Giacomo Venturi

Born in Faenza, Emilia–Romagna, Venturi started his career at Bologna. He was the reserve team keeper from 2007 to 2011. On 25 July 2011 Venturi left for Bellaria – Igea Marina in temporary deal. Venturi played 37 out of possible 38 match for the club in 2011–12 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. Venturi also received a first team shirt number in 2010–11 Serie A.^[1]

On 17 July 2012 Venturi received a call-up from Gubbio.^[2]

On 10 July 2013 Venturi left for San Marino Calcio in temporary deal, along with Gianluca Draghetti and Manuel Gavilán.^[3] Venturi made his debut in the first round of 2013–14 Coppa Italia Lega Pro.^[4]

On 10 July 2014 he was signed by Cremonese on free transfer.^[5]

On 2 August 2019 he signed a two-year contract with Reggiana.^[6]

On 15 July 2024, Venturi returned to Gubbio.^[7]

Venturi started his national team career in 2005 Christmas Youth Event.^[8] He was one of the few born 1992 players in that event, which was intend for 1990 and 1991 players. In 2007, he entered another training camp for born 1992–93 players.^[9] He finally entered the Italy national under-17 football team in November 2008.^[10] However, he did not made his debut. In the new season Venturi received a call-up to Italy national under-18 football team.^[11] He also travelled to Nigeria with U17 team (de facto U18 team of 2009–10 season or U17 in 2008–09 season) for 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He did not play any game either, which Mattia Perin was the first choice. Venturi received a call-up for goalkeeper training camp after returned from Africa in November 2009.^[12] However Venturi only received another call-up a year later in 2010 goalkeeper training camp.^[13]

Venturi finally returned to national youth team in December 2011 for Italy national under-20 football team. The unofficial charity match U20 beat Italy U21 Serie B 1–0.^[14] In January 2012 he received a call-up against Macedonia.^[15] In February Venturi was dropped as Perin returned to the squad. However, in April Perin withdrew from the squad again and Venturi was re-called.^[16] The match Venturi substituted Alessandro Iacobucci at half time. Italy had a clean sheet in the second half and beat Denmark 3–1.

• FIGC Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
• Football.it Profile (in Italian)