![]() Vignato with Monza in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 24 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Negrar, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Monza | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 80 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
–2010 | Pieve | ||||||||||||||||
2010–2021 | ChievoVerona | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2021 | ChievoVerona | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2021– | Monza | 24 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2019 | Italy U15 | 4 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Italy U16 | 12 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Italy U18 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2021–2023 | Italy U19 | 16 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:32, 8 October 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023 |
Samuele Vignato (born 24 February 2004) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Monza.
Vignato was born on 24 February 2004 in Negrar in the Province of Verona, Italy, to Italian father Davide and a Brazilian mother Shèrida.[1][2] Having begun playing youth football at local club Pieve,[2] Vignato joined ChievoVerona's youth sector aged six.[1]
After having played for ChievoVerona's under-17s, Vignato was promoted to their Primavera (under-19) side, scoring 14 goals and making 11 assists in 18 games in the 2020–21 Campionato Primavera 2 season.[1][2] He made his first-team debut for Chievo on 4 May 2021, as a 76th-minute substitute in a Serie B game against Cremonese.[3][4] Vignato finished the season with two league games, having also played against Virtus Entella as a substitute.[1]
On 11 August 2021, Vignato joined Serie B side Monza on a three-year deal.[1] He made his debut on 29 August, playing the first half of a 1–0 league win against Cremonese.[5] On 25 September, Vignato scored his first professional goal, in a 3–1 Serie B win against Pordenone.[6] He became the first player born in 2004 to score in an Italian professional league.[7]
On 25 February 2022, Vignato's contract was extended until 30 June 2025.[8] After having helped Monza gain promotion to the Serie A for the first time in their history, Vignato made his Italian top-flight debut in the 2022–23 Serie A on 7 November 2022, as a stoppage-time substitute in a 2–0 home win against Hellas Verona.[9]
On Vignato's first game as a starter, on 8 October 2023, he scored his first Serie A goal in a 3–0 home win against Salernitana.[10] He became the first player born in 2004 to score in the Italian top flight,[11] and the youngest Monza player to do so.[12]
Eligible to also represent Brazil internationally, Vignato played for Italy at under-15, under-16 and under-18 levels.[13] Having played 16 games for the under-16s, Vignato made his under-18 debut in a friendly against Austria in June 2021.[1]
Vignato was first called up to the under-19 team on 4 August 2022, for a friendly game against Albania on 10 August.[14] In June 2023, he was included in the Italian squad for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Malta,[15] where the Azzurrini eventually won their second continental title.[16][17]
Mainly an attacking midfielder,[18] Vignato can also play as a mezzala.[4] His main characteristics are his dribbling and technical abilities.[4]
Vignato's brother, Emanuel, is also a professional football player.[4]
Club | Season | League | Coppa Italia | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Chievo | 2020–21 | Serie B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Monza | 2021–22 | Serie B | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
2022–23 | Serie A | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | ||
2023–24 | Serie A | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 7 | 1 | ||
Total | 24 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 | ||
Career total | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
Italy U19