Italy goalkeeper Marchetti completes Genoa move

Italian international goalkeeper Federico Marchetti, who had fallen out of favour at Cagliari where he hadn’t played since the beginning of the season, has signed for Serie A rivals Genoa, the club confirmed yesterday.

Genoa also announced the signing of 22-year-old Swedish central defender Joel Ekstrand from Helsingborg until June 2015 and Franco-Senegalese midfielder Abdullay Konko for six million euros.

Marchetti, 23, played in all three of Italy’s World Cup matches in South Africa following a herniated disc suffered by first choice stopper Gianluigi Buffon.

It will be Konko’s third stint at Genoa where he played ten years ago with the youth team, then in 2007-2008, before transferring to Sevilla.