Davide Sinigaglia (born 29 July 1981) is an Italian

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who plays as a

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for ASD Cellatica. Sinigaglia had made over 200 games in Lega Pro but only a handful of games in Serie A and Serie B.

Club career

Sinigaglia was a youth product of

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. He played his first Serie A match on 7 February 1999, Inter 5–1 Empoli. He was a substitute of Nicola Ventola. Coach

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never used Sinigaglia again due to his young age.

Ternana

Sinigaglia was jointly contracted with

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and Inter from 2001–02 season until June 2003; Ternana bought Sinigaglia and Cristian Lizzori outright from Inter for a peppercorn of

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500 each in June 2003. Ternana bought half of Sinigaglia and Lizzori for a total of 1

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lire (€516,457) in July 2001 and June 2002 respectively. Sinigaglia were loaned to Serie C1 and Serie C2 teams during his whole contract with Ternana, namely Veneto club

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and Lombard club Monza. Sinigaglia was then joint contracted by Ternana and

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. Sinigaglia scored his career high of 15 goals for the Lombard club in

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. In June 2004 the joint-contract was renewed. On 31 August 2004 he was signed by Arezzo outright, from both Lumezzane and Ternana.

Arezzo

He played his first ever Serie B season for Arezzo in 11 games, before moving on loan to

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of Serie A in January 2005 as a player to avoid fall back to the second division. He was then loaned by

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in 2005, to help the club to win promotion back to Serie B. He was called back in January 2006, for a chance to get the ticket of promotion playoff to Serie A for Arezzo, but failed. In summer 2006, he was moved to

of Serie C1, and one year later for another in the same level,

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on 11 July 2007.

Novara

Sinigaglia made 56 appearances in the third tier for Novara. Both seasons the club failed to win major trophy nor promotion to the second division.

Cesena

In 2009, he was swapped with Simone Motta of

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, the newcomer of Serie B. Sinigaglia was valued €500,000 and Motta for €720,000 (thus only €220,000 cash was involved). Sinigaglia signed a 2-year contract. In his third Serie B season, he only scored once in 7 games. In January 2010 Sinigaglia was loaned to Lanciano of the third tier. Lanciano finished as the ninth of group B. In the same month Cesena promoted to Serie A as the runner-up. Sinigaglia did not have any chance in 2010–11 Serie A, his fourth Serie A season.

Ternana

In January 2011 he was transferred to

for free. After winning promotion to Serie B, the contract was extended along with forward

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Monza

On 2 September 2013 Sinigaglia was signed by Monza. In August 2013 Sinigaglia also acquired the license to become a youth team coach.

Reggiana

On 2 August 2014 Sinigaglia was signed by Reggiana in a 2-year contract. On 2 February 2015 he was signed by Giana Erminio in a temporary deal.

Pistoiese

Sinigaglia was signed by

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on 31 August 2015, in a definitive deal from Reggiana.

Grosseto & Parma

On 9 September 2016 Sinigaglia was signed by Serie D club

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. On 5 February 2017 Sinigaglia was signed by

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on a free transfer.

AC Ardor Lazzate

Ahead of the 2019/20 season, Sinigaglia joined AC Ardor Lazzate.

Atletico Castagneto

In December 2019, Sinigaglia moved to Promozione Lombardia club ASD Atletico Castagneto.Profile at TuttoCampo
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International career

Sinigaglia was a member of Italy under-18 team in 2000 UEFA European Under-18 Championship Intermediary round. (now renamed to under-19 with same age limit, U18 at the start of season or U19 at the end of season) Sinigaglia also played in

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(now renamed to under-17 with same age limit) . Italy used a mixed 1980 and 1981 born players for the tournament. Sinigaglia finished as the runner-up at

1998 UEFA European Under-16 Championship The 1998 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the 16th edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. Scotland hosted the championship, during 26 April – 8 May 1998. 16 teams entered the competition, and Republic of Ireland defea ...

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