Nikita Contini Baranovsky

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Nikita Contini
Personal information
Full name Nikita Baranovsky Contini
Date of birth (1996-05-21) 21 May 1996 (age 25)
Place of birth Cherkasy, Ukraine
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Crotone (on loan from Napoli)
Number 13
Youth career
Atletico Giugliano
2008–2015 Napoli
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014– Napoli 0 (0)
2015–2016 → SPAL (loan) 8 (0)
2016–2017 → Carrarese (loan) 2 (0)
2017 → Taranto (loan) 5 (0)
2017–2018 → Pontedera (loan) 36 (0)
2018–2019 → Siena (loan) 37 (0)
2019–2020 → Virtus Entella (loan) 32 (0)
2021– → Crotone (loan) 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 December 2021

Nikita Baranovsky Contini (Ukrainian: Нікі́та Конті́ні-Барано́вський; born 21 May 1996) is a Ukrainian-born Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie B club Crotone, on loan from Napoli.[1]

Club career[]

Napoli[]

Beginnings[]

Contini was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine to an Italian father Pasquale Contini from Naples, Italy and a Ukrainian mother. When Contini was 3 years old he moved with his family to Giugliano, Campania, Italy.[2][3] He started his football career at Atletico Giugliano in Italy as a boy, he was brought there by his father at a young age who was a youth coach of Atletico Giugliano, he started playing there at the age of 5 often playing in teams with older boys as he moved up their youth ranks.[4]

In 2007 Napoli played Atletico Giugliano in a friendly and Contini stood out with his great performance and impressed then Napoli juvenile goalkeeping coach Luciano Tarallo. Later that year he went on trials with the Napoli Juvenile team and in 2008 he joined the Juvenile team, things started off very well in his first season at Napoli with excellent displays and going on to get awards for the best goalkeeper in the "Niccolo Galli" youth tournament in Florence and the "Cairo Montenotte" tournament in Savona, Italy, when everything seemed to be going perfect for him a serious knee injury (meniscus tear) following a clash with teammate Gennaro Tutino forced him to miss the remainder of the season.[5]

After being out injured for so long he was slowly brought back into the team by coach Nicola Liguori in the next season, he decided to focus on bringing back Nikita into the team by giving him match time and showing off his talent in the tournament "Beppe-Viola Arco di Trento". Nikita played in all the games in tournament which took the Juvenile team (Azzurrini) all the way to the final against Inter Milan after having saved two penalties in the previous match against Atalanta to get them into the final. Napoli was defeated in the final by Inter Milan but Nikita went on to win an award for best goalkeeper of the tournament.

Napoli Primavera[]

On 3 April 2013 Nikita Contini made his debut for the Primavera team in a match against Lanciano he came on in the game to replace goalkeeper Crispino and immediately after coming on saved a penalty on his debut. Nikitas form exploded in the 2013/2014 season with experience in Primavera and in the UEFA U-19 Champions League that grew dizzying displays by the goalkeeper of blue and impressed Primavera coach Giampaolo Saurini. An excellent show of performance came in a win in Germany against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA U-19 Champions League which drew compliments from opponents and applause from the home crowd.[1]

Napoli First Team[]

His performances with the Primavera team didn't go unnoticed and Nikita was called up by Xavi Valero the goalkeeping coach of the first team, he was summoned for the first time on January 6 against Sampdoria by then first team Manager Rafa Benitez. Experience that will be repeated at the home against Swansea in the Europa league. He got called up numerous times in 2014 and 2015 into the first team squad as a back-up goalkeeper but has yet to make his debut for the first team.

He is still just a boy but a serious professional, a great goalkeeper. And I only hope to see him one day make his debut for the first team (Napoli). .

— Gianluca Grava

[1]

Loan to SPAL[]

In July 2015, Contini moved to Spal on loan from Napoli until the end of the 2015–16 season to get first team experience in the Italian 3rd division.[6]

Loan to Virtus Entella[]

On 23 July 2019, he joined newly promoted Serie B club Virtus Entella on loan.[7] He started Entella's season opener on 23 August 2019 against Livorno, making his debut in the second tier of Italian football.[8]

Loan to Crotone[]

On 19 August 2021, he joined newly promoted Serie B club Crotone on loan.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c http://www.canalenapoli.it/news-napoli/talent-scout-nikita-contini-il-gigante-italo-ucraino-sulle-orme-di-taglialatela-140101
  2. ^ "Nikita Contini Napoli, alla scoperta del n°1 del futuro". 25 June 2013.
  3. ^ http://www.italianipiu.it/index.php/personaggi/774-la-porta-del-napoli-la-difende-nikita-baranovsky-contini
  4. ^ "Calcio: Notizie, risultati in tempo reale, classifiche live e Calciomercato".
  5. ^ "Contini nella calza ha trovato il San Paolo. Dallo scontro con Tutino alla panchina di Benitez..." 5 January 2014.
  6. ^ http://www.alfredopedulla.com/articoli/73287-ufficiale-nikita-contini-alla-spal-tutto-confermato-ecco-la-foto
  7. ^ "Ufficiale, Contini è un nuovo giocatore dell'Entella" (in Italian). Virtus Entella. 23 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Virtus Entella v Livorno game report". Soccerway. 23 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Saracinesca Contini per la porta. Benvenuto Nikita!" (in Italian). Crotone. 19 August 2021.

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