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2016–17 Bologna F.C. 1909 Season
The 2016–17 season was Bologna Football Club 1909 Bologna Football Club 1909, commonly referred to as Bologna (), is an Italian professional football club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. The club have won seven top-flight titles, two C ...'s second season back in Serie A, after the club's relegation at the end of the 2013–14 season. Season review The club competed in Serie A, finishing 15th, and in the Coppa Italia, where they were eliminated in the round of 16. Players Squad information Lega Serie A had limited the squad to the maximum of 25 players, including at least 4 home grown players and 4 additional club-trained players (marked as ''CT''). However, under-21 players (born 1995 or after in this season; marked as ''U21'') were not limited. Mirante was left out from the squad list due to injury from September to 20 November, plus one unknown player was not registered (Acqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna F
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Krafth
Emil Henry Kristoffer Krafth (born 2 August 1994) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Sweden national team. Developed at Lagans, Krafth had played for Östers, Helsingborg and Bologna before joining Newcastle United in 2019. He also had a loan spell at Amiens. Early life Krafth was born in Ljungby, Kronoberg County. Growing up, he began playing football, coming from his parents, Pelle and Pernilla, who were both footballers, and joined his then mother's club, Lagans AIK, at five years old. Krafth was coached by his parents throughout his time at Lagans AIK. He initially started out playing as a defensive midfield and striker positions before switching to the defender positions, eventually playing in the right–back position. Krafth has a sister and a brother. When he was fifteen years old, Krafth moved out of his parents’ house to Växjö, attending a football high school there and said it was easy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Petković
Bruno Petković (; born 16 September 1994) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatia national team. Early career Petković was born in Metković, Croatia. His father Jakov Petković hails from Metković and his mother Ruža Nižić is a Herzegovinian Croat from Crveni Grm near Ljubuški. His childhood football idols were Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimović. He began his youth career with his hometown clubs ONK Metković and NK Neretva, before he went to Dinamo Zagreb in 2007. He remained there until 4 September 2009, when he transferred across town, to the youth academy of city-rivals NK Zagreb. In the next two seasons, he represented NK HAŠK (2010–11) and Hrvatski Dragovoljac (2011–12), prior to his transfer to Italy, with Serie A side, Catania. Club career Calcio Catania On 27 August 2012, Petković officially transferred to Calcio Catania. The transfer fee involved was undisclosed, though Petković was inserted dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Maietta
Domenico Maietta (born 3 August 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career Although Maietta was once included in the Serie A rosters of Juventus and Perugia in the early 2000s, he did not make his Serie A debut until 2013, after being promoted with Hellas Verona. He made his Serie B debut with Triestina during the 2002–03 season. Maietta missed 3 weeks in 2016–17 season. On 1 September 2020 Empoli Empoli () is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, about southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The comm ... announced his retirement from playing and that he joined the club staff. References External links * Hellas Verona F.C. Official Player Profile 1982 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Cosenza Men's association football defenders Italian men's footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umar Sadiq
Umar Sadiq Mesbah (born 2 February 1997) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Nigeria national team. Sadiq formerly represented the Nigeria national under-23 team and was an important member of the squad that won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Club career Early years Born in Kaduna, Sadiq started playing football on the streets of his hometown at an early age. He later played for local team Kusa Boys, before joining the Future of Africa Football Academy and finally the Football College Abuja. In June 2013, Sadiq traveled with FCA to Croatia and participated at the Kvarnerska Rivijera youth tournament. He finished as the competition's top scorer and helped his team become the champions. Spezia Following his promising performances in Croatia, Sadiq was acquired by Italian club Spezia. He failed to make any first-team appearances, but played regularly for the youth setup. In the 2014–15 season, Sad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Helander
Filip Viktor Helander (born 22 April 1993) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Scottish Premiership side Rangers and the Sweden national team. Club career Malmö Helander made his Allsvenskan debut in a match against Syrianska on 17 October 2011. Helander played the first matches beside Pontus Jansson in defence before being replaced by Daniel Andersson after the second round of matches. On 17 July 2012, Helander signed a first team contract with Malmö until the end of the 2015 season. When Andersson played less and less after the summer break Helander established himself in the starting lineup and finished the season as a regular starter in the defence. Helander played a total of 12 league matches for Malmö during the 2012 season. The league title winning 2013 season proved to be the real breakthrough season for Helander as he played 18 matches for the club. He was injured in the early stages of the season and was replaced in the starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfred Donsah
Godfred Donsah (born 7 June 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor. Club career Born in Accra, Donsah made his senior debuts with local DC United Agogo before signing a contract with Palermo. Before signing with Palermo, he had trials at A.S. Roma, but nothing came of it. He joined Verona in summer 2013. Donsah made his first team – and Serie A – debut on 19 April 2014, coming on as a substitute in a 2–1 win at Atalanta. On 17 July 2014, he joined Cagliari for a fee of €2.16 million.Cagliari Calcio S.p.A. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2015, PDF purchased from CCIAAbr>(blog that contain id and password to download a copy)(in Italian) On 24 August 2015, Bologna announced the signing of Donsah on loan with a conditional obligation to buy if Donsah made his debut, for a total fee of €7 million (€2.5M+€4.5M). Donsah signed a four-year contract.Bologna F.C. 1909 S.p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ádám Nagy
Ádám Nagy (born 17 June 1995) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Pisa and the Hungary national team. He began his career at Ferencváros, making his professional debut for the reserves in August 2013 and for the first team in May 2015. Nagy won eight caps and scored one goal for Hungary at youth level. He made his full international debut against Northern Ireland on 7 September 2015 coming on as a substitute, and was chosen for UEFA Euro 2016. Career Early years Nagy was born in Budapest, Hungary. After starting his career at Goldball '94 FC, he played for Tabáni Spartacus SKE and Szent István SE. In 2008, he had a brief spell at the futsal club Aramis Sport Egyesület. At the age of 16, he went to La Manga Club to join the football academy created by English football development academy VisionPro Sports Institute. In January 2012, the academy moved to Portugal forming the VSI Rio Maior Football Club, and established themselves in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahima Mbaye
Ibrahima Mbaye (born 19 November 1994) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga III club CFR II Cluj. Club career Mbaye was born in Guédiawaye, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal. He joined youth football academy Étoile Lusitana before being signed by Italian club Internazionale in summer 2010. Mbaye formally joined Inter in January 2011 following his 16th birthday and entered the Inter U17 youth squad. In 2011–12, Mbaye was promoted to Inter Primavera, the club's reserve team coached by Andrea Stramaccioni. The primavera team won the 2011–12 NextGen Series under Stramaccioni and the league under Daniele Bernazzani, after Stramaccioni was promoted to first team coach. Stramaccioni then promoted Mbaye to the first team on 28 April 2012. However, the footballer was initially excluded from the team line-up, including the bench. In July 2012, Stramaccioni named Mbaye in Inter's pre-season training camp. The squad consisted of 26 players who we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Di Francesco
Federico Di Francesco (born 14 June 1994) is an Italian professional association football, footballer who plays as a winger (association football), winger for club U.S. Lecce, Lecce. Club career Pescara Di Francesco began his career on Delfino Pescara 1936, Pescara's youth categories. In the 2012–13 season, he was the captain of ''Primavera'' team, and was called up by manager Cristian Bucchi to the first team. On 30 March 2013, Di Francesco made his professional debut, playing the last 3 minutes in a 3–0 away loss against Parma F.C., Parma. Parma In August Di Francesco joined Parma F.C., Parma in a co-ownership (football), co-ownership deal for €500, and was subsequently loaned to A.S. Gubbio 1910, Gubbio. Parma subsidized Gubbio €100,000. In January 2014 he returned to Pescara, but in a loan deal. In June 2014 Parma signed him outright for an undisclosed fee. On 8 August 2014, he left for U.S. Cremonese. On 25 June 2015, Di Francesco became a free agent after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Verdi
Simone Verdi (; born 12 July 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Como. Club career Early career Verdi started playing football with amateur club Audax Travacò, before joining Milan at the age of 11. He made his professional debut for the club, aged 17, in a Coppa Italia game against Novara, on 13 January 2010. He then made his second appearance two weeks later, in the quarter-final against Udinese, which Milan lost 0–1. While playing for the under-20 squad, the young striker scored his first goal at the San Siro in the return leg of the Primavera Cup final, on 14 April 2010. Milan went on to win the match 2–0, as Verdi also made an assist, and secured the trophy 3–1 on aggregate. Here, he was nicknamed ''Verdinho'', as his playing style resembled that of a Brazilian. In May 2010, Milan CEO Adriano Galliani announced that Verdi, along with three other teammates, was expected to join the senior team permanently for the 2010– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
