Simone Villanova (born 22 November 1984) is an Italian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting ...

. He played in

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...

for

Cittadella Cittadella ( vec, Sitadeła) is a medieval walled city in the province of Padua, northern Italy, founded in the 13th century as a military outpost of Padua. The surrounding wall has been restored and is in circumference with a diameter of around ...

Career

Born in

Valdobbiadene Valdobbiadene () is a town in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy. Valdobbiadene is a wine growing area. Just below the Alpine-Dolomite areas of Veneto, it provides a climate for a cool variety of grape (Glera). The Conegliano Valdobbiadene ar ...

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, Villanova started his career at Veneto club

. In 2003–04 season, he was loaned to

Internazionale Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter i ...

, ahead

Nathan Coe Nathan Coe (born 1 June 1984) is an English–Australian goalkeeper who currently plays for Australian club Bentleigh Greens. Club career The son of former National Soccer League and Australian under 23 goalkeeper Martin Coe, he was educate ...

Alex Cordaz Alex Cordaz (born 1 January 1983) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Inter Milan. Career Inter Milan Cordaz started his career at Inter Milan. In the 2001–02 season, he was the regular selection ahead of ...

(promoted to first team) and

Giacomo Bindi Giacomo Bindi (born 2 January 1987) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Early career Born in Siena, Tuscany, Bindi started his career at Arezzo the nearby province. In summer 2003, he joined Internazionale's ...

(promoted from ''Allievi Nazionali'' U-17 team) as first choice goalkeeper of ''Primavera'' Team (U20 Youth Team). In summer 2004, he left for

Bassano Virtus Bassano Virtus 55 Soccer Team S.p.A., commonly known as Bassano Virtus or just Bassano is a football club based in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto. The first team of the club was relocated to Vicenza in 2018 as L.R. Vicenza Virtus, while the youth ...

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

, helped the non-professional side promoted to

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 ...

. In the next season, Villanova played 31 matches for the newcomer and survived from relegation. He then returned to Cittadella and played as Andrea Pierobon's backup. In 2009–10 season, he became the first choice goalkeeper. Despite played 32 out of possible 42 Serie B in

2010–11 Serie B The 2010–11 Serie B (known as the Serie bwin for sponsorship reasons) is the seventy-ninth season since its establishment in 1929, and the first one under the rule of the new Lega Serie B. A total of 22 teams contest the league, 15 of which r ...

. He left the club as

free agent In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under contract at present but who is a ...

in 2011.

References

External links

Profile at Cittadella

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Villanova, Simone Italian footballers Serie B players A.S. Cittadella players Inter Milan players Bassano Virtus 55 S.T. players Association football goalkeepers People from Valdobbiadene 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from the Province of Treviso Footballers from Veneto