Manuel Coppola

Manuel Coppola (born 11 May 1982) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Early career Born in Rome, Lazio, Coppola started his professional career at Tivoli. In January 2004 he was signed by Messina, but spent the remainder of the season at Brindisi. In July 2004 he was exchanged for Marco Zoro, who was already on loan at Messina. Messina also retained the 50% registration rights.

Genoa In June 2005, Messina bought back Coppola and sent him on loan to Genoa. Coppola won promotion back to Serie B in 2006. In mid-2006 Coppola joined Genoa outright for an undisclosed fee, while Messina secured the services of Antonio Ghomsi for free, Daniele De Vezze and Massimo Minetti. He won promotion to Serie A in 2006–07 Serie B. Coppola was not included in the club plan for the 2007–08 Serie A, which he only played once.

Siena In January 2008, he moved to another Serie A club Siena in a temporary deal, with the option to buy half of the registration rights. In June 2008 Siena exercised this option for €1.5 million. In July 2008 Siena also signed Abdelkader Ghezzal (for €3.5 million, Genoa bought him for €2 million in June) and bought back Fernando Forestieri for €4.5 million in June (was €1.7 million a year before (plus €250,000 other fees In June 2009 Parma also signed Daniele Galloppa (in co-ownership for €5M ) and Reginaldo (50% rights for €2.5 million Parma also signed Nicola Amoruso from Turin on the same day also for free.

In the summer of 2011 Coppola left for Empoli F.C. for €300,000 in temporary deal, co-currently Gianluca Musacci moved to Parma also in temporary deal for €300,000. However, none of the Parma new signing actually played for the club and neither Galuppo and Doumbia did, for Siena. Coppola himself left Siena on 24 January 2013, to Cesena. However, in accounting, Siena received a notional selling profit on Rossi (€3,592,198), Iacobucci (€3,394,779), Pacini (€1M) as well as on Parma side (selling profit on Coppola (€1,311,000), Doumbia (€968,800) and Galuppo (€2.4 million) ). Moreover, despite Parma paid €200,000 cash to Siena in June, in July Siena signed Paolo Hernán Dellafiore for €1.8 million in co-ownership deal and sold Gonçalo Brandão to Parma for €1.6 million also in co-ownership deal, however, Coppola again failed to adapt to Serie A football; even Siena was struggling in the bottom.

Cesena In January 2013, he left for AC Cesena in temporary deal; the deal was extended on 4 July 2013. In June 2014 the co-ownership between Siena and Parma on Coppola was renewed again. On 15 July 2014, Siena officially expelled from Serie B due to financial difficulties, thus Coppola became a free agent. On 23 July 2014, Coppola signed a one-year contract with Serie A newcomers Cesena.

Catania On 13 January 2015, Coppola was transferred to Serie B club Calcio Catania on a -year contract. Catania was relegated at the start of 2015–16 season due to match fixing scandal, thus Coppola left the club.

Ternana On 27 August 2015, Coppolla was signed by Serie B club Ternana Calcio in a one-year deal.

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