Enrico Valentini
Enrico Valentini (2012 )
Enrico Valentini ( born February 20, 1989 in Nuremberg) is an Italian- German footballer. Since 2010, the 1.82 m wide right-footed stands VfR Aalen under contract.
Career
Born and raised in Nuremberg, Italian -born Enrico Valentini began his career in 1994 at the age of four years in the youth of the 1st FC Nuremberg, where he went through all the youth teams in the following years. 2008, the midfielder moved to the second team of the club in the Regionalliga Süd and trained under coach Hans Meyer during the Bundesliga team with, but managed after a knee injury is no longer the leap to the first team. In the season 2009/10 he sat down in the regional team under coach René Müller as a regular player through and has scored seven goals in 31 games after Ahmet Kulabas the second best scorer of the team.
For the season 2010/11 Valentini has signed a two -year contract with VfR Aalen, who had risen in the third league. His professional debut was on October 16, 2010, when he appeared as a substitute in the match against 1 FC Saarbrücken in the 71st minute for Sascha Traut. After the sacking of coach Rainer Scharinger during the winter break began his successor Ralph Hasenhüttl the original offensive players from February 2011 as a left-back. In this position, Valentini won a regular place and so completed twelve of the 16 remaining games before it failed due to an injury the rest of the season. Because he thereby also missed most of the preparation for the new season, another full-back was with Thorsten Schulz committed to his place again lost to the Valentini; this, however, he took in the second half as a substitute for the injured Schulz again. In March 2012, Valentini's expiring contract was extended for another two years until the summer of 2014. At the end of the season Valentini increased with VfR on to the 2nd Bundesliga.
After 2012/13 the majority of the first round came about only as a substitute in the following season for use, he won in November 2012 in the second division a place in the left side of midfield, this could defend to the end of the season, scoring four goals; in the DFB - Pokal, he scored another goal. Yet his hit was nominated for a 1-0 win against 1 FC Kaiserslautern in December 2012 by the ARD sports show for the choice of the goal of the month.
In February 2014 Valentini announced that he will leave the Swabians in the summer of 2014 after four years and until then free transfer move to Premier League rivals Karlsruher SC.
His older sister Roberta Valentini is a musical performer.
Achievements
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the VfR Aalen 2012