Christian Riganò
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 25 May 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Lipari, Italy | ||
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| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1997 | Lipari | 73 | (34) |
| 1997–1998 | Messina | 29 | (3) |
| 1998–2000 | Igea Virtus | 50 | (28) |
| 2000–2002 | Taranto | 64 | (41) |
| 2002–2006 | Fiorentina | 94 | (57) |
| 2005–2006 | → Empoli (loan) | 33 | (5) |
| 2006–2007 | Messina | 27 | (19) |
| 2007 | Levante UD | 12 | (4) |
| 2008 | → Siena (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Ternana | 5 | (0) |
| 2009 | Cremonese | 7 | (1) |
| 2009– | San Frediano Rondinella S.S. | 68 | (13) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 February 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of N/A |
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Christian Riganò (born 25 May 1974 in Lipari, Province of Messina) is an Italian football striker who is currently playing with Rondinella Calcio, the second team of Florence.
Career
Riganò started his career with amateur team Lipari, where he gained a reputation of a prolific striker. In 1997 he moved to then Serie D team Messina, but he failed to impress there. This was followed by two season with Igea Virtus, another Serie D team, and 28 goals with the Sicilian side. In 2000, at the age of 26, he finally entered into professional football with Taranto, being instrumental in the rossoblu's promotion in their first season, and an impressive Serie C1 campaign the following year, being crowned Serie C1's topscorer with 27 goals in the 2001–02 season. In 2002, he joined Florentia Viola of Serie C2, and scored a personal record of 30 goals in 32 matches. In 2003, he scored 23 Serie B goals in 44 matches, helping Fiorentina to win promotion to Serie A and earning his Serie A debut in age of 30. During the 2005–06 winter transfer window, he was loaned to Empoli with little success.
In August 2006 he was transferred to Messina, making a very impressive season, scoring 19 goals in 26 appearances, finishing third on the top scorer chart in Serie A. To make it even more impressive, he sustained an injury in January which saw him miss action for three months.
On August 2007 he signed for Levante UD[1] but scored only four goals in 13 matches during his stay with the Spanish side, being then loaned out to Siena during the January transfer window. He was then released for free by Levante after the Valencian club went relegated to Segunda División, and joined Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Ternana on 31 August 2008.[2] His time at Ternana however proved to be disappointing, as Riganò played only a handful of matches, being then excluded from the first team on November. On 2 February 2009 Riganò accepted a permanent move to Cremonese, another Lega Pro Prima Divisione club,[3] where he re-joined Emiliano Mondonico, his former head coach at Fiorentina.[4] He successively left Cremonese at the end of the season.
References
External links
- Gazzetta.it career profile (Italian)
- Official Levante profile (Spanish)
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- Articles with dead external links from October 2010
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- Articles with Italian-language external links
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Italian footballers
- Taranto F.C. 1927 players
- ACF Fiorentina players
- Empoli F.C. players
- A.C.R. Messina players
- Levante UD footballers
- A.C. Siena players
- Ternana Calcio players
- U.S. Cremonese players
- Serie A players
- Association football forwards
- Italian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- People from Lipari
- Sportspeople from the Province of Messina
