Midfielder Artur Ioniță is going to play for the third Serie A team in his carrier, having signed for the newly-promoted Benevento.

The Moldovan footballer today is joining his new team, which is managed by the 2006 world champion Filippo Inzaghi, at a training camp in Austria.

The Italian press reported that the transfer deal is worth 1 million euros.

Artur Ioniță has played a total of 174 games in Serie A for Hellas Verona and Cagliari, scoring 12 goals.

Earlier in his career Ioniță played for Zimbru, Iskra-Stal and Aarau. For the Moldovan national team, Ioniță scored 3 goals in 45 games. In 2014 and 2019 Artur Ioniță won the title of the best Moldovan footballer.