Sergio Bernardo Almirón

Sergio Bernardo Almirón ( born November 7, 1980 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine football player.

Since the summer of 2007, he stands at the Italian giants Juventus under contract. In the 2010/11 season he plays at AS Bari, who hold half of his transfer rights.

Almirón is the son of Sergio Omar Almirón, a member of Argentina's World Cup winning squad of 1986.

Career

The midfielder Sergio Almirón changed in the season 2001 /02 of CA Newell 's Old Boys to Udinese in the Serie A. He did not come through a reserve role out why he after two seasons with only twelve inserts at that Series B club Hellas Verona joined. There he remained only a year before he moved to FC Empoli for the 2004/05 season. Here Almirón could earn immediately secured a regular place in his first season with the new club succeeded in promotion to Serie A. 2006/ 07 was Sergio Almirón to the most important performers of his team and ended with the Tuscan club, which rather than relegation candidates was estimated to Serie A in seventh place in the standings from, which meant qualification for the UEFA Cup.

On 21 June 2007 he was engaged for seven million euros from Italian giants Juventus. As components of the transfers Sebastian Giovinco was loaned out to Empoli FC, ​​the club continued to receive half of the transfer rights to Rey Volpato. With Juve Almirón not succeeded to play in coach Claudio Ranieri's starting eleven. Therefore, the Turin club decided in January 2008 to borrow him for the rest of the season at the French club AS Monaco. The 2008/09 season denied the Argentinian on loan at Fiorentina, where he failed to become a regular player under coach Cesare Prandelli.

For the 2009/10 season Almirón returned to Juventus, where he however did not play any role in the plans of new coach Ciro Ferrara. In August 2009, he was awarded for a year at the newly promoted Serie A AS Bari. In Bari to Almirón established under coach Giampiero Ventura at once as a regular player and completed 27 Serie A games of. He reached the Apuliern with 50 points more points than ever before in Serie A history of the club and closed the season with the team as a table from Tenth.

In June 2010, Juventus sold half of Almiróns transfer rights to Bari, where the Argentine 2010/11 continued to play. In the summer of 2011, the Argentines of Catania Calcio was committed, where he signed a three -year contract.