Player Profile: Sebastiano Siviglia

By: Franco | August 6th, 2009

Full name: Sebastiano Siviglia
Date of birth: 29 March 1973 (age 36)
Place of birth: Palizzi, Italy
Height: 1.82 m
Playing position: Central Defender
Shirt Number: 13
Career to date:
1989 until 1990 – Audax Ravagnese – 23 appearances
1990 until 1993 – Parma – no appearances
1993 until 1996 – Nocerina – 87 appearances (2 goals)
1996 until 1998 – Verona – 58 appearances (1 goal)
1998 until 2003 – Atalanta – 105 appearances (3 goals)
2001 until 2002 – Rioma (loan) – 5 appearances
2002 until 2003 – Parma – 2 appearances
2003 until 2004 – Lecce – 31 appearances (1 goal)
2004 until present – Lazio – 141 appearances (7 goals)

Now before I get started on Siviglia’s player profile, for those of you who know me, know that I can’t stand the guy so trying to find positive things to write about him is going to be very difficult for me. I am going to do my best to be as unbiased as possible which could mean that I’ll have to keep this as factual as possible. For those of you who are wondering, why does Franco hate a Lazio player? Well lets just say that anyone who plays for the dark side of Rome loses respect from me, that and the fact that he is completely useless and has costed Lazio several games in the past. Enough of that and on to the post…..

Siviglia began his career in 1989, with local side Audax Ravagnese in Serie D. Siviglia then spent three seasons at Parma but he did not make any senior appearances with the gialloblu. He moved on to Nocerina, a club from the Campania region, close to Naples, who were at the time playing in lower divisions. After three seasons and almost 100 appearances with Nocerina, Siviglia transferred to Hellas Verona where he played in mainly Serie B, but also finally made his debut in Serie A.

Following a short stint with Rioma, Siviglia then spent three seasons in Bergamo with Atalanta, before rejoining Parma in 2002. Parma, however, sent him on loan for three years, first back to Atalanta, then to Lecce and Lazio.

In August 2005, Lazio opted to sign Siviglia permanently after his loan spell and he became a starting defensive option for the biancocelesti. During his first season, Siviglia played in three UEFA Cup matches for Lazio. In addition to this, he has also played UEFA Champions League.

During much of his time in Rome, Siviglia has been a first choice defensive option under former coach Delio Rossi and has also scored goals against the likes of Juventus and Fiorentina.

As one of the most experienced players in the squad, Siviglia has deputized as captain on many occasions and before the start of the 2008-09 season, was selected as vice vice-captain (if that makes sense?) behind Tommaso Rocchi and Cristian Ledesma.

Here is a video of probably the best thing Sebastiano has ever done in a Lazio shirt. Be sure you watch it until the very end otherwise you may miss it altogether….

For those of you who didn’t get that, he just basically called “il capitano” of Rioma a “cornutto” – a very offensive word in the Italian language.

With the 36 year old looking at remaining at Lazio for yet another season one can only think (and pray and hope) that his days are numbered and that he’ll either get sold or for God’s sake just resign!! I think I will leave this post at that and as always;

Forza Lazio, Forza Siviglia! (That killed me!)