Giuseppe Rizza
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Giuseppe Rizza is an Italian football defender who currently plays for U.S. Pergocrema 1932
U.S. Pergocrema 1932
Unione Sportiva Pergocrema 1932 is an Italian association football club, based in Crema, province of Cremona, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1932 as Pergolettese in Pergoletto, a suburb of the town. Pergocrema currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione...

 on loan from A.S. Livorno Calcio
A.S. Livorno Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie B. The team's colors are dark red or maroon...

.

Career

Rizza went through the Juventus youth system and after graduating was sold to Juve Stabia in the Italian Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....

 in co-ownership deal
Co-ownership (football)
Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club...

. In June 2008, he returned to Juventus for €50,000, but along with several other youth players, was loaned out to Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 teams. Rizza, along with Francesco Volpe
Francesco Volpe
Francesco Volpe is an Italian footballer. He currently plays as a forward for Piacenza Calcio.-Football career:Volpe joined Juventus along with Domenico Criscito in 2004 in co-ownership deal, for €1.9M Francesco Volpe (born 3 March 1986) is an Italian footballer. He currently plays as a forward...

, was sold to A.S. Livorno Calcio
A.S. Livorno Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie B. The team's colors are dark red or maroon...

, who were just relegated to Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 following a poor Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 campaign in another co-ownership deal, through out to be €25,000.

Rizza was sold permanently by Juventus in June 2009, for undisclosed fee, but Juventus profited €86,000, made the fee was about €100,000. Rizza was loaned out to A.C. Arezzo
A.C. Arezzo
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Atletico Arezzo is an Italian association football club based in Arezzo, Tuscany...

 in July, after Livorno were promoted back to Serie A.

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