)
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/ref> He played 81 games for AlbinoLeffe at Serie B, plus 3 more appearances at 2007-08 promotion playoffs. In summer 2009 he was re-signed by

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in joint-ownership bid for €550,000 (exchanged with Michael Cia and Dario Bergamelli for the same price) but after a poor half season, on 1 February 2010 loaned to

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; or , archaically ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione, River Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and e ...

. After this loan, Madonna returned to

, and played only 1 match in a whole season. In June 2011 Atalanta acquired Madonna outright for a peppercorn of €1,500 and sold Bergamelli, Cia and

Karamoko Cissé Karamoko Cissé (born 14 November 1988) is a Guinean footballer who plays as a forward. Cissé also holds Italian nationality. Biography Born in Guinea in 1988, Cissé moved with his family to Sorisole, Italy in 2000. Club career After spendin ...

for €500 each.Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe S.r.l. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2011
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/ref> After this unsuccessful season with the ''Dea'', he was moved to

Spezia Calcio Spezia Calcio is an Italian professional Association football, football club based in La Spezia, Liguria, currently competing in the Serie B. Spezia Calcio was founded in 1906 by the Swiss banker Hermann Hurni (or Hurny in some documents), who ...

in July 2011, initially in temporary deal. At the end of season he was signed by co-ownership deal for €250,000. The co-ownership was renewed in 2013 and again in 2014. On 11 October 2019 he joined

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, 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 ...

club

Giana Erminio Associazione Sportiva Giana Erminio S.r.l. is an Italian football club based in Gorgonzola, Lombardy. The team currently plays in Italy's . History The club was founded in 1909 as ''Unione Sportiva Argentia'', and later adopted the current name ...

until the end of the season.

Personal life

He is the son of

Armando Madonna Armando Madonna (born 5 July 1963) is an Italian football manager and former player. Career Playing A midfielder, Madonna made his professional debut in 1981 for Atalanta; he then spent five seasons with Piacenza before to return to Bergamo in 1 ...

, head coach of AlbinoLeffe,

Piacenza Piacenza (; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Piacenza, eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with more ...

and

Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 152,916 residents as of 2025. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn ...

References

External links

AIC profile (data by football.it)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Madonna, Nicola 1986 births Living people Footballers from Alzano Lombardo Italian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players SSD Virtus CiseranoBergamo 1909 players Atalanta BC players UC AlbinoLeffe players LR Vicenza players Spezia Calcio players Como 1907 players Calcio Padova players AS Giana Erminio players 21st-century Italian sportsmen