Roberto Massaro (born 26 July 1983) is an

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former

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who played as a

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Career

Born in

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, southern Italy, Massaro started his professional career at

AC Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fo ...

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. He played his only match at Serie A on 10 June 2001. After the bankrupt of ''La Viola'', he joined

Parma AC Parma Calcio 1913 (), commonly known as Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, which competes in the Serie B, the second tier of Italian football. ''Parma Football Club'' was originally founded in Decembe ...

in August 2002. In summer 2003 he was included in a 6-men swap, which Massaro (for €2M),

Filippo Porcari Filippo Porcari (born 28 April 1984) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Porcari played over 100 matches at the Italian third highest level. He followed Novara promoted from the third division to the first in 2 successive ...

and Luca Ferretti of Parma swap for Davide Favaro,

Marco Donadel Marco Donadel (born 21 April 1983) is an Italian football coach and a former midfielder. Club career Milan Donadel is a youth product of Milan, playing for the youth side between 1998 and 2002, winning the Torneo di Viareggio in 1999 and 2001 ...

(for €2M), and

Mirko Stefani Mirko Stefani (born 25 January 1984) is an Italian association football, football coach (sports), coach and former player who played as a Defender (association football), defender. Stefani has played once in Serie A and over 100 matches in Lega ...

of Milan, all in co-ownership deal. He then spent 4 seasons on loan to clubs in

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 ...

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 ...

and

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 ...

. In June 2007, Milan got full registration rights for another €90,000, but Massaro then transferred to

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

. Since January 2008 he played for

Olbia Olbia (, ; sc, Terranoa; sdn, Tarranoa) is a city and commune of 60,346 inhabitants (May 2018) in the Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called ''Olbia'' in the Roman age, ...

, but just played once. In June 2008 Olbia signed him on a free transfer.

References

External links

San Marino Calcio Profile

FIGC
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