Salvatore Ferraro


Salvatore Ferraro is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

Club career

Ferraro started his career at Inter Milan. In 2001-2002 he was part of the Nerazzurri youth team, but made his debut against Feyenoord on 11 April 2002, playing 90 minutes in the return leg of the UEFA Cup semifinal. A few days later, he played his only Serie A game, replacing Clarence Seedorf in the clash against Chievo. In January 2003, he was graduated from Primavera Team (under-20 Team), he was loaned to Prato of Serie C1.

A.C. Milan

Ferraro, along with Alessandro Livi, Giuseppe Ticli and Marco Varaldi were moved to city rival A.C. Milan, and Matteo Giordano, Ronny Diuk Toma, Simone Brunelli and Matteo Deinite moved to Inter. Both clubs co-owned the eight players. The deal later criticized as using player transfer to make false profit in balance sheet, it is because the transfer fees were paid via player exchange, but the transfer fees in the balance sheet could be adjusted by the two clubs.
He was immediately left on loan to Pavia of Serie C1.
In summer 2004, he was loaned to Rimini of Serie C1, and then to Vittoria, also in Serie C1.
In summer 2005, he moved to Lumezzane of Serie C1.
In summer 2006, he moved to San Marino of Serie C1.

Benevento

In summer 2007, A.C. Milan bought remaining half player's rights from Inter, for €300,000, and Ferraro moved to Benevento of Serie C2 on loan. In summer 2008 he terminated his remain contract with Milan in order to join Benevento in free transfer. It made Milan registered an accounting losses of €25,000.

Lanciano & Ternana

In July 2010 he was signed by Lanciano in two-year contract. In July 2011 he was transferred to Ternana.

International career

Ferraro played in 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship qualification for the Italy national under-16 football team. He was then capped for the U-17 team, the feeder team of U-18 team. In mid-2001 he was promoted to the U-19 team and played few friendlies. In August 2002 he was selected to the U-20 team for a youth event in Alcúdia.