Weight 78 kg Years Team Height 1.88 m | Number 19 Role Footballer Playing position Name Leonardo Pavoletti Date joined September 2, 2013 | |
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Date of birth (1988-11-26) 26 November 1988 (age 27) Similar People Serge Gakpe, Diego Perotti, Diego Laxalt, Mattia Perin, Gian Piero Gasperini Profiles | ||
Leonardo pavoletti leopavo19 piede di porco goals skills assists genoa cfc 2014 2015
Leonardo Pavoletti is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cagliari, on loan from Napoli.
Contents
- Leonardo pavoletti leopavo19 piede di porco goals skills assists genoa cfc 2014 2015
- Leonardo pavoletti all goals 2016 hd
- Early and personal life
- Career
- Sassuolo
- Varese loan
- Return to Sassuolo
- Genoa
- Napoli
- Cagliari
- International career
- Style of play
- Club
- Individual
- References
Leonardo pavoletti all goals 2016 hd
Early and personal life
Known to friends as 'Pavoloso', Pavoletti played tennis up until the age of ten, when he began playing football. His father Paolo is a tennis coach. He also owns a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig called Mou.
Career
Born in Livorno. He started playing in the youth ranks of Gruppo Sportivo CNFO (Cantiere Navale Fratelli Orlando), he started his career at Armando Picchi. Then had spells at Viareggio, A.C. Pavia, S.S. Juve Stabia and Casale showing good goal scoring form. He then went to Virtus Lanciano and was awarded the title of top scorer in 2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season, contributing to the promotion of the team with 16 goals.
Sassuolo
In the summer 2012, he joined Sassuolo, scoring 5 goals in the first 4 league appearances for the Serie B side. However, during the season, he suffered a suspension of 40 days for doping, resulting in positive tests of tuaminoheptane after 26 December 2012 game against Livorno, Sassuolo lodged an appeal against the ban due to the assumption of Rinoflumicil, found in a nasal decongestant. Pavoletti returned to help Sassuolo earn promotion to Serie A for the first time in the history, after playing 33 matches and scoring 11 goals
After two appearances in Serie A for Sassuolo on 2 September 2013, the last day of the Italian transfer window, Pavoletti joined Serie B side Varese on loan.
Varese loan
On 2 September 2013 he went on loan to Varese with the right of purchasing his rights at the end of the season. He made his debut six days later, that won 3–0 away against the Latina of the third game of Serie B, scoring the final goal of the 3–0 victory. On the following game he scored a brace, this time at the expense of Pescara in a 3–2 defeat. He finished the season with 36 appearances and 25goals, with four of them against Novara Calcio in the relegation playoffs after Varese finished 18th, with Pavoletti scoring a brace in a 2–0 victory and then a 2–2 draw to win 4–2 on aggregate to keep Varese in Serie B and condemning Novara Calcio to relegation. With 24 goals, he finished as the 2nd Top Scorer in Serie B behind Trapani striker Matteo Mancosu who scored 26 goals.
On 17 June 2014, Varese exercised their option and signed 50% of the players rights from Sassuolo in a co-ownership deal for a reported €800,000 fee. However, the following day on 18 June, Sassuolo immediately bought the full rights to the player back, for €400,000 net.
Return to Sassuolo
His form during 2013–14 season for Varese reportedly alerted the attention of Steaua Bucharest, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Leeds United. Pavoletti turned down a last minute transfer deadline deal on 31 August 2014 to Leeds United deciding to stay at Sassuolo where he would compete for places up front with highly rated strikers Simone Zaza, Nicola Sansone and Domenico Berardi.
On 13 December 2014, Pavoletti scored his first Serie A goal in Sassuolo's 2–1 loss against Palermo.
After making 8 Serie A appearances, mainly as a substitute, towards the end of December 2014, Pavoletti was again linked with a move to English side Leeds United, he also attended Leeds' 2–0 loss against Wigan Athletic on 26 December, sitting alongside Leeds Sporting Director Nicola Salerno, Pavoletti also attended Leeds' training ground, ahead of an anticipated loan move in January 2015.
Genoa
On 29 January 2015, after turning down a loan move to Leeds United, Pavoletti joined fellow Serie A side Genoa on loan for free, with an option to purchase. In the same deal Francesco Acerbi moved in the opposite direction outright, for an additional €1.8 million, as well as Lorenzo Ariaudo moved to Genoa on loan. Pavoletti had a successful spell scoring 6 goals in 10 Serie A games for Genoa. On 7 July 2015, Genoa signed Pavoletti for €4 million transfer fee.
Napoli
On 2 January 2017, Pavoletti joined Serie A club Napoli, for a reported fee of €18 million.
Cagliari
On 30 August 2017 Pavoletti joined Cagliari on loan, with an obligation to buy at the end of season. He signed a 1+4-year contract.
International career
On 27 August 2016, Pavoletti was called up to the senior squad for a friendly against France on 1 September and a 2018 World Cup qualification match on 5 September against Israel.
Style of play
Pavoletti has been described as a large, "old fashioned" centre-forward, as he mainly operates in the penalty area. He is known in particular for his attacking movement and eye for goal, as well as his ability to get on the end of his teammates' crosses and finish off chances in the six-yard box.