Aimo Diana

Infobox Football biography


playername = Aimo Diana
fullname = Aimo Stefano Diana
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1978|1|2
cityofbirth = Brescia
countryofbirth = Italy
height = height|m=1.80
clubnumber = 19
currentclub = Torino
position = Right back, right wing
youthyears =
youthclubs = Brescia
years = 1996–2001
1999–2000
2001–2003
2003
2003–2006
2006–2008
2008–
clubs = Brescia
→ Verona (co-ownership)
Parma
→ Reggina (loan)
Sampdoria
Palermo
Torino
caps(goals) = 093 0(4)
025 0(0)
026 0(1)
016 0(1)
065 (10)
041 0(2)

nationalyears = 2004–
nationalteam = Italy
nationalcaps(goals) = 013 0(1)
pcupdate = May 2, 2007
ntupdate = October 25, 2006

Aimo Stefano Diana (born 2 January 1978 in Brescia) is an Italian footballer for Torino of Serie A and the Italy national football team. He is 180 cm tall and weighs 72 kg.

Club career

A product of the Brescia youth team, Diana debuted for the first team in a Serie B match on 1997, and played his first Serie A match on August 31 1997, against Inter Milan. He was loaned out to Hellas Verona in 1999 before leaving Brescia for Parma.

Unfortunately, he did not obtain particularly success with the Emilian side, and he left Parma on January 2003 in a six-months loan to Reggina, and then signed for Sampdoriain the end of that season. Diana has since become one of the key members of Sampdoria.

In 2006, he signed for Palermo, where he played a total of 41 league matches with two goals, including the equalizer in a 2–1 win by the "Rosanero" against AC Milan. On January 30 2008, Diana was announced to have been sold to Torino in a permanent move. [cite web|url=http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/it/0708/news_scheda.jsp?id=8420|publisher=US Città di Palermo|language=Italian|title=Diana e Pisano al Torino|accessdate=2008-01-30|date=2008-01-30]

International career

After impressing for Sampdoria, Diana quickly gained a number of call-ups in the Italy's national team, debutting in a friendly match against Spain on April 28 2004. He was a regular for Marcello Lippi on the Nazionale but an injury prevented him from going to Germany for the 2006 World Cup

References

External links

* [http://www.ilpalermocalcio.it/en/0607/scheda.jsp?id=3809 Diana's profile (from US Palermo official website)]

Persondata
NAME= Diana, Aimo Stefano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Diana, Aimo
SHORT DESCRIPTION=footballer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1978-1-2
PLACE OF BIRTH= Brescia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=