Giuseppe Rizza (8 April 1987 – 6 July 2020) was an
Italian footballer who played as a
defender.
Club career
Juventus
Rizza went through the
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
youth system, and, after graduating, was sold to
Juve Stabia
Società Sportiva Juve Stabia is an Italian football club based in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania.
Juve Stabia currently plays in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football system.
History
The football in Castellammare di Stabia
From St ...
in the former Italian
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 ...
in a
co-ownership deal. In June 2008, his co-ownership was resolved, and he returned to Juventus for €50,000,
but, along with several other youth players, was loaned out to
Serie B teams. Rizza, along with
Francesco Volpe
Francesco Massimiliano Volpe (born 3 March 1986) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Piacenza.
Football career
Volpe joined Juventus along with Domenico Criscito in 2004 in co-ownership deal, for €1.9M (both priced €1.9M i ...
, was sold on co-ownership deals to
A.S. Livorno Calcio, who had recently been relegated to Serie B following a poor
Serie A campaign. Rizza made 7 league appearances for Livorno during the
2008–09 Serie B
The 2008–09 Serie B season was the seventy-seventh since its establishment. A total of 22 teams will contest the league, 15 of which will be returning from the 2007–08 season, four of which will have been promoted from Serie C1 (now Lega P ...
campaign.
A.S. Livorno
Rizza was sold permanently by Juventus in June 2009, for an undisclosed fee, with Juventus profiting €86,000. Upon his permanent transfer to Livorno, Rizza was loaned out to
A.C. Arezzo in July,
Death
Giuseppe Rizza died in Catania, Italy, on 6 July 2020, at the age of 33. His death was due to complications from a ruptured
brain aneurysm.
References
External links
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1987 births
2020 deaths
People from Noto
Italian men's footballers
Serie C players
SS Arezzo players
US Livorno 1915 players
SS Juve Stabia players
US Pergolettese 1932 players
ASG Nocerina players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Sicily
Deaths from intracranial aneurysm
Neurological disease deaths in Sicily
Sportspeople from the Province of Syracuse