Amidu Salifu

{{short description|Ghanaian professional footballer (born 1992)}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name= Amidu Salifu

| fullname = Amidu Salifu

| image = Amidu Salifu 2015.jpg

| birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1992|9|20}}

| birth_place = Accra, Ghana

| height = 1.82 m

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| position = Midfielder

| youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2010

| youthclubs1 = Vicenza

| youthyears2 = 2011–2012

| youthclubs2 = Fiorentina

| years1 = 2010–2011

| clubs1 = Vicenza

| caps1 = 8

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2011–2020

| clubs2 = Fiorentina

| caps2 = 15

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2012–2013

| clubs3 = → Catania (loan)

| caps3 = 10

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2013–2015

| clubs4 = → Modena (loan)

| caps4 = 53

| goals4 = 1

| years5 = 2015

| clubs5 = → Perugia (loan)

| caps5 = 5

| goals5 = 0

| years6 = 2016

| clubs6 = → Brescia (loan)

| caps6 = 13

| goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2016–2017

| clubs7 = → Mantova (loan)

| caps7 = 28

| goals7 = 0

| years8 = 2017–2018

| clubs8 = → Vicenza (loan)

| caps8 = 18

| goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2018–2019

| clubs9 = → Arezzo (loan)

| caps9 = 9

| goals9 = 0

| years10 = 2019–2020

| clubs10 = → Al-Salmiya (loan)

| caps10 = 15

| goals10 = 2

| years11 = 2020–2021

| clubs11 = Petrolul Ploiești

| caps11 = 9

| goals11 = 0

| years12 = 2022

| clubs12 = Kelantan United

| caps12 = 5

| goals12 = 1

| nationalyears1 = 2012

| nationalteam1 = Ghana U-20

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 25 February 2022

| ntupdate =

}}

Amidu Salifu (born September 20, 1992) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as midfielder.

Club career

=Vicenza Calcio=

Salifu started his youth career with Italian club Vicenza Calcio and made his debut with the senior squad in the 2010–11 Serie B season before going on to sign for ACF Fiorentina in January 2011. He made eight league appearances for the biancorossi prior to his transfer.

=Fiorentina=

Following his transfer to the Florence-based club, Salifu was hardly utilized as a first team member. The young midfielder made his Serie A debut for Fiorentina on 23 April 2011 in a match against Cagliari, when he came on as a 90th minute substitute for former club captain, Adrian Mutu.[https://archive.today/20120714213712/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=304798&cc=5739 Game report by ESPN] He would eventually go on to make an additional 12 appearances throughout the 2011–12 Serie A season, before being loaned to Calcio Catania in June 2012. He has made 11 appearances in all competitions for the club since his arrival, generally serving as a reserve for the likes of Sergio Almirón, Francesco Lodi, and Marco Biagianti.

In the summer of 2019, he moved to Kuwaiti club Al-Salmiya on loan.{{cite web|website=Viola Nation|url=https://www.violanation.com/fiorentina-transfer-rumors-news-reports/2019/9/3/20844922/here-is-every-transfer-fiorentina-made-this-summer-loan-move-deal-buy-sell-window-mercato-2019|title=Here is every transfer Fiorentina made this summer|date=3 September 2019}}