Federico Viviani (born 19 October 1981) is an Italian

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. Viviani made 280 league appearances in Italian Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2, as well as 70 appearances in Serie D, the top division of non fully professional football. However, Viviani never made his debut in Serie A, the Italian top division.

Biography

Youth career

Born in

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, Viviani started his career at

. He made his

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

debut on 10 January 1999, replacing

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at half-time. In 2001–02 he left for

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

club Cascina.

Lega Pro clubs

In 2003–04 he returned to fully professional for Sansovino. In January 2006 he was spotted by

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team

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, which signed him in co-ownership deal and bought the remain 50% registration rights in June. However, he left for

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

club

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. In January 2007 he returned to Sansovino and winning the relegation "play-out" against Boca San Lazzaro, secured a place in

2007–08 Serie C2 The 2007–08 Serie C2 season was the thirtieth football (soccer) league season of Italian Serie C2 since its establishment in 1978 . It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 2007 to May 2008, and the playoff phas ...

. As Arezzo relegated to Serie C1 in 2007, he was sold to fellow third division club

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in August.

Pisa & Crotone

In January 2008 he was re-signed by Serie B team Pisa. He only made 5 starts in

2007–08 Serie B The 2007–08 Serie B regular season is the seventy-sixth since its establishment. It started on August 25, 2007, and ended with the promotion playoff final on June 15, 2008. At the end of the year, three teams were promoted to Serie A, the fir ...

and played 37 games in the next season. Pisa relegated in 2009 and bankrupted. He then signed by Lega Pro Prima Divisione (ex–Serie C1) club

Taranto Taranto (, also ; ; nap, label= Tarantino, Tarde; Latin: Tarentum; Old Italian: ''Tarento''; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important com ...

. In January 2010 he returned to Serie B for the third time, for

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Return to Lega Pro

On 20 August 2011 he was signed by

Alessandria Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin. Alessandria ...

. On 31 January 2014 Viviani was released.

Career statistics

;Note: :¹ 4 games in

2005–06 Serie C2 The 2005–06 Serie C2 was the football league season of Italian Serie C2 for the years 2005 and 2006. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from August 28, 2005 to May 7, 2006, and the playoff phase. Once the regular seaso ...

promotion play-off :² The player arrived the club after the club was eliminated from the competitions :³ 2 games in

2006–07 Serie C2 The 2006–07 Serie C2 was the football (soccer) league season of Italian Serie C2 for the years 2006 and 2007. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 3, 2006 to May 13, 2007 and the playoff phase. Once the regul ...

relegation "play-out" :⁴ No statistics for '' Coppa Italia Serie D'' and ''

Coppa Italia Lega Pro Coppa Italia Serie C ( it, Serie C Italian Cup), formerly named Coppa Italia Lega Pro, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie C in Italian football first held in 1972. Format There are a total of six rounds in the c ...

'' (prior 2007) :⁵ Note 1 to 4

Honours

* ''Serie C2'': 1999

References

External links

Football.it Profile

Lega Serie B Profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Viviani, Federico Italian men's footballers Serie B players Serie C players Pisa SC players AC Sansovino players SS Arezzo players SS Juve Stabia players SS Virtus Lanciano 1924 players Taranto FC 1927 players FC Crotone players US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players Men's association football central defenders Footballers from Pisa 1981 births Living people