Alessandro Micai

Alessandro Micai (born 24 July 1993) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie B club Reggina, on loan from Salernitana.

Micai began his football career in the youth system of his local club, Mantova. He was a member of the Varese under-20 team that reached the final of the 2010–11 Campionato Nazionale Primavera, and as a Palermo player, was chosen as best goalkeeper of the 2011–12 edition. He made his senior debut in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione while on loan to Como in 2012. After spending the 2013–14 season with fellow Lega Pro club Sudtirol, Micai joined Bari, for whom he made his first appearance in Serie B at the end of the 2014–15 season and established himself in the starting eleven in the second half of the next.

Club Career

Youth career

Micai was born in Quistello, near Mantua, in 1993, and began his football career with his local club, Mantova. As a 15-year-old, he played twice in the Campionato Nazionale Primavera for Mantova's under-20 team, but when the club folded in 2010, Micai was released. He moved on to Varese, where again he played for the Primavera team. He came into the side on the sixth matchday and kept his place as coach Devis Mangia led the team to the final stages of the 2010–11 competition. In an eventful semi-final, Varese went into extra time with a two-man disadvantage, having had two players sent off during normal time, had a third player dismissed with 23 minutes still to go, and despite having only eight men against opponents Fiorentina's eleven, held out to take the match into a penalty shootout which they won 7–6. In the final, they came within 15 seconds of beating Roma, only to lose in extra time.

At the end of that season, Mangia followed technical director Sean Sogliano to Palermo to coach their Primavera team, and Micai followed Mangia on a free transfer to play in it. He was voted best goalkeeper of the 2011–12 Campionato Primavera, despite being sent off for over-reacting to Inter's openin