Riccardo Maniero (born 26 November 1987) is an Italian

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who plays as a forward for club Turris.

Career

Juventus and loans

Maniero began his youth career with Juventus and was promoted to the Primavera reserve team in 2005. As a player of the under-20 team, Maniero also received some call ups by

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for the senior side in various

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and Serie B matches, specifically in matches against AlbinoLeffe, Lecce, and

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, appearing as an unused substitute on the bench. This was the season when Juventus were relegated to the second division for the first time in their history following the Calciopoli scandal, and Maniero was eventually part of the team that led Juventus back to Serie A that year. In June 2007, Maniero was not part of

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's first team plans and so, he was loaned out to

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, together with fellow Juventus youth player

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. With Ascoli, Maniero managed a single goal in 21 league appearances, and following his loan stint with Ascoli, he was again loaned out to another Serie B club Bari, along with fellow Juventus ''loanees'' Davide Lanzafame, Raffaele Bianco, and Rej Volpato. While Lanzafame and Bianco established themselves well with the club, Maniero failed to settle and gain regular action, as the attacker made zero official appearances in six months with the ''biancorossi''. Following his disappointing spell with Bari, Maniero was sub-loaned out to Italian third division side,

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. During his loan period with Lumezzane, Maniero made his first 13 league appearances, and he also scored 2 goals. In July 2009, another third division club Arezzo officially announced the engagement of Maniero. Maniero had a successful season with the Lega Pro Prima Divisione side, establishing himself as a starter and scoring 12 goals in 31 league appearances.

Pescara

In August 2010 Maniero joined

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ahead of the 2010–11 Serie B campaign in co-ownership deal, for €450,000.Delfino Pescara 1936 Srl ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2011 (in Italian)
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in temporary deal from Juve. Maniero, however, failed to score regularly in Serie B. On 31 August 2012 he left for Serie B newcomer

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after Maniero was excluded from Pescara's Serie A plan. Ternana also got midfielder

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and defender Riccardo Brosco from Pescara on the same day. On 19 June 2013 the co-ownership between Pescara and Juventus were terminated, which saw Maniero now 100% under Pescara's contract for free as well as Del Papa under Juve for €100,000.

Catania

On 14 January 2015 he was signed by

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. He wore no.7 shirt for his new team, vacated by Marcelinho. Catania was expelled (relegated) from

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due to a match-fixing scandal.

Bari

On 31 August 2015 Maniero was signed by Serie B club Bari.

Novara

On 4 August 2017 Maniero was signed by another Serie B club

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Return to Pescara

On 18 July 2019, he returned to

Avellino

On 11 September 2020 he signed a 3-year contract with Avellino.

References

External links

National Team Archive
of FIGC
Lega Serie B profile

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maniero, Riccardo 1987 births Living people Footballers from Naples Italian footballers Association football forwards Serie B players Serie C players Juventus F.C. players Ascoli Calcio 1898 F.C. players S.S.C. Bari players S.S. Arezzo players F.C. Lumezzane V.G.Z. A.S.D. players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Ternana Calcio players Catania S.S.D. players Novara F.C. players Cosenza Calcio players U.S. Avellino 1912 players S.S. Turris Calcio players Italy youth international footballers