Federica Faiella

Federica Faiella
Faiella/Scali at the 2010 Worlds
Personal information
Country represented	Italy
Born	(1981-02-01) 1 February 1981 (age 36) Rome
Home town	Capena, Province of Rome
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Partner	Massimo Scali
Former partner	Luciano Milo
Former coach	Natalia Linichuk, Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova, Roberto Pelizzola, Walter Rizzo, Brunhilde Bianchi
Former choreographer	Paola Mezzadri, Ludmila Vlasova, Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova, N. Pregnolato
Skating club	Agora Skating Team
Retired	2011
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	201.91 2008 Worlds
Comp. dance	40.85 2010 Worlds
Original dance	63.55 2008 Worlds
Free dance	101.21 2008 Worlds
Medal record Figure skating Ice dancing Representing  Italy World Championships 2010 Turin Ice dancing European Championships 2010 Tallinn Ice dancing 2009 Helsinki Ice dancing Junior Grand Prix Final 1998–1999 Detroit Ice dancing 1997–1998 Lausanne Ice dancing World Junior Championships 1998 Saint John Ice dancing 1999 Zagreb Ice dancing

Federica Faiella (born 1 February 1981) is an Italian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Massimo Scali, she is the 2010 World bronze medalist, a two-time (2009–2010) European silver medalist, and six-time (2003–2005, 2007–2009) Italian national champion. They also won eleven Grand Prix medals.

Faiella began skating at the age of ten. She competed with Luciano Milo, with whom she was the Junior Grand Prix Final champion in the 1997–1998 season. She and Scali trained at the same rink under the same coach. After Milo quit skating, she briefly partnered with a French skater.

Faiella teamed up with Massimo Scali in 2001. Despite skating together for only a brief period of time, Faiella/Scali were able to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they finished 18th.

In their second season of competition together, Faiella/Scali won Italian nationals for the first time, and placed in the top ten at the European Championships. A year later, they moved into the top ten at Worlds. In the years leading up to the 2006 Winter Olympics, they continued to make steady progress up the ranks. Prior to the 2005–06 Olympic season, Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio, who won bronze for Italy at the 2002 Games, returned to the eligible ranks. Faiella/Scali became the second Italian team, and finished outside the top ten at the Olympics after a fall in the original dance.

Following the season, they made a coaching change and relocated to the United States to work with Pasquale Camerlengo and Anjelika Krylova at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They had an up and down season in 2006–07 but enjoyed good results in 2007–08, including a fourth place at the Europeans and a fifth-place finish at Worlds.