Giacomo Di Donato (born 8 February 1988) is a former Italian footballer.

Biography

He was born in

Alcamo Alcamo (; scn, Àrcamu, italic=no) is the fourth-largest town and commune of the Province of Trapani, Sicily, with a population of 44.925 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilo ...

, in the

Province of Trapani Trapani ( it, Provincia di Trapani, scn, Pruvincia di Tràpani; officially ''Libero consorzio comunale di Trapani'') is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, southern Italy. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it ...

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, and started his career at

Campobello di Mazara Campobello di Mazara ( scn, Campubbeddu) is a town in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. Its inhabitants are scattered in the town center and the minor seaside ''frazioni'' of Tre Fontane and Torretta Granitola, populated mostly ...

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: in October 2005 he was signed by another southern Italy side

Cosenza Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...

, also from Group I. Di Donato was spotted by another

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team

Vigor Lamezia Vigor Lamezia is an Football in Italy, Italian association football club, based in Lamezia Terme, Calabria. Vigor Lamezia currently plays in Promozione, 6th level of the Italian football league system. History The club was founded in 1919 and ...

at the end of season and in July 2008 Serie A club

Chievo Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige. It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...

signed him from Lamezia; he also remained in

Lamezia Terme Lamezia Terme (), commonly called Lamezia, is an Italian city and ''comune'' of 70,452 inhabitants (2013), in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region. Geography Lamezia is located on the eastern border of the coastal plain commonly cal ...

for

2008–09 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione The 2008–09 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season was the thirty-first football (soccer) league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the first since the renaming from Serie C2 to Lega Pro. It was divid ...

. In June 2009,

signed Luca Rigoni outright from

Vicenza Calcio L.R. Vicenza, commonly referred to as Vicenza, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, they became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953, then Vicenza Calcio from 1990 ...

, however Chievo did not wish to pay anything to Vicenza. Vicenza, instead, signed Di Donato for an exponential €1 million and Rigoni joined Chievo for €1 million, which the same fee he left year ago.Vicenza Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 The deal was more a pure financial trick than a logical sports decision. (in fact in Italian accounting,

already booked the transfer

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of €2 million instead of €1 million in 2007–08

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(closing on 30 June each year), as another half as special co-ownership asset. if the remaining 50 per cent sold below the accounting price, the club would have had financial cost in that financial season). Thus, Rigoni was sold under the previous accounting price of €1M; and in accounting the

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for the new signing (Di Donato) was amortized proportionally to player contract (5-year), which the supposed €1 million loss in 2008–09 now extended to €200,000 a season from 2009 to 2014 and zero in 2008–09, but deducting wage (which Vicenza saved a season by lending) and

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. Moreover, Chievo also booked an exponential player profit on Di Donato in 2008–09 accounts. On 1 August 2009 Di Donato was farmed to

Valenzana Valenzana Mado is an Italian football club, based in Valenza, Piedmont. Currently it plays in Promozione Piedmont and Aosta Valley. History Valenzana Mado The club was founded in 2012 after the merger of Valenzana Calcio and G.S. Mado. It ...

along with Alessandro Lorello, however, he ran out of potential and only played 3 times. Di Donato had to play for the reserve in the second half of the season. On 1 July 2010 he returned to Vicenza and became a ghost player. Vicenza would have suffered a great loss if they immediately write-down his flopped value on 1 July 2010 (€800,000). Instead, Di Donato remained on the balance sheet (and balance sheet only) for another year. During the 2011–12 season Vicenza finally write-down the contract value back dated to 1 July 2011 for €600,000.Vicenza Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2012

Notes

Sources

* *Vicenza Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 (Italian) *"UFFICIALE: scambio tra Chievo e Vicenza" (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. 24 June 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2012. *"Campionato "D. Berretti": Spezia-Valenzana 3-0" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 13 April 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014. *Vicenza Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2012 (Italian)

External links

Football.it Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Di Donato, Giacomo Italian men's footballers AS Cosenza Calcio players Vigor Lamezia players AC ChievoVerona players LR Vicenza players Valenzana Mado players Men's association football defenders People from Alcamo 1988 births Living people Footballers from Sicily Sportspeople from the Province of Trapani