Vito Mannone

Vito Mannone
Vito Mannone (2014)
Personnel
birthday	March 2nd, 1988
place of birth	Desio ,  Italy
size	187 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
2003-2005	Atalanta Bergamo
2005-2006	Arsenal FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2013	Arsenal FC	15 (0)
2006	→  Barnsley FC  (loan)	2 (0)
2010-2011	→  Hull City  (loan)	10 (0)
2012	→ Hull City (loan)	21 (0)
2013-2017	Sunderland AFC	67 (0)
2017–	Reading FC	47 (0)
2019–	→  Minnesota United  (loan)	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2009-2010	Italy U-21	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 11, 2019

Vito Mannone (born March 2, 1988 in Desio ) is an Italian soccer goalkeeper who works on loan for the US club Minnesota United .

Athletic career

In the summer of 2005, committed coach Arsene Wenger from Arsenal to Italian young goalkeeper of Atalanta Bergamo . He had made a good impression in a game against FC Parma the year before , when Arsenal had primarily seen Arturo Lupoli at the opponent. Mannone, who above all showed strengths in "reading a game" and demonstrated technical qualities with his foot, signed a three-year contract and at the same time the English Premier League club paid the Italian club a training allowance of 350,000 pounds - since Mannone was still had not signed a professional contract, the usual transfer fee was not due. On July 16, 2005, Mannone stood between the posts for his new club in a 4-1 friendly win against FC Barnet .

On August 18, 2006, Arsenal FC loaned him to the second division club Barnsley FC for three months . At the Tykes, Mannone was supposed to challenge regular goalkeeper Nick Colgan , but his stay in Barnsley turned out to be unfortunate. When he came on on September 22, 2006 after a red card for Colgan, he punched the ball with the score 0-0 on the head of the opposing Patrick Agyemang , who scored the decisive winner in this way. Also on his next assignment he made a mistake when he took in the suspended Colgan. Against Luton Town , he dropped the ball after a cross, allowing Ahmet Brković - and the opponent for the second time in a row - the decisive goal. A serious knee injury ensued and on October 23, 2006, Barnsley FC and Arsenal FC agreed that the loan deal would end early and Mannone should return to London for treatment. In January 2007, Arsenal negotiated with Scottish first division club Inverness Caledonian Thistle for a further loan. However, since ICT could not guarantee the young goalkeeper will play in the first team, this plan was rejected again. Other simulation games with the Scottish FC Gretna also failed in the summer of 2007 .

In the 2007/08 season Mannone was the first goalkeeper of the Arsenal reserve team and the unchanged long-term future perspective of the club underlined the fact that both parties agreed on December 19, 2007 on a new contract. In addition, Mannone was substitute goalkeeper behind Łukasz Fabiański in three games of the League Cup ; however, he was not used in any of these games. On April 19, 2008, he sat against Reading FC for the first time in a Premier League game on the bench. For the 2008/09 season Mannone rose after Jens Lehmann's departure to become the third goalkeeper of Arsenal and took over the jersey with the number 24 that Manuel Almunia had left after taking over the "number 1".

In January 2012, Mannone was loaned to Hull City until the end of the season. From then on he was a regular player for the second division and played 21 league games until his return to Arsenal in the summer.

Due to injuries to Wojciech Szczęsny and Fabiański, who were placed before him in the pecking order , Mannone was ordered into the goal of the first team at Arsenal on the second match day of the 2012/13 season. He stayed in his first two appearances at Stoke City (0-0) and Liverpool FC (2-0) without conceding a goal.

In the summer of 2013 Mannone was sold to Sunderland AFC and signed a contract until 2015. In 2017, he moved to Reading FC , from where the goalkeeper was loaned to Minnesota United in Major League Soccer in February 2019 until the end of the year .

Web links

• Vito Mannone in the database of weltfussball.de
• Vito Mannone in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Vito Mannone in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Vito Mannone in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Tykes loan for Gunners goalkeeper" (BBC Sport)
2. ^ "Preston North End 1 Barnsley 0: Mannone gifts Preston the points" ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The Independent) 
3. ^ "On-loan Mannone back at Arsenal" (BBC Sport)
4. ↑ "No. 1 snag hits Gretna " (icScotland)
5. ↑ "Young goalkeeper signs new contract" ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Arsenal.com) 
6. ↑ Keeper Mannone joins Hull City in loan deal ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Sunderland obliges Mannone  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: transfermarkt.de, from July 3, 2013  
8. ↑ MNUFC signs Vito Mannone , in: mnufc.com, from February 10, 2019