Leandro Rinaudo
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Leandro Rinaudo is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A
club S.S.C. Napoli
.
, he was loaned to Serie C1 club Varese
in the first year of Zamparini
's era. The loan was pre-matured in January 2003. However he failed to enter the first team as Zamparini bought a couple of players from his former club A.C. Venezia.
On 30 August 2003, he was loaned to Serie B club Salernitana. He also played for Salernitana youth team at Coppa Italia Primavera
as overage player.
After Palermo won promotion to Serie A in 2004 as Serie B champion, Rinaudo was excluded from the club's Serie A plan, and was loaned to another Serie B club Cesena
, where he started to play as one of the regular starters.
Rinaudo returned to Palermo on 1 July 2005. That season he was the backup for Christian Terlizzi
, Giuseppe Biava
, Cristian Zaccardo
(right back or centre back) and Andrea Barzagli
, only made 7 starts in the league, but he also made 3 starts in 2005–06 UEFA Cup.
In the 2006–07 Serie A season, near the end of summer transfer window, he left for fellow Serie A club Siena
along with Paul Codrea
. Rinaudo partnered with Daniele Portanova
as centre back and the team improved in goal conceded which made Rinaudo earn a third return to Palermo. He made 21 starts in Serie A that season, which he mainly competed with Biava for the central back position to partner with Barzagli, and Zaccardo usually as right back and Mattia Cassani
sometimes as right winger or left back.
for €5.5 million and signed a five-year contract. He was not a regular in his first season at Napoli. Leandro was mainly used as a backup defender behind Fabiano Santacroce
, Paolo Cannavaro
and Matteo Contini
In 2009–10 season, he made 13 starts with Napoli in Serie A. As Napoli preferred 3–5–2 formation, Salvatore Aronica
, Paolo Cannavaro
, Gianluca Grava
, Hugo Campagnaro
and Matteo Contini
were usually starters, made Rinaudo the backup centre back.
Rinaudo did not receive a call-up for the Napoli's first official match of the 2010–11 season, against Elfsborg
in 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. The coach used Cannavaro, Aronica, Campagnaro and Grava in the first 3 matches and reduced Rinaudo to 6th choice centre back behind Santacroce (who played as unused substitute).
, Palermo team-mate Amauri
and former Palermo coach Luigi Delneri. Napoli also signed centre back Emílson Cribari on the same day. Rinaudo would be the backup centre back along with Nicola Legrottaglie
to cover first choice defenders Giorgio Chiellini
and Leonardo Bonucci
. Rinaudo also set to join Bari
but never completed. He made his club debut on 26 September 2010, but unusually as right back. Coach rested right back Marco Motta
and moved Zdenek Grygera
to left back to replace injured Paolo De Ceglie
. That match Juve won Cagliari
4–2. However, before the start of the next match, a group stage match of 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, against Manchester City
, he was injured and had a operation on the Lumbosacral joint
.
25-men senior squad.
. He was capped once in international games (also the only game of the team that season) against Bosnia and Herzegovina U21
. He replaced Marco Pomante
in the second half. U21 Serie B won the eastern neighbor 3–2.
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...
club S.S.C. Napoli
S.S.C. Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....
.
Palermo
A youth product of PalermoU.S. Città di Palermo
Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...
, he was loaned to Serie C1 club Varese
A.S. Varese 1910
A.S. Varese 1910 is an Italian football club from Varese, founded 22 March 1910. It currently plays in Serie B, ranked one division below Serie A in the Italian football league.-History:...
in the first year of Zamparini
Maurizio Zamparini
Maurizio Zamparini is an Italian businessman and the current owner and chairman of Serie A club U.S. Città di Palermo....
's era. The loan was pre-matured in January 2003. However he failed to enter the first team as Zamparini bought a couple of players from his former club A.C. Venezia.
On 30 August 2003, he was loaned to Serie B club Salernitana. He also played for Salernitana youth team at Coppa Italia Primavera
Coppa Italia Primavera
The Coppa Italia Primavera is an Italian football competition played for by youth teams from Campionato Primavera. All players are under 20 of age. The first edition was held in the 1972-73 season....
as overage player.
After Palermo won promotion to Serie A in 2004 as Serie B champion, Rinaudo was excluded from the club's Serie A plan, and was loaned to another Serie B club Cesena
A.C. Cesena
Associazione Calcio Cesena is an Italian football club based in Cesena, Romagna. The club was formed in 1940 and won the first promotion to Serie A in 1973. Since then, the club have been in the Italian Premier League for a total of in 11 seasons, reaching the best achievement in 1976 with the 6th...
, where he started to play as one of the regular starters.
Rinaudo returned to Palermo on 1 July 2005. That season he was the backup for Christian Terlizzi
Christian Terlizzi
Christian Terlizzi is an Italian professional footballer who plays for A.S. Varese 1910. He has played for clubs on all professional levels of Italian football, including U.S. Città di Palermo, U.C. Sampdoria, and Catania Calcio in the Serie A. He has also been capped for the Italy national...
, Giuseppe Biava
Giuseppe Biava
Giuseppe Biava is an Italian footballer, who currently plays as a centre back for Serie A side Lazio.-AlbinoLeffe:A centre back, Biava started his career with the Leffe youth team, before moving to newly-promoted Serie D team Albinese in 1995...
, Cristian Zaccardo
Cristian Zaccardo
Cristian Zaccardo, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays for Italian Serie A club Parma...
(right back or centre back) and Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Juventus.- Club career :...
, only made 7 starts in the league, but he also made 3 starts in 2005–06 UEFA Cup.
In the 2006–07 Serie A season, near the end of summer transfer window, he left for fellow Serie A club Siena
A.C. Siena
Associazione Calcio Siena is an Italian football club based in Siena.The club currently plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B at the end of the 2010-2011 season....
along with Paul Codrea
Paul Codrea
Paul Codrea is a Romanian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for A.C. Siena in Italy. He played for the Romanian team in the group stage games in the 2008 European Championships.-International goals:...
. Rinaudo partnered with Daniele Portanova
Daniele Portanova
Daniele Portanova is an Italian footballer, who plays as a defender for Bologna of Serie A.In 19 August 2009, Portanova was moved to Bologna from AC Siena. He swapped clubs with Claudio Terzi.-External links:*...
as centre back and the team improved in goal conceded which made Rinaudo earn a third return to Palermo. He made 21 starts in Serie A that season, which he mainly competed with Biava for the central back position to partner with Barzagli, and Zaccardo usually as right back and Mattia Cassani
Mattia Cassani
Mattia Cassani is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Fiorentina and the Italian national team.-Club career:Cassani started his career at Juventus and then left for Sampdoria on loan in January 2003...
sometimes as right winger or left back.
Napoli
On 4 June 2008, he was sold to fellow Serie A club NapoliS.S.C. Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....
for €5.5 million and signed a five-year contract. He was not a regular in his first season at Napoli. Leandro was mainly used as a backup defender behind Fabiano Santacroce
Fabiano Santacroce
Fabiano Santacroce is an Italian Brazilian central or left defender who currently plays for Serie A club Parma, on loan from Napoli...
, Paolo Cannavaro
Paolo Cannavaro
Paolo Cannavaro is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli. He is the younger brother of Fabio Cannavaro.-Club career:...
and Matteo Contini
Matteo Contini
Matteo Contini is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Siena on loan from Zaragoza.-Career:He started his professional career in the AC Milan youth system. He was then loaned to Serie C1 teams Livorno, SPAL, Monza and L'Aquila between 1999–2003 and Serie B team Avellino in 2003/04...
In 2009–10 season, he made 13 starts with Napoli in Serie A. As Napoli preferred 3–5–2 formation, Salvatore Aronica
Salvatore Aronica
Salvatore Aronica is an Italian association football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli.-Biography:...
, Paolo Cannavaro
Paolo Cannavaro
Paolo Cannavaro is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli. He is the younger brother of Fabio Cannavaro.-Club career:...
, Gianluca Grava
Gianluca Grava
Gianluca Grava is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli.-Career:He made his Serie A debut at the age of 30 in Napoli's 5–0 victory over Udinese on 2 September 2007; he had previously made over 350 appearances with various clubs in the lower divisions of Italian...
, Hugo Campagnaro
Hugo Campagnaro
Hugo Armando Campagnaro is an Argentine football defender with Italian origins who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli.-Career:He started his career at Club Deportivo Morón, played in Argentine second and third division...
and Matteo Contini
Matteo Contini
Matteo Contini is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Siena on loan from Zaragoza.-Career:He started his professional career in the AC Milan youth system. He was then loaned to Serie C1 teams Livorno, SPAL, Monza and L'Aquila between 1999–2003 and Serie B team Avellino in 2003/04...
were usually starters, made Rinaudo the backup centre back.
Rinaudo did not receive a call-up for the Napoli's first official match of the 2010–11 season, against Elfsborg
IF Elfsborg
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in 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. The coach used Cannavaro, Aronica, Campagnaro and Grava in the first 3 matches and reduced Rinaudo to 6th choice centre back behind Santacroce (who played as unused substitute).
Juventus
As a result of not being called up to the opening game for Napoli in Serie A, he opted for and completed a loan move to fellow Serie A Side Juventus on 31 August for a fee of €600,000, with an option to make the transfer permanent for €5M, thus re-joining former Napoli team-mate Fabio QuagliarellaFabio Quagliarella
Fabio Quagliarella is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus and internationally for the Italian national team. He is known for scoring incredible goals from unconventional angles that often catch the goalkeeper by surprise.-Early career:Quagliarella began his...
, Palermo team-mate Amauri
Amauri
Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira , better known as Amauri, is a Brazilian-born Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus.-Early career:...
and former Palermo coach Luigi Delneri. Napoli also signed centre back Emílson Cribari on the same day. Rinaudo would be the backup centre back along with Nicola Legrottaglie
Nicola Legrottaglie
Nicola Legrottaglie is an Italian footballer who plays for Calcio Catania in Serie A, as a central defender.-Early years:...
to cover first choice defenders Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Juventus. He is a centre back, who started his career playing as a left back.-Livorno:...
and Leonardo Bonucci
Leonardo Bonucci
Leonardo Bonucci is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.-Internazionale:Bonucci started his career at Viterbese but was loaned to Internazionale in the summer of 2005. He played a number of pre-season friendlies for Inter first team...
. Rinaudo also set to join Bari
A.S. Bari
Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....
but never completed. He made his club debut on 26 September 2010, but unusually as right back. Coach rested right back Marco Motta
Marco Motta
Marco Motta is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Juventus.Motta is a former youth international and participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Atalanta:...
and moved Zdenek Grygera
Zdenek Grygera
Zdeněk Grygera is a Czech football player who is currently playing for English club Fulham. He is usually a right back or centre back but can play anywhere in defence.-Early career:...
to left back to replace injured Paolo De Ceglie
Paolo De Ceglie
Paolo De Ceglie is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Juventus.-Club career:De Ceglie joined Juventus' youth set-up as a youngster and idolized Pavel Nedvěd. He played in various youth competitions for Juve, including the Campionato Primavera and Coppa Italia Primavera...
. That match Juve won Cagliari
Cagliari Calcio
Cagliari Calcio is an Italian football club based in Cagliari, Sardinia. The club was formed in 1920 and currently plays in Italian Serie A, having spent a large part of recent years mainly in Serie A and Serie B....
4–2. However, before the start of the next match, a group stage match of 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, against Manchester City
Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
, he was injured and had a operation on the Lumbosacral joint
Lumbosacral joint
The lumbosacral joint is a joint of the body, between the last lumbar vertebra and the first sacral segment of the spinal cord....
.
2011–12 season
On 1 July 2011 he returned to Napoli. He was excluded from 2011–12 UEFA Champions League2011–12 UEFA Champions League
The 2011–12 UEFA Champions League is the 57th season of the European Cup, Europe's premier football tournament, and the 20th season in its current Champions League format. The final venue will be the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany...
25-men senior squad.
International career
Rinaudo never received any call-up from Italy youth teams. But in 2004–05 season he received several call-up from Italy under-21 Serie B representative teamItaly under-21 Serie B representative team
Italy under-21 Serie B representative team is the football representative team of Serie B and is controlled by the Lega Serie B. Due to sponsorship reason, the team was credited as Under-21 Serie B TIM until 2010....
. He was capped once in international games (also the only game of the team that season) against Bosnia and Herzegovina U21
Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-21 football team
Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 national football team is a youth team of Bosnia and Herzegovina that represents the country in the European Under-21 Football Championship and friendly matches....
. He replaced Marco Pomante
Marco Pomante
Marco Pomante is an Italian footballer who plays for A.S.G. Nocerina.-Pescara:A youth product of Abruzzo team Pescara, Pomante was loaned to Fano in his early career. He returned to Pescara in 2004 and played a few Serie B matches. In January 2006 he left for Chieti...
in the second half. U21 Serie B won the eastern neighbor 3–2.
External links
- Player profile on Napoli's official website
- Palermo Profile
- Lega Calcio official site Profile