Ciro Polito
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 April 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Naples, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–1999 | Salernitana | 0 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | → Rimini (loan) | 29 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Lucchese | 5 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Mantova (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Avellino | 22 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Pistoiese | 29 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Acireale | 30 | (0) |
| 2004–2009 | Catania | 37 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Pescara (loan) | 17 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Grosseto (loan) | 18 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Salernitana | 32 | (1) |
| 2011–2014 | Atalanta | 5 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Sassuolo | 0 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:51, 1 February 2014 (UTC). |
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Ciro Polito (born 12 April 1979) is an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Ciro Polito began his footballing career with the youth system of Salerno based club, Salernitana Sport, in the mid-1990s, and began to earn senior call-ups in 1997. Despite often being called up during the 1997-98 season, Polito was loaned out to Rimini for the 1998-99 season, and managed to earn a starting position for much of the season. With the club, Polito made 29 league appearances and returned to Salerno in 1999, but the young goalkeeper never earned a senior debut for his near-hometown club. In July 1999 he was involved in a swap deal with Lucchese. The deal saw Lorenzo Squizzi move in the opposite direction, with both players joining their new clubs in co-ownership deal.
Polito made just 5 appearances with his new club and was hence, loaned out in January 2000, to A.C. Mantova. The loan spell proved to be successful, as Polito earned starting gloves for the remainder of the campaign, making 12 starts. In June 2000, he returned to Lucchese, but their share of his contract was sold back to Salernitnana, but Polito did not remain in Salerno either and he was sold to nearby rivals Avellino.
Since signed by Avellino permanently, the goalkeeper failed to break into the club's starting line-up in two seasons, but still managed to make 22 league appearances as a back-up between 2000 and 2002, when he was sold to A.C. Pistoiese.
Following his move to A.C. Pistoiese, Polito again earned a starting position, and went on to make 33 appearances for his new club in all competitions, in just one season. Following his impressive form during the course of the 2002-2003 season, he was scouted by, and eventually sold to Sicilian club, Acireale. After officially joining the Sicilian outfit in July 2003, Polito again found a position in the starting XI of his newest club, and made 30 league appearances that season. He was then scouted by Catania chief director Pietro Lo Monaco, and was brought to the club during the summer window of 2004.
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