Amedeo Calliari (born 12 April 1988) is a former Italian professional

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who played as a

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Career

Youth career

Born in

Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier b ...

Trentino Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...

, Calliari started his career in the same province, for Mori–St.Stefano. In 2002, he was signed by

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side Chievo and spent 6 seasons at their youth teams. Calliari was in Chievo's Primavera under-20 team in 2007–08 season.

Lumezzane & Triestina

He graduated from the youth team in June and loaned to Italian Lega Pro 1st Division (3rd highest level) club Lumezzane along with first team member

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in July 2008. On 26 June 2009, Calliari (for €325,000AC Chievo-Verona S.R.L. Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 ) along with ex-''Primavera'' teammate

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(€425,000) were sold to

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side

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club has been re-established several times in its history. As of the ...

in co-ownership deals . Co-currently, Chievo signed

Dario D'Ambrosio Dario D'Ambrosio (born 9 September 1988) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for club Carrarese. Career Along with his twin brother Danilo, D'Ambrosio started his career at Fiorentina's Primavera team. In 2007-08 season, he left ...

(€340,000) and Marcello Cottafava (€420,000) in co-ownership deals. On 9 July 2009, Chievo loaned D'Ambrosio and Cottafava back to Triestina, and Calliari and Brighenti were loaned to Lumezzane and

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of Italian Lega Pro 1st Division respectively. After Triestina re-admitted to Serie B in August 2010, Triestina bought back Cottafava for €210,000 and Chievo bought Calliari back for €220,000 (while D'Ambrosio and Brighenti already back to their original club in January 2010). He was loaned to Lumezzane for a third time on 6 August 2010. It is because Calliari's contract had a nominal accounting value of €440,000 (purely through player swap), which Chievo chose to amortize it proportionally to contract length, instead of immediately write-down the inflated residual value. However, Chievo had write-down €506,695 for the sale of Brighenti in June 2011.

South Tyrol

On 31 August 2011 he joined

South Tyrol it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol , settlement_type = Autonomous province , image_skyline = , image_alt ...

, the team form his home autonomous region Trentino – South Tyrol.

Monza

On 22 August 2012 Calliari was sold to

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...

in a co-ownership deal for just €500; Chievo also write-down the residual value of €114,000. On 20 February 2014 he was released.

Serie D

In October 2014 he was signed by Mori St.Stefano.

References

External links

Profile at Football.it

Profile at Lumezzane
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