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Emiliano Viviano (; born 1 December 1985) is an Italian professional
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who plays as a
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for Turkish
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club
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.


Club career


Brescia

Born in
Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...
, Viviano is a product of
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 fol ...
and
Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...
youth teams. He started his career with a loan in
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at
Cesena Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. ...
in the 2004–05 season. Then he spent four years as first-choice goalkeeper in Serie B with Brescia.


Inter, Brescia loan & Bologna

In January 2009, Viviano was signed by
Inter Milan Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is ...
in a co-ownership deal for €3.5 million. He was immediately loaned back to Brescia. In the 2009–10 season he made his debut in
Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
with
Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
where he became the first-choice goalkeeper. Bologna signed him in by purchasing Viviano's 50% registration rights from Brescia also for €3.5 million.


Inter return, Genoa and Palermo

On 25 June 2011, Viviano rejoined Inter Milan from Bologna after the Lega Serie A had announced the results of the co-ownership deals. Due to an administrative error he once again linked up with Inter, on this occasion for a fee of €4.1 million. The error came about as the Bologna club director, Stefano Pedrelli, had accidentally halved the initial €4.71 million valuation of the remaining 50% of Viviano's contract again, leading the club to bid only €2.33 million in response to Inter's €4.1 million valuation of the player on the bid submitted to the league office on 24 June. On 23 July 2011, Viviano was diagnosed with a complete tear of the
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in the left knee. The injury ruled him out for almost half of the 2011–12 season. In August 2011, Inter swapped Viviano with
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in a co-ownership deal, which entailed half of Kucka's registration rights for €8 million and half of Viviano's registration rights for €5 million. However both players remained with their original clubs until Viviano had recovered from his injury. In January 2012, Palermo bought
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's half to end their search for a goalkeeper since the summer of 2011. He signed a contract which lasted until 30 June 2016. Viviano would compete with Greek international
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for a starting spot and squeezed
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out. In a separate deal, the transfer fee would partially compensate for the signing of
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from Palermo to Genoa outright. In June 2012, the co-ownership deal of Viviano was renewed between Inter and Palermo; Kucka, however, returned to Genoa from Inter for €6.5 million with youngster
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returned to Inter for €7 million; less than a month later, Inter sold Viviano to Palermo outright in another player swap (for
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), making the club eventually received no cash for their €7.6 million investment on Viviano.


Fiorentina

In July 2012, Palermo also bought Inter's 50% of the player for €3 millionUS Citta di Palermo SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2012 (with Matías Silvestre to Inter on loan also for €3 million), and instantly loaned him to his hometown club Fiorentina for €500,000 with option to buy outright for €7.5 million.


Arsenal

On 2 September 2013, Viviano moved to
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team Arsenal on a one-year loan deal with an option to make the move permanent at the end of the season. However, Viviano returned to Palermo at the end of the season without having played a competitive game for Arsenal.


Sampdoria

On 12 August 2014, Viviano was signed by
Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...
in a temporary deal, with an option to sign him outright. On 26 June 2015, the loan was extended with an obligation to purchase. He signed a 1+4 year contract with a transfer fee of €2.3 million (€24,000 loan fee + €2.276 million outright).


Sporting CP

After the departure of
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, on 22 June 2018, Viviano was signed by
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from Italian side
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for a reported fee of €2 million.


S.P.A.L

On 7 January 2019, Viviano was loaned to
Spal Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor, commonly known as S.P.A.L. (), is a professional football club based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The team plays in Serie B, the second tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in 1907, sinc ...
until the end of the season.


Fatih Karagümrük

On 26th August 2020, Viviano joined
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on a free transfer.


International career

Viviano was the first-choice goalkeeper for
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at the
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. He was a part of the
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that took part at the
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. He made another appearance for the national U-21 side in a friendly against the Dutch U21 side on 5 February 2008 in preparation for the upcoming Olympics. Viviano went on to play at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Italy. The Olympic team was primarily composed of players from the Italy U21 side that took part at the 2007 European Under-21 Championship side, but who would no longer be eligible to play in the 2009 edition of the tournament. Viviano did not take part in the
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, however, a warm-up tournament before the Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Italy reached the quarter-finals, where they suffered a 3–2 defeat to
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; during the match, Viviano was sent off in the 80th minute for a reactionary foul on
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, after the latter had kicked the ball at him when play had stopped following Dembélé's goal, which took Belgium into the lead, and ultimately proved to be the match–winner. After receiving his first senior call-up on 6 August 2010, ahead of Italy's friendly against Ivory Coast on 10 August, Viviano made his debut for Italy senior team on 7 September, during a
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match, in a 5–0 victory against the
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in
Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...
. At that time he became the second choice goalkeeper for Italy, only after veteran
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and ahead of
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, starting in Italy's October European qualifiers against
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in Belfast (0–0) and
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in Genoa, with the latter match being abandoned after only seven minutes of play due to crowd trouble, after flares had been thrown by the fans onto the field, with one almost hitting Viviano; as result, Italy were handed a 3–0 victory. Following an injury that had ruled him out of play for six months, Viviano was once again called up on 26 February 2012, ahead of Italy's friendly against
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three days later. On 13 May 2012, he was included in Cesare Prandelli's 32-man provisional squad for
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; however, he was later excluded from the final 23-man team on 28 May.


Style of play

Considered by pundits and footballing figures to be a promising goalkeeper in his youth, who was even touted as a potential successor to Gianluigi Buffon with the Italian national team, Viviano is known for his penalty saving abilities as well as his reflexes and shot-stopping capabilities between the posts; his ability to come off his line to deal with high balls has been cited as an area in need of improvement, however. With 12 stops, he has saved the joint–ninth–highest number of penalties in Serie A history. In 2011, Kris Voakes of ''Goal.com'' described Viviano with the following words: "His 6ft 5in frame gives him a head start, but it is also thanks to his organisation, command of the area, anticipation and, naturally, his excellent shot-stopping abilities that he has become known as one of the best Serie A has to offer." He is also competent with the ball at his feet, which allows him to play the ball out from the back on the ground.


Career statistics


Club


International


References


External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Viviano, Emiliano 1985 births Living people Footballers from Florence Italian footballers Italy youth international footballers Italy under-21 international footballers Italy international footballers Association football goalkeepers Brescia Calcio players A.C. Cesena players Bologna F.C. 1909 players Inter Milan players Palermo F.C. players ACF Fiorentina players U.C. Sampdoria players S.P.A.L. players Arsenal F.C. players Sporting CP footballers Fatih Karagümrük S.K. footballers Serie A players Serie B players Premier League players Primeira Liga players Süper Lig players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Italy Italian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in England Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Turkey Italian expatriate sportspeople in England Italian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Italian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey