Davis Curiale (born 30 December 1987) is an Italian

association 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 striker.

Career

Club career

Curiale is the son of Sicilian parents originally from

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who emigrated to Germany in the 1980s. He started playing football at the age of 5 for local

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team SV Mülheim-Nord. Noted in 2004 by former

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and

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star Giovanni Montalbano, head coach of

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club Salemi at the time, during a summer beach soccer tournament in Campobello, he accepted to sign for the club, but left it soon after to join Campobello, another Eccellenza team, in November 2004. He scored nine goals for Campobello, helping them to win

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and ensure a historical first promotion to

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. From 2005 to 2007, he played for

''Primavera'', notably scoring 28 goals in the 2006–07 season with the Under-20 team, being instrumental in helping the ''rosanero'' youth team to reach the

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semi-final, then lost to

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. On 5 June 2007, Palermo loaned him out to

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in order to let him achieve some first team experience. With Samb, Curiale played a total of 29 matches, scoring nine goals, and being instrumental in the team's escape from relegation. Following his impressive experience with Sambenedettese, Curiale received some interest from a number of

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teams. In July 2008, Palermo and

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agreed a one-year loan for the young striker. As he did not manage to gain a regular first team place with Vicenza (only playing three games in the first half of the season), he returned to Palermo in January 2009 in order to be loaned to another team,

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, for the remainder of the season. Curiale started impressively his second playing experience in the Italian third tier, becoming instrumental in Ravenna's rise in the league table by scoring eight goals in eight matches before suffering a muscle injury that will keep him out for two months. Curiale then spent the 2009–10 season on loan to Serie B club

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; he made a total 20 appearances during the regular season, scoring three goals. In July 2010, he was sent out on loan again, this time to Serie B club

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; the club will also have an option to buy half of the player's registration rights at the end of the season. On 31 August 2011, he moved to

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. Later in January 2012 he joined Serie B club

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, but played only 14 games in one year with the club. He successively left to join

club

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in January 2013, and won promotion to Serie B with his new club in June 2014. In January 2015, he was signed by

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for €150,000.Frosinone Calcio S.r.l. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2015
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(in Italian) In August 2015, he moved to

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on loan. He scored 4 goals in 18 appearances before heading back to Trapani. On 28 September 2020, he joined

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on a two-year contract. On 31 January 2022, Curiale signed with Vibonese. In August 2022, he signed for Serie C club

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International career

Curiale played three games with the Italian under-20 team in March and April 2008. On 10 June 2022, Curiale became the first captain of the UEFA-unrecognized

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, playing a game against

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. He scored one of the four Sicilian goals.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curiale, Davis Sicily men's international footballers Italian men's footballers Palermo FC players US Sambenedettese players LR Vicenza players Ravenna FC players AS Cittadella players FC Crotone players US Grosseto 1912 players Frosinone Calcio players SSD FC Trapani 1905 players Catania FC players US Catanzaro 1929 players US Vibonese Calcio players ACR Messina players Serie B players Serie C players 1987 births People of Sicilian descent Living people Footballers from Cologne Men's association football forwards