Emanuele Manitta

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Emanuele Manitta
Personal information
Full name	Emanuele Manitta
Date of birth	January 12, 1977 (1977-01-12) (age 31)
Place of birth	Caltagirone, Italy
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Messina
Number	20
Youth clubs
1994-1995	Bari
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-2003 2000-2001 2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-	Ragusa Peloro Messina → Lecce (loan) → Napoli (loan) Napoli Catanzaro Bologna Livorno Messina	12 (0) 30 (0) 140 (0) 0 (0) 8 (0) 41 (0) 16 (0) 2 (0) 8 (0) 1 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Emanuele Manitta (born on January 12, 1977 in Caltagirone) is an Italian football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Messina.

Contents 1 Football career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Messina 1.3 Late career 1.4 Honours and awards

[edit] Football career

[edit] Early career

A native of Sicily, he spent one season at youth rank of A.S. Bari before moved to Sicilian club U.S. Ragusa, at that time at Serie D. He then moved to Peloro Calcio of Serie D. In summer 1997, Peloro merged with Messina, at that time at Serie D.

[edit] Messina

At Messina, he helped the club promoted to Serie C2 at summer 1998, and promoted to Serie C1 at summer 2000.

He won a loan contract from U.S. Lecce in summer 2000, but did not play.

He returned to Messina in summer 2001, this time at Serie B.

He won another loan contract from S.S.C. Napoli (Serie B) in January 2003, to replace Marco Storari, later the move became permanent. He played 41 out of 42 Serie B games that season.

But Napoli faced bankrupt in summer 2004, he started his career that finding a club in every summer.

[edit] Late career

He was first for Catanzaro (Serie B), but the club almost failed to protect her place on Serie B. He then joined Bologna as backup of Gianluca Pagliuca in Serie B, where he just made 2 appearances.

In summer 2006, he joined Livorno, where he made the Serie A debut on 21 January 2007 1-1 draw verse A.S. Roma. As a backup for Marco Amelia, he also played 8 Serie A games, but none at UEFA Cup 2006-07.

In summer 2007, he moved back to Messina.

[edit] Honours and awards

Winners

• Serie D: 1998
• Serie C2: 2000

v • d • e F.C. Messina Peloro – current squad 1 Paoletti • 3 Bombara • 5 Surraco • 6 Stendardo • 7 Minetti • 8 Pestrin • 9 Moro • 10 Córdova • 11 Biancolino • 12 Petrocco • 13 Rea • 14 Zanchi • 17 Giosa • 18 Foti • 18 Arigò • 19 Parisi • 20 Manitta • 21 Lazzari • 22 Degano • 23 D'Aversa • 24 Coppola • 25 Schetter • 26 Nolè • 27 Gaveglia • 28 Giordani • 29 Galeoto • 30 Bernardo • Coach: Di Costanzo