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Nicola Ventola Personal information Full name Nicola Ventola Date of birth May 24, 1978 Place of birth Grumo Appula, Italy Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Playing position Striker Club information Current club Novara Number 22 Youth career Bari Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1994–1998 Bari 44 (12) 1998–1999 Internazionale 21 (6) 1999–2000 Bologna 14 (0) 2000–2005 Internazionale 16 (4) 2000–2001 → Atalanta (loan) 28 (10) 2003–2004 → Siena (loan) 28 (4) 2004–2005 → Crystal Palace (loan) 3 (1) 2005–2007 Atalanta 64 (23) 2007–2009 Torino 35 (6) 2009– Novara 26 (4) National team –2000 Italy U-21 / Olympic * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:49, 20 December 2010 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).Nicola Ventola (born May 24, 1978 in Grumo Appula, Bari) is an Italian footballer playing as a striker. He was a member of the Italian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and represented Italy in the under-21s team.
He plays for Novara.
Nicola Ventola's career began with Bari in 1994 as a youth player. He made his Serie A debut on 6 November 1994 against AC Fiorentina. Signing for Internazionale in 1998 he was showing real star potential, including scoring against eventual European Cup winners Manchester United. However, exactly a year later he was co-own with Bologna (after Christian Vieri's £32 million transfer to Inter from Lazio) and later Atalanta, in a swap deal with Corrado Colombo.[1]
Ventola returned to Inter in 2001 but, suffering from injuries, was not picked regularly for the first team, going on loan once again to Siena in 2003. Crystal Palace signed him on transfer deadline day in August 2004 on a season-long loan but this was wrecked by injury and he only made a handful of appearances. He did however score against Southampton on the penultimate day of the season.[2]
In July 2005 Ventola signed a two year contract with Atalanta, scoring six goals in 29 games during the 2006-07 season.
In June 2007 he joined Torino F.C. on a two-year contract.[3]
Ventola has a son, Kelian (b. 22 September 2003), with Brazilian model Kartika Luyet.[4]
References
- ^ "ARRIVA IL GIOVANE COLOMBO DALL'ATALANTA" (in Italian). inter.it. 2000-06-24. http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?L=it&N=102. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ "C Palace 2-2 Southampton". BBC. 7 May 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4501119.stm. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ "Toro seal triple swoop". http://www.football.co.uk/news/toro_seal_triple_swoop_248186.shtml. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
- ^ calciomercato.it/news
External links
- (Italian) La Gazzetta dello Sport career profile
- Profile on archivio.inter.it
- http://aic.football.it/scheda/178/ventola-nicola.htm
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Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- Italian footballers
- Olympic footballers of Italy
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- A.S. Bari players
- F.C. Internazionale Milano players
- Bologna F.C. 1909 players
- Atalanta B.C. players
- A.C. Siena players
- Crystal Palace F.C. players
- Torino F.C. players
- Novara Calcio players
- Premier League players
- People from the Province of Bari
- Italy under-21 international footballers
- Italian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom
- Serie A footballers
- Serie B footballers
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