Ferdinando Sforzini

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Ferdinando Sforzini
Personal information
Date of birth (1984-12-04) 4 December 1984
Place of birthTivoli, Italy
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current clubPescara
Number33
Youth career
000?–2003Napoli
2002–2003→ Lazio (loan)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2003–2005Sassuolo38(9)
2005–2011Udinese0(0)
2005–2006→ Verona (loan)35(5)
2006–2007→ Modena (loan)30(5)
2007–2008→ Vicenza (loan)14(2)
2008→ Ravenna (loan)21(9)
2008–2009→ Grosseto (loan)18(3)
2009→ Avellino (loan)12(7)
2009–2010→ Bari (loan)8(0)
2010→ CFR Cluj (loan)3(0)
2011→ Grosseto (loan)20(8)
2011–2013Grosseto58(30)
2013–Pescara9(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 May 2013.
† Appearances (Goals).

Ferdinando Sforzini (born 4 December 1984) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Pescara Calcio in the Serie A..[1]

Career

Early career

A tall forward, Sforzini started his career off with the youth system of Napoli and was loaned out to Lazio from Napoli's youth system in 2002.

Ferdinando Sforzini graduated from Lazio youth system in 2003 and immediately sold, to Sassuolo.

At Sassuolo he impressed, scoring 10 goals in 29 appearances in 2004–05 Serie C2 season.

Udinese

After impressing with U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, he was transferred to Serie A club Udinese Calcio in June 2005.

Ferdinandos Sforzini remained at Udine for 2 months, but loaned out to Serie B side Verona in order to gain more experience in August 2005.[2] In his season with Verona, Ferdinando Sforzini managed 5 goals in 35 Serie B appearances, which mainly as a substitutes player, but also made 16 league starts.

For the 2006–2007 season, Udinese opted to again loan out the player in July 2006, however this time, it was to Modena, another Serie B club. With Modena, Ferdinandos Sforzini scored 5 goals again, in 30 league appearances (started 17 times). On 1 July 2006 Sforzini returned to Udinese, however, he again was loaned out soon later.

In July 2007, Ferdinandos Sforzini transferred to Vicenza for yet another Serie B season.[3] With the club, Ferdinandos Sforzini made 14 league appearances (half of them as starting XI) in his six-month stay, scoring 2 goals. For the second half of the 2007–2008 season, Udinese loaned out the 23-year old Sforzini to Ravenna, a club struggling to avoid relegation from the Serie B.[4] In the latter half of the season, Ferdinandos Sforzini scored an impressive 9 goals in 21 league appearances for Ravenna Calcio, but it was not enough to save them from relegation.

Ferdinandos Sforzini was again loaned out into the Serie B – this time with Grosseto. In his six-month loan period with Grossseto, Sforzini was a regular starter at the start of season, appearing 18 times (10 of them as starter) and scoring 3 goals in Serie B. In January 2009, he swapped places with Alessandro Pellicori of Avellino. With relegation frightening Avellino Sforzini impressed, hitting good form and scoring 7 goals in just 12 Serie B appearances.

After hitting good form with Avellino, Sforzini returned to Udinese on 1 July 2009, and received the call-up to the pre-season camp.[5] But he was loaned out again, this time to Serie B champion A.S. Bari, the Serie A newcomer.[6] He was the starting forward along with Vitaly Kutuzov in the opening match of Serie A, a shocking 1–1 draw with defending champion Internazionale. But in the next Serie A match the coach Giampiero Ventura preferred Riccardo Meggiorini as starting forward to partner with Kutuzov.

Sforzini was further hit by left leg injury soon after,[7] At first he would be rested a month[8] but hit by flu in November.[9] Sforzini then trained separately for ongoing injury.[10]

After Kutuzov's out of season injury, Bari signed José Ignacio Castillo, and Sforzini was call-up by Ventura several time to as an extra cover for their starting forwards Barreto, Meggiorini and Castillo. He played his return match on 30 January 2010, substituted Castillo at the second half.[11] He made a further 5 Serie A appearances as substitute.

On 1 July 2010, Sforzini returned to Udinese again, and played for Udinese B team (composite of players that pending loan) in pre-season friendlies.[12][13][14] On 25 August 2010, he was loaned to Romanian side CFR Cluj.[15][16]

During the 2011 winter transfer market he was transferred to Italian Serie B team U.S. Grosseto on loan with option to sign definitely.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Carriera di Fernando Sforzini". Tutto Calciatori. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
  2. ↑ "CALCIOMERCATO, FERDINANDOS SFORZINI ALL'HELLAS VERONA". Hellas Verona FC (in Italian). 24 August 2005. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Arriva Ferdinando Sforzini". Vicenza Calcio (in Italian). 20 July 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  4. ↑ "Mercato: dall'Udinese arriva Ferdinandos Sforzini". Ravenna Calcio (in Italian). 17 January 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Raduno Udinese: tutti i nomi di Marino". Tutto Mercato Web (in Italian). 6 July 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  6. ↑ "Mercato, il Bari prende Sforzini". AS Bari (in Italian). 7 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  7. ↑ "Si ferma Ferdinando Sforzini". AS Bari (in Italian). 2 September 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  8. ↑ "Sforzini, operazione riuscita". AS Bari (in Italian). 7 September 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  9. ↑ "Allenamento, martedì 4 novembre". AS Bari (in Italian). 4 November 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  10. ↑ "Doppia seduta per il Bari". AS Bari (in Italian). 2 January 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  11. ↑ "Bari-Palermo: 4–2". AS Bari (in Italian). 30 January 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  12. ↑ "UDINESE B – SELEZIONE ARTA CEDARCHIS 10–0 (8–0)". Udinese Calcio (www.udinese.it). 28 July 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  13. ↑ "UDINESE-PORTOGRUARO SUMMAGA 2–0". Udinese Calcio (in Italian) (www.udinese.it). 5 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  14. ↑ "Amichevole: A.S.D. Torviscosa-Udinese 1–5". Udinese Calcio (in Italian) (www.udinese.it). 19 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  15. ↑ "Sforzini ceduto al Cluj". Udinese Calcio (in Italian) (www.udinese.it). 25 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  16. ↑ "Stiri – Bun venit, Ferdinando Sforzini". CFR Cluj (in Romanian). 25 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. 
  17. ↑ "Più qualità nel nuovo Grifone" [More quality in the new Gryphon]. US Grosseto FC (in Italian) (www.biancorossi.it). 7 January 2011. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011. 

External links

Delfino Pescara 1936 – current squad
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