Ionita to Modena, Gargiulo to Pisa
Exchange of loans between Pisa and Modena between Artur Ionita and Mario Gargiulo. This is the press release from Modena regarding the acquisition of the Moldovan midfielder from former Benevento and Cagliari. The equal role born in 1996 Gargiulo, ex Lecce and Brescia, however, is expected at the Garibaldi Arena.
“Artur Ionita is gialloblù. Born in Chisinau in 1990, Ionita begins to take his first football steps among the ranks of Zimbru Chisinau (Moldovan top league), then the experiences at Iskra Stali first and at FC Aarau (Switzerland) then make him enter the radar of the Italian teams and European. It is in fact in 2014 that Artur arrives in Italy, the yellow-blue shirt is that of Hellas Verona, the team in which he plays for 2 seasons (in Serie A: 49 games with 6 goals). For the midfielder it comes following a call from Cagliari: in Sardinia, for 4 important seasons in the top division, the midfielder collects 125 appearances enhanced by 6 goals. At the beginning of the 2020/21 season, Ionita was sold to Benevento, where he remained for two championships (the first in Serie A and the second in B) before moving to Pisa in the summer of 2022, a team in which he made 16 appearances ( with 1 goal and 1 assist). Strength, quantity, charisma experience: these are the main characteristics of Ionita, already a real pillar of the Moldovan national team of which he is captain (with 67th appearances and 3 goals; debut in 2009)”.