Giovanni Martina (born 20 January 1987) is an Italian

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 le ...

who plays for Bassano.

Biography

Born in

Vittorio Veneto Vittorio Veneto is a city and ''comune'' situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities: Alpago ( BL), Belluno ...

, the

Province of Treviso The Province of Treviso ('' it, Provincia di Treviso'') is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Treviso. The province is surrounded by Belluno in the north, Vicenza in the west, Padua in southwest, Venice in the so ...

, Martina started his career at

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

. In his last year with Treviso's under-20 youth team, he also played 3

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

games. In the first game he replaced

Gianni Guigou Gianni Bismark Guigou Martínez (born 22 February 1975 in Nueva Palmira) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a midfielder. Career He started his career in Nacional, where he played from 1994 to 2000, winning the Uruguayan league titl ...

in the 63rd minute on 8 October 2006, drawing 0–0 with

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

. In July 2007 he was loaned to

Pizzighettone Pizzighettone ( Pizzighettonese: ) is a ''comune'' of the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy. The main population centre is located on the river Adda and is divided into two parts: Pizzighettone on the east bank and Gera on the ...

along with Eros Bagnara. On 1 July 2008 Martina returned to

but only played 2 times in Serie B, which the team relegated and then bankrupted. On 5 August 2009 he joined Bassano on free transfer. He played a career high of 13 games, and in June his contract was extended. That season despite finished seventh in the Group B of

2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione The 2009–10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season was the thirty-second football league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the second since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It was divided into tw ...

, the team promoted to ''Prima Divisione'' to fill the vacancies by the bankrupted teams. He only played 4 times in his maiden ''Prima Divisione'' season before moved to fellow ''Prima Divisione'' team

Viareggio Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city within the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as ...

(but from another group, Group B), in exchange with forward Cristian Longobardi. he was the understudy of Nicolò Brighenti; just played four times: started once as right-back (but sent off at first half), replacing centre-back Lorenzo Fiale once and left-back Davide Bertolucci twice respectively.

References

External links

Football.it Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martina, Giovanni Italian men's footballers Serie B players Treviso FBC 1993 players AS Pizzighettone players Bassano Virtus 55 ST players ASD Viareggio Calcio players Men's association football fullbacks Sportspeople from Vittorio Veneto 1987 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Treviso