Andrea Masiello
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Andrea Masiello is an Italian
Italy
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 footballer
Football (soccer)
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. He plays for Atalanta
Atalanta B.C.
Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...

.

Juventus

A graduate of Juventus youth system, he made his Serie A debut at Juventus F.C.
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

, losing to Inter
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

, 0–1 in home legs, 20 April 2005.

Masiello was on loan to Avellino
U.S. Avellino
Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912 , since summer 2010, is the new name of the Italian football club, based in Avellino, Campania. The club was founded in 1912 and its traditional colours are green and white...

 of 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...

 in 2005, along with Boudianski
Viktor Boudianski
Viktor Igorevich Budyansky Viktor Igorevich Budyansky Viktor Igorevich Budyansky (or Romanization as Boudianski is an association footballer. As of 2010 he plays for Udinese.-Juventus and various loans:...

, where he played 41 times in Serie B and playoffs but did not avoid the relegation.

Genoa

Juventus faced 2006 Italian football scandal and forced to play in Serie B. Thus, the squad faced clearance in order to improve the financial condition. Masiello, along with Abdoulay Konko
Abdoulay Konko
Abdoulaye Konko Faye is a French footballer of Senegalese and Moroccan descent, who currently plays for Lazio in Serie A as a right back. He favours dribbling and can play anywhere on either wing.-Club career:...

 and Giovanni Bartolucci
Giovanni Bartolucci
Giovanni Bartolucci is an Italian footballer who plays for Gubbio.-Biography:A youth product of Fiorentina, he made his Serie A debut losing to S.S. Lazio in 0–3, away legs 10 June 2001. Bartolucci signed to Juventus F.C. on free transfer in 2002...

 were now joint-owned
Co-ownership (football)
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 by Siena
A.C. Siena
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 of Serie A and Juventus, which valued Masiello €1.25 million, Konko €1million and Bartolucci for undisclosed fee.

After scoring no presence in the first half of the 2006 season, Juventus sold its 50% rights of Masiello and Konko to Genoa on 25 January 2007, (which previously owned by Siena and Juventus, after became Genoa and Siena) worth for €2.25million, for part of the deal of Domenico Criscito
Domenico Criscito
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 permanent transfer. He played 15 times and won promotion along with team-mate.

Genoa decided to sign Masiello and Konko permanently at the end of season, for undisclosed fee (with Fernando Forestieri
Fernando Forestieri
Fernando Martín Forestieri is an Italian Argentine footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B club Bari, on loan from Udinese. He is nicknamed El Topa.-Club career:...

 moved to Siena for €1.7 million in co-ownership deal), but after played 4 times, he was loan back to Serie B for A.S. 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....

.

Bari

Masiello jointed Bari in join-ownership bid after 2007–08 season. He won Serie B champion in 2009 and the club decided to buy him outright. After the injuries of Andrea Ranocchia
Andrea Ranocchia
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, he moved to centre-back from right-back. A.Masiello was the absolute starter in 2009–10 Serie A
2009–10 Serie A
The 2009–10 Serie A was the seventy-eighth season since its establishment. There were three promoted teams from the Serie B, replacing the three teams that were relegated following the 2008–09 season. Nike provided a new match ball - the T90 Ascente - for this season...

 season.

After the departure of Ranocchia 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...

, Bari failed to sign quality replacement. At first he was the centre-back as the team signed right-back Andrea Raggi
Andrea Raggi
Andrea Raggi is an Italian football defender, currently playing for Bologna.-Empoli:He started his footballing career with Empoli, where he spent a total of four seasons with the first team.-Palermo:...

, but in mid-season he was moved back to right-back. In January 2011 Bari signed centre-back Kamil Glik
Kamil Glik
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 and after the departure of coach Giampiero Ventura
Giampiero Ventura
Giampiero Ventura is an Italian football manager and the current manager of Torino.-Career:After a short playing career started with Sampdoria, Ventura was forced to retire from active football at the age of 25 because of a serious back injury...

, A.Masiello remained as the starting right-back and Nicola Belmonte
Nicola Belmonte
Nicola Belmonte is an Italian footballer currently playing for A.C. Siena. He prefers to play as a right back, but can also play as a centre back.-Biography:...

 became the usual centre-back under Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti is an Italian football manager and a former player.His older brother Tiziano Mutti also played football professionally...

. Bari preformed poorly in both attack and defence that season, and the team finished as the bottom and 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...

.

On 15 May 2011 in the 35
35
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 'of the second half of the derby Bari-Lecce, he deflects a shot of the attacker's Jeda
Jeda
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, destined to go out and score the own goal that gives the victory and salvation to giallorossi Salentini.

External links

La Gazzetta
  • http://www.figc.it/nazionali/DettaglioConvocato?codiceConvocato=2810&squadra=11
  • http://aic.football.it/scheda/12899
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