on 5 august 2009 he joined bassano on free transfer. he played a career high of 13 games, and in june his contract was extended. that season despite finished seventh in the group b of 2009–10 lega pro seconda divisione, the team promoted to "prima divisione" to fill the vacancies by the bankrupted teams. he only played 4 times in his maiden "prima divisione" season before moved to fellow "prima divisione" team viareggio (but from another group, group b), in exchange with forward cristian longobardi. he was the understudy of nicolò brighenti; just played four times: started once as right-back (but sent off at first half), replacing centre-back lorenzo fiale once and left-back davide bertolucci twice respectively.