Riccardo Meggiorini
Meggiorini playing for Chievo in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 4 September 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Isola della Scala, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker, Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Chievo | ||
| Number | 69 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–2000 | Hellas Verona | ||
| 2000–2003 | Bovolone | ||
| 2003–2004 | Internazionale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2006 | Internazionale | 1 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Spezia (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Pavia (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2006–2009 | Cittadella | 110 | (41) |
| 2009–2010 | Bari | 31 | (5) |
| 2010–2011 | Bologna | 29 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Genoa | 0 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | → Novara (loan) | 12 | (1) |
| 2012–2014 | Torino | 83 | (7) |
| 2014– | Chievo | 51 | (11) |
| National team | |||
| 2004 | Italy U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2005 | Italy U20 | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 05:06, 20 March 2016 (UTC). |
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Riccardo Meggiorini (born 4 September 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chievo Verona.
Meggiorini took his first steps as a footballer at age eight, in a small football team from Tarmassia, a small fraction of Isola della Scala, and at 12 he entered in the Verona youth system, where he remained for two years. He moved to Bovolone in 2000, in which he scored 46 goals in 26 games in the category of Allievi regionali. He earned a call-up to the first team the following season, scoring 13 times in 27 appearances.
In the summer of 2003, Meggiorini moved, on loan, to Internazionale, who placed him in the Primavera of the Nerazzurri. At the end of the season, on 23 June, 2004 the club redeemed his contract. After starting the season in the youth team, Roberto Mancini called him up into the first team for the trip to Cagliari, giving him his Serie A debut on 14 November 2004, which ended 3–3.
In January 2005, he left on loan to Spezia of Serie C1, along with Hernán Paolo Dellafiore. In the summer of the same year, he moved to Pavia, also in Serie C1. In January 2006, he moved to Cittadella, another Serie C1 team. He loan was extended in July 2006
He was bought by Cittadella in co-ownership deal in summer 2007, for €40,000, and won promotion to Serie B in June 2008.
In June 2009 Meggiorini was involved in the signing of Diego Milito (€28M) and Thiago Motta (€10.2M). Which Inter paid Genoa €20 million cash and half of the registration rights of Meggiorini (tagged for €2.5 million),Robert Acquafresca (€9.5M), half of Ivan Fatić (€200,000),Leonardo Bonucci (€3 million) and Francesco Bolzoni (€3 million). Genoa also paid another €2.5 million to Cittadella via Inter in order to fully owned the registration rights of Meggiorini.
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