Vito Mannone

Vito Mannone (2009)

Vito Mannone (born 2 March 1988 Desio ) is an Italian football goalkeeper, who has worked for the English Premier League club Sunderland AFC.

Sports career

In the summer of 2005, committed coach Arsene Wenger of Arsenal FC goalkeeper of the Italian young Atalanta Bergamo. He had previously left in a good impression during a game against FC Parma, as Arsenal Arturo Lupoli had primarily be observed at the opponent. " To read the game " Mannone, who showed especially strong in it, and demonstrated technical qualities with the foot, signed a three-year contract and at the same time paid the English Premier League club to the Italian club training compensation in the amount of pounds 350,000 - because Mannone still had not signed a professional contract, a usual contract transfer fee had not been paid. Already on 16 July 2005 was Mannone for his new club in a 4-1 friendly win against Barnet FC between the posts.

On 18 August 2006 it borrowed from Arsenal for three months to the second division FC Barnsley. In the " Tykes " Mannone should challenge the goalkeeper Nick Colgan, but staying in Barnsley should turn out to be unlucky. When he came off the bench after a red card for Colgan on 22 September 2006, he punched the ball with the score at 0-0 unhappy at the head of the opponent's Patrick Agyemang, who scored the decisive winner in this way. In his next assignment under him ran a mistake when he represented the locked Colgan. Against Luton Town he dropped the ball drop on a pass and thus allowed Ahmet Brković - and the opponent for the second time in a row - the decisive goal. This was followed by a serious knee injury and on 23 October 2006, the Barnsley FC and Arsenal agreed that the loan deal may end prematurely and Mannone to London for the purpose of treatment was to return. In January 2007, the Arsenal was negotiating with the Scottish first division club Inverness Caledonian Thistle for another loan. However, since ICT was able to guarantee the young goalkeeper is no use in the first team, this plan was rejected again. Likewise failed other management games in the summer of 2007 with the Scottish FC Gretna.

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

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

Because of the injuries before him placed in the Hackordnunung Wojciech Szczęsny and Fabiański Mannone was ordered into the goal for the first team at Arsenal also on the second matchday of the 2012/13 season. He stayed with his first two stakes at Stoke City (0-0 ) and Liverpool (2-0) without conceding a goal.

In the summer of 2013 Mannone was sold to Sunderland AFC, and signed a contract until 2015.