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Simone Valli
Personal information
Full name Simone Valli
Date of birth (1995-03-05) 5 March 1995 (age 30)
Place of birth Seriate, Bergamo, Italy
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
FC San Marcos
Number 10
Youth career
2012-2014 Virtus Bergamo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Olhanense 1 (0)
2014-2015 Cardiff U21 6 (0)
2015 Jumilla 13 (3)
2016-2017 Soimii Panchota 4 (0)
2018 Samut Songkhram FC 19 (5)
2018 Surin Sugar KMC 12 (3)
2019 Squadron FC 15 (6)
2020- San Marcos FC 6 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 May 2020

Simone Valli (born 3 March 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nicaraguan Segunda División club FC San Marcos.

Football (Soccer) career

Early career

Born in Seriate, Bergamo, Simone Valli began his youth career with Virtus Bergamo[1]. In 2013, at the age of eighteen, he moved to Portugal and was signed by S.C. Olhanense[1]. After one year, he joined Cardiff[1] U21 team. Then he moved to Spain[1], signing up to FC Jumilla, in Segunda División B. In 2016, Valli joined Romanian[1] Liga II side Soimii Panchota[2].

Thailand

In 2018 Valli moved to Thailand and became the first first Italian footballer to play in a local football club[3]. He was firstly signed by Samut Songkhram FC[3] and after six months Valli joined Surin Sugar KMC FC[3]. In Surin, a town in east Thailand, near the Cambodian border, while in Surin, Valli founded the Italian Soccer Academy to teach local children about European football[4].

Venezuela and Nicaragua

In summer 2019, Valli spent three months in Hong Kong[1] with Squadron FC and North District FC. Then he moved to Venezuela[1], joining FC Yaracuy. However, due to some bureaucratic problems related to foreign athletes, he was forced to leave the team and in January 2020 he moved to Nicaragua. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Valli played until April and, at the end of the season, he was elected Best player for the 2019/2020 season and Best foreigner in the Clausura Tournament[5].

Personal life

Simone Valli travels the world playing soccer. He can speak Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Thai[6].

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Valli, il giramondo che in Nicaragua può allenarsi soltanto all'alba". La Gazzetta dello Sport - Tutto il rosa della vita (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  2. ^ "Serie B rumena: Soimi Pancota, firma un difensore italiano". Calciomercato.com | Tutte le news sul calcio in tempo reale (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  3. ^ a b c Amato, Raffaele (2018-08-20). "Alla conquista della Thailandia: la storia di Simone Valli". Calciomercato (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  4. ^ "Qui Nicaragua: Dove il calcio non si è arreso al coronavirus". Eco di Bergamo (Newspaper(Berliner)) (in Italian). SESAAB. 6 March 2020. p. 56.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Manara, Fabio (2020-05-04). "Il racconto di Simone Valli dal Nicaragua: "Si gioca, ma ci si allena all'alba"". Calcio Atalanta (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  6. ^ "ESCLUSIVA TMW - Valli: "Nicaragua nazione sicura. A Bergamo c'è rabbia" - TUTTOmercatoWEB.com". www.tuttomercatoweb.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-05-28.