Vito Mannone

ACQUIRED: Loaned from Reading FC on 2/10/19

Mannone joins MNUFC from England's Reading FC on a 12-month loan. The 30-year-old goalkeeper first joined the Royals in a transfer from Sunderland in 2017. During his two seasons with Reading FC, Mannone played 47 games across 4,230 minutes, earning 8 clean sheets. Mannone began his professional career at 17 years old when he was signed by the Premier League’s Arsenal in 2006 and made his Arsenal debut the following year during the 2007–08 season.

He spent seven seasons with Arsenal from 2006–13 but was loaned out to Hull City in the Championship League during the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. Mannone played 1,350 minutes across 15 games while with Arsenal and 2,746 minutes across 31 games with Hull City, while recording four clean sheets in his first five games with Hull City. Prior to his transfer to Reading, Mannone spent four seasons with the Premier League’s Sunderland where he won Player of the Year at the Stadium of Light his first season – saving two penalties against Manchester United to take Sunderland to their first Wembley final since 1992. Over the course of his career, Mannone has tallied 55 clean sheets.

Born in Lombardy, Italy, Mannone made his debut with the Italy U21 team in a match against Hungary. He played seven matches in the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification.

2019: Made MNUFC debut and earned first MLS win (2 SV, 2 GA) on March 2 at VAN...Earned second win and first shutout (4 SV, 0 GA) on March 9 at SJ...Earned third win (5 SV, 1 GA) on April 6 at NY...Earned second shutout (4 SV, 0 GA) on April 24 vs LA...Earned fourth win and third shutout (1 SV,0 GA) on April 28 vs DC...Earned fifth win and fourth shutout (0 SV, 0 GA) on May 18 vs CLB...Earned sixth win and fifth shutout (3 SV, 0 GA) on May 25 vs HOU...Earned first win in the Open Cup (5 SV, 1 GA) on June 12 vs SKC...Earned second win in the Open Cup (2 SV, 2 GA) on June 18 at HOU...Earned seventh win (4 SV, 1 GA) on June 29 vs CIN...Earned eighth win (7 SV, 1 GA) on July 3 vs SJ...Earned ninth win (4 SV, 2 GA) on July 6 at MTL...Earned third Open Cup win (2 SV, 1 GA) on July 10 vs NM...Earned 10th win and club single-season record sixth clean sheet (6 SV, 0 GA) on July 13 vs FCD...Kept seventh clean sheet (5 SV, 0 GA) on July 27 vs VAN...Earned 11th win and kept eighth clean sheet (5 SV, 0 GA) on August 4 vs POR...Earned fourth Open Cup win (6 SV, 1 GA) on August 7 vs POR...Earned 12th win and ninth clean sheet (2 SV, 0 GA) on August 14 vs COL...Earned 13th win and 10th clean sheet (8 SV, 0 GA) on September 1 at LAFC...Earned 14th win (4 SV, 1 GA) on September 15 vs RSL...Kept 11th clean sheet (12 SV, 0 GA) on September 22 at POR