Music: {allcanada} BOLOGNA STRIKER DI VAIO REPORTEDLY SET TO JOIN LMPACT

Thursday, May 3, 2012

{allcanada} BOLOGNA STRIKER DI VAIO REPORTEDLY SET TO JOIN LMPACT

Bologna striker Marco Di Vaio, reported to be headed to the Montreal Impact, has called a news conference to announce his plans for the future.

An item on the Italian Serie-A club's website on Thursday said Di Vaio will meet the media on Friday morning.

The France Football website reported the 35-year-old is headed to Montreal as the Major League Soccer expansion team's first designated player, and that there will be no transfer fee because he is under contract to Bologna through 2013.

Di Vaio, who leads Bologna with 10 goals, would give Montreal a third Italian player after forward Bernardo Corradi and defender Matteo Ferrari. Di Vaio and Ferrari played together at Parma in the early 2000s.

Impact technical director Nick De Santis said this week the club is interested in Di Vaio but dismissed the reports as rumours.

Di Vaio is a popular player in Bologna, where he scored 24 goals in the 2008-09 season, and has said he hopes to finish his career there.