Francesco Valiani (born 29 October 1980) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for an amateur side Hellas Chiesina.
His final game (and goal) for Rimini was on 2008-01-26 and, ironically, against the team he would join the next week.
[3] On 29 January 2010 Parma signed the midfielder from Bologna in return for winger Andrea Pisanu on joint ownership deals, both 50% registration rights of the players were tagged for €2.5 million.
[7][8] On 14 July 2012, Parma sold Valiani outright to fellow Serie A club Siena[9] for just €100,000.
[10] In June and July 2012 Siena and Parma also made cash-less players only swap, namely: Brandão, Iacobucci, Pacini and Rossi of Siena for a total of €5.6 million; Coppola, Dellafiore, Doumbia and Galuppo of Parma also for a total of €5.6 million.