Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva (born 31 July 1983) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for club

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Club career

Treviso

Born in

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, Brazil, Reginaldo started his career with Brazilian club

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. The club was associated with football agency

Pedrinho VRP Pedro Luís Vicençote (born 22 October 1957), best known as Pedrinho, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defender. He played for Palmeiras (1977–1981), Vasco da Gama (1981–1983 and 1986), Bangu (1987–1988) and in Italian ...

, which helped numbers of Brazilian footballers transferred to Italy. Reginaldo began his professional career with

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in 2001, and helped the club win

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from the third-tier

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league to the top-flight

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championship (also due to the relegation of

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, as well as the expel of Torino and Perugia due to their financial difficulties). On 27 August 2005,

club

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signed him outright (cash plus 50% registration rights of

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) from Treviso, but loaning Reginaldo back to the

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club immediately.

Fiorentina

Followed by the

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at the end of

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season, Reginaldo moved to Serie A club

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from Udinese for €1 million. He played 27 games and scored six goals for Fiorentina during the

2006–07 Serie A The 2006–07 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 105th season of top-tier Italian football, the 75th in a round-robin tournament. It was scheduled to begin on 26 and 27 August, but was postponed to 2 September 200 ...

season, after which he moved to league rivals

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, signing a 5-year contract.

Parma

Reginaldo was signed by Parma for €4.5 million fee. He was one of the forward of the team along with

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and

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. Reginaldo started most of the game, and Corradi was the second. That season Parma used 4–3–3 or 4–5–1 formation, and Budan was the topscorer of 7 goals. Among the 4 goals were played along with Reginaldo. Parma were relegated at the end of the

2007–08 Serie A The 2007–08 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th season of top-tier Italian football, the 76th in a round-robin tournament. It started on 25 August 2007 and ended on 18 May 2008. Internazionale successfully ...

season, but Reginaldo stayed with the club for 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 ...

season. Having helped Parma win promotion for the

2009–10 Serie A The 2009–10 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 108th season of top-tier Italian football, the 78th in a round-robin tournament. There were three promoted teams from the Serie B, replacing the three teams that w ...

, he moved to Serie A rivals A.C. Siena, signing a contract on 27 June 2009 in a co-ownership deal.

Siena

In June 2009 Siena signed Reginaldo from Parma in a co-ownership deal for €2.5 million feeAC Siena SpA ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2009
PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A.
(in Italian) as well as

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in a definitive deal for €2.5 million fee,Parma FC Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 (in Italian) as part of a cashless swap that

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moved to Parma also in a co-ownership deal for €5 million fee. Reginaldo followed the team relegated to

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. Under

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, Reginaldo scored 7 goals and won promotion back to Serie A. The co-ownership also terminated in June 2011 as part of Galloppa and

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's deal. Parma got the full card of Galloppa for pre-agreed €5 million fee, while Siena got Reginaldo for pre-agreed €2.5M fee as well as Ângelo for €2.5 million fee.Parma FC Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 (in Italian)

JEF United Chiba

In March 2012, Siena announced that Reginaldo would play on loan to Japanese club

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. The loan agreement was supposed to run until December 2012 but, after 10 games and no goals, he returned on June to Siena.

Vasco da Gama

Reginaldo returned to Brazil in June 2013 on a free transfer. After poor appearances he was released.

Return to Italy

Circa mid-2016 Reginaldo returned to Italy for

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club Paganese. He was about to join

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club

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in January 2016. However, he was blocked by a non-EU players rule of

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, that amateur club can only sign two non-EU players, given an application was submitted on 31 December 2015. He obtained a resident status in Italy in February 2016, making him eligible for a European Union passport. On 31 July 2017, Reginaldo was signed by another Serie C club

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on a one-year contract. In January 2018 he joined

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club

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. In July 2018, Reginaldo joined

club

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. On 17 July 2019, he joined

Reggina Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo. They are nic ...

. On 17 September 2020 he signed a 2-year contract with

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. In September 2021, Reginaldo signed with

Footnotes

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport profile (2006–07)

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