Daniel Ciofani

Daniel Ciofani

Personal information
Date of birth	31 July 1985 (1985-07-31) (age 26)
Place of birth	Avezzano, Italy
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Gubbio (on loan from Parma)
Number	9
Youth career
	Pescara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005–2009	Pescara	12	(1)
2006–2007	→ Celano (loan)	29	(6)
2008	→ Gela (loan)	15	(7)
2008–2009	→ Cisco Roma (loan)	34	(17)
2009–2011	Cisco/Atletico Roma	64	(36)
2011–	Parma	0	(0)
2011–	→ Gubbio (loan)	12	(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of End of 2010-11 season. † Appearances (Goals).

Daniel Ciofani (born 31 July 1985) is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B team Gubbio, on loan from Parma.

A right footed striker, Ciofani had spent 3½ seasons in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (4th highest level), scoring 50 goals, and additional 2 in playoffs. He maintained his goal scoring ratio (about 0.45 goals per game) in Italian third highest level in 2010–11 season, made him signed by a Serie B club in 2011.

Biography

Pescara

Born in Avezzano, Abruzzo, Ciofani started his career at Serie B side Pescara. In August 2006, he was loaned to Serie C1 side Celano along with Alessio Spoltore.^[1] He made 29 league appearances for Celano and returned to Pescara on 1 July 2007. With Pescara which the team recently relegated to Serie C1 in June 2007, he only made 2 appearances. On 4 January 2008, he was loaned to Gela of Serie C2.^[2] He scored 7 goals in half season.

Atletico Roma

Ciofani was loaned to Seconda Divisione (ex- Serie C2) side Cisco Roma in August 2008 (renamed to Atletico Roma in 2010) with option to buy half of the registration rights in June 2009.^[3] He scored 37 goals in 2 seasons and won the promotion playoffs with Cisco Roma in 2010. He was the team top-scorer of Cisco Roma and top-scorer of the 2^nd Divisione Group C in 2009–10 season. Which he was the joint-topscorer of the league along with Alessandro Marotta of Group B. He scored 2 more goals in the playoffs, just 1 goal short behind Alessandro Cesarini and Giacomo Casoli (both 3 goals) and shared the play-offs second highest scorer with Alessandro Cesca, Francesco Corapi, Antonio Ciro Montella and Antonio Gaeta; thus he was the overall top-scorer of the 2nd Divisione.

In June 2010, Pescara also won promotion (but to Serie B) and both clubs failed to agree the price of the remained 50% registration rights,^[4] thus both clubs had to submit a bid in envelope to Lega Pro to decide the ownership. On 30 June 2010, Lega Pro announced that Cisco Roma won the closed tender as the highest bidder.^[5]

Parma

On 8 July 2010, he was signed by Serie A side Parma F.C. in another co-ownership deal. As part of the deal, Atletico Roma signed Alessio Tombesi and Abel Gigli in co-ownership deal, Abdou Doumbia and Gianluca Lapadula on loan.^[6] Ciofani also remained in Rome on loan for another season. He scored 16 goals in 2010-11 season as team-topscorer.^[7] On 24 June 2011 Parma bought the remain 50% registration rights and bought back Gigli.

In July 2011, he was loaned to Serie B newcomer Gubbio.

References

1. ^ "Ferrante al Pescara ma firma lunedì" (in Italian). Pescara Calcio. 25 August 2006. http://www.pescaracalcio.com/stagione/archivio-news/856-ferrante-al-pescara-ma-firma-luned.html. Retrieved 29 July 2011. 
2. ^ "Ceduti sei calciatori" (in Italian). Pescara Calcio. 4 January 2008. http://www.pescaracalcio.com/stagione/archivio-news/1239-ceduti-sei-calciatori.html. Retrieved 29 July 2011. 
3. ^ "MERCATO: ceduti quattro calciatori" (in Italian). Pescara Calcio. 21 July 2008. http://www.pescaracalcio.com/stagione/archivio-news/1834-mercato-ceduti-quattro-calciatori.html. Retrieved 31 October 2010. 
4. ^ "RAFFAELE FRANCHINI ACQUISTATO DALLA CISCO ROMA. PER CIOFANI INCOGNITA BUSTE..." (in Italian). AS Cisco Calcio Roma. 25 June 2010. http://www.ciscocalcioroma.it/news.php?nid=4916. Retrieved 28 July 2010. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ "Risoluzioni accordi di partecipazione ed esito apertura buste ( C.U. Lega Pro 156L del 18/05/10)" (in Italian) (in PDF). Lega Pro. 30 June 2010. http://www.lega-pro.com/images/stories/pdf_news/partecipazioni-2009_10.pdf. Retrieved 28 July 2010. 
6. ^ "ATLETICO ROMA: QUATTRO COLPI DI MERCATO CHE ARRIVANO DA PARMA" (in Italian). Atletico Roma. 9 July 2010. http://www.ciscocalcioroma.it/news.php?nid=4920. Retrieved 29 July 2010. ^{[dead link]}
7. ^ "Classifica Marcatori - 1° Divisione gir. B" (in Italian). Lega Pro. ca. End of 2010–11 season. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5zuGftsfv. Retrieved 3 July 2011. 

External links

• Profile at Football.it (Italian)
• Profile at TuttoCalciatori.net (Italian)
• Profile at Atletico Roma (Italian)^{[dead link]}

Persondata
Name	Ciofani, Daniel
Alternative names	Ciofani, Daniel
Short description	Italian footballer
Date of birth	31 July 1985
Place of birth	Avezzano, Italy
Date of death
Place of death