Salvatore Ferraro

Not to be confused with Salvatore Ferragamo.

Salvatore Ferraro

Personal information
Date of birth	(1983-09-08) 8 September 1983
Place of birth	Catanzaro, Italy
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Cattolica San Marino
Youth career
0000–2002	Inter
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002	Inter	1	(0)
2003	→ Prato (loan)	8	(0)
2003–2008	Milan	0	(0)
2003–2004	→ Pavia (loan)	23	(0)
2004–2005	→ Rimini (loan)	4	(0)
2005	→ Vittoria (loan)	18	(0)
2005–2006	→ Lumezzane (loan)	27	(0)
2006–2007	→ San Marino (loan)	25	(1)
2007–2008	→ Benevento (loan)	39	(2)
2008–2010	Benevento	43	(4)
2010–2011	Lanciano	22	(0)
2011–2013	Ternana	64	(0)
2013–2015	Catanzaro	49	(0)
2015	Grosseto	8	(0)
2015–2016	Tuttocuoio	27	(2)
2016–2017	Pro Patria	27	(0)
2017	Mantova	13	(0)
2017–2018	Forlì	17	(1)
2018–2019	Pomigliano	26	(1)
2019	Forlì	4	(0)
2019–	Cattolica San Marino	10	(3)
International career
1999	Italy U-15	3	(0)
2000	Italy U-16	4	(0)
2000–2001	Italy U-17	9	(1)
2001	Italy U-19	6	(1)
2002	Italy U-20	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Salvatore Ferraro (born 8 September 1983) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender for Cattolica San Marino.

Club career

Ferraro started his career at Internazionale. In 2001-2002 he was part of the Nerazzurri youth team, but made his debut against Feyenoord on 11 April 2002, playing 90 minutes in the return leg of the UEFA Cup semifinal. A few days later, he played his only Serie A game, replacing Clarence Seedorf in the clash against Chievo. In January 2003, he was graduated from Primavera Team (under-20 Team), he was loaned to Prato of Serie C1.

A.C. Milan

Ferraro (half of rights were valued at €1.75M), along with Alessandro Livi, Giuseppe Ticli (50% valued €1.75M) and Marco Varaldi (half of the rights valued €1.75M) were moved to city rival A.C. Milan, and Matteo Giordano (50% valued €1.5M), Ronny Diuk Toma (50% valued €1.5M), Simone Brunelli and Matteo Deinite (50% valued €1.5M) moved to Inter. Both clubs co-owned the 8 players. The deal later criticized as using player transfer to make false profit in balance sheet, it is because the transfer fees were paid via player exchange, but the transfer fees in the balance sheet could be adjusted by the two clubs.

He was immediately left on loan to Pavia of Serie C1.

In summer 2004, he was loaned to Rimini of Serie C1, and then to Vittoria, also in Serie C1.

In summer 2005, he moved to Lumezzane of Serie C1.

In summer 2006, he moved to San Marino of Serie C1.

Benevento

In summer 2007, A.C. Milan bought remaining half player's rights from Inter, for €300,000 (while Giuseppe Ticli's half for €100,000; Giordano to Inter for €50,000, Deinite for €250,000, which only €100,000 cash involved from Milan to Inter, and in 2008 deal between Varaldi and Toma solved by Inter paid Milan the same amount), and Ferraro moved to Benevento of Serie C2 on loan. In summer 2008 he terminated his remain contract with Milan in order to join Benevento in free transfer. It made Milan registered an accounting losses of €25,000.

Lanciano & Ternana

In July 2010 he was signed by Lanciano in 2-year contract. In July 2011 he was transferred to Ternana.

International career

Ferraro played in 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship qualification for the Italy national under-16 football team (now equivalent to the under-17 team). He was then capped for the U-17 team, the feeder team of U-18 team (now equivalent to the U-19 team). In mid-2001 he was promoted to the U-19 team and played few friendlies. In August 2002 he was selected to the U-20 team for a youth event in Alcúdia.

External links

• Inter Archive
• Salvatore Ferraro at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
• Football.it Profile (in Italian)
• FIGC (in Italian)