Salvatore Pinna

Salvatore Pinna ( born August 23, 1975 in Sassari ) is an Italian football goalkeeper who stands since the summer of 2009 in Pescara Calcio in Serie B under contract.

Career

Salvatore Pinna began his career in the youth team of Sassari Calcio. He left the club in 1994 without a single game for the first team to have played and joined the Serie D club Castelsardo Calcio. Pinna managed quickly to establish itself as goalkeeper of the Sardinian club and played in four years a total of 131 league games for Castelsardo. In 1998 he moved to the fourth division ASD Torres Calcio. After he only acted as a substitute goalkeeper in the first two years, he was able to win a regular place in goal for the Sassareser and defend its position as the top performers in the following years in the 2000 /01 season.

The goalkeeper managed with the now ascended in the Serie C1 club for six years in a row in the league in the third highest Italian league. After the season 2005/ 06, in the pinna of the ASD Torres Calcio made ​​on sporting way for the league, the club was excluded due to its financial difficulties from playing the Serie C1 and ultimately assigned a league lower. The goalkeeper decided the club after eight years to leave membership and to sign a contract at Taranto Sport. After 17 appearances for Taranto he went in January 2007 to league rivals U.S. Grosseto. But even in Grosseto, it did not keep him long, and after only six months, followed by a transfer to Salernitana Calcio his next stop.

In Salernitana he found success to trace back and managed in his first season with the team promotion to the B. Pinna series received it in 32 Serie C1 games only 23 goals and thus contributed to the success of the team. In the 2008 /09 season he secured with the team as the 15th League relegation. In summer 2009, he signed with the club Abruzzo Pescara Calcio a contract. On 24 August 2009 he made his debut for Pescara in the home game against Rimini Calcio, as he had to put up no goals in the 2-0 victory over Rimini.

End of the season 2009/10 with him Pescara reached the summit in the second highest league. In the play-off finals, the team won against Hellas Verona.