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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1980-10-31)31 October 1980 (age 45) | ||
| Place of birth | Milan, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left back,midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1991–1998 | AC Milan | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–1999 | Pro Sesto | 6 | (0) |
| 1999–2004 | Treviso | 51 | (5) |
| 2001–2002 | →Giugliano (loan) | 33 | (5) |
| 2002–2003 | →AlbinoLeffe (loan) | 30 | (7) |
| 2004–2006 | Cagliari | 71 | (5) |
| 2006–2010 | Fiorentina | 81 | (2) |
| 2010–2015 | Parma | 155 | (4) |
| 2015–2018 | Chievo | 88 | (1) |
| 2018–2019 | Parma | 16 | (0) |
| Total | 531 | (29) | |
| International career | |||
| 2006 | Italy | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Massimo Gobbi (Italian pronunciation:[ˈmassimoˈɡɔbbi]; born 31 October 1980) is an Italian retiredfootballer who played as adefender or as amidfielder.
Born inMilan, Gobbi started his senior career in fourth-tierSerie C2 clubPro Sesto in 1998.
He moved to second-tierSerie B clubTreviso in 1999, from where he was loaned out toGiugliano (Serie C2) andAlbinoLeffe (Serie C1). He returned to Treviso in 2003, where he got his breakthrough. He played 44 of 46 games for the club during the2003–04 Serie B season, after which he moved to the newly promoted clubCagliari Calcio in the top-flightSerie A championship.[1]
He made his Serie A debut on 12 September 2004, in Cagliari's 1–0 win overBologna, and played 71 of Cagliari's 76 Serie A games over the next two seasons.
In June 2006, Gobbi was bought back by Treviso but sold toFiorentina along withReginaldo on 24 June, and Treviso signedGianni Guigou as part of the deal.[2] At that time Gobbi was valued €4.3 million[3] (costedViola €4.54 million[4]), while Guigou was valued €40,000.[3] (but madeViola received an extra cost saving of €200,000)[4] He scored his first goal for the Fiorentina againstJuventus on 1 March 2007.
On 1 July 2010, he became a free agent,[5] before joiningParma on 18 August 2010.[6] Initially deployed in his natural role as a central midfielder, Gobbi's first season at the club saw him become a regular as a left-back from December 2010 onwards as a consequence ofLuca Antonelli's January 2011 departure.
His contract was renewed several times, with his last contract due to expire on 30 June 2015.[7] However, he was released few days earlier due to the bankruptcy of Parma.
On 30 June 2015, Gobbi signed a two-year contract withChievo on a free transfer.[8] He signed a one-year contract on 3 July 2017.[9]
On 14 July 2018, Gobbi signed a one-year contract withSerie A sideParma, he returned after 3 years.[10]
Gobbi retired at the end of the 2018–19 season.[11]
Immediately after joining Fiorentina, Gobbi was called up for theItaly national football team by managerRoberto Donadoni.[12] He made his senior national team debut in a 2–0 friendly defeat againstCroatia in Livorno, on 16 August 2006, coming on as a substitute forMassimo Ambrosini in the 75th minute.[13]