Federica Faiella



Federica Faiella (born 1 February 1981 in Rome) is an Italian ice dancer. With partner Massimo Scali, she is the 2010 World bronze medalist, 2009 & 2010 European silver medalist, and six-time (2003–2005, 2007–2009) Italian national champion. They have won eleven Grand Prix medals.



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[hide]  *1 Career  ==Career[edit] == ===Early career[edit] === Faiella began skating at the age of ten.[1]  She competed with Luciano Milo, with whom she was the Junior Grand Prix Final champion in the 1997–1998 season. She and Scali trained at the same rink under the same coach.[2]  After Milo quit skating, she briefly partnered with a French skater.[2] ===Partnership with Scali[edit] === Faiella / Scali perform a reverse liftFaiella teamed up with Massimo Scali in 2001.[3]  Despite skating together for only a brief period of time, Faiella / Scali were able to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they finished 18th.
 * 1.1 Early career
 * 1.2 Partnership with Scali
 * 2 Personal life
 * 3 Programs
 * 4 Competitive highlights
 * 4.1 With Scali
 * 4.2 With Milo
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

In their second season of competition together, Faiella / Scali won Italian nationals for the first time, and placed in the top ten at the European Championships. A year later, they moved into the top ten at Worlds. In the years leading up to the 2006 Winter Olympics, they continued to make steady progress up the ranks. Prior to the 2005–06 Olympic season, Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio, who won bronze for Italy at the 2002 Games, returned to the eligible ranks. Faiella / Scali became the second Italian team, and finished outside the top ten at the Olympics after a fall in the original dance.[4]

Following the season, they made a coaching change and relocated to the United States to work with Pasquale Camerlengo and Anjelika Krylova at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[1]  They had an up and down season in 2006–07 but enjoyed good results in 2007–08, including a fourth place at the Europeans and a fifth place finish at Worlds.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In the 2008–09 season, Faiella / Scali finished second at the Trophee Eric Bompard and won their first Grand Prix event, the 2008 NHK Trophy. This qualified them for their first Grand Prix final, where they finished fourth. They won their first European medal, a silver, behind Russians Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-euro09fd_5-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  At the 2009 World Championships, a fall in the original dance ended their hopes of medal contention, and they finished eighth.

Faiella / Scali in 2008<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In the 2009–10 Olympic season, Faiella / Scali began their season with a bronze medal at the 2009 Cup of China. They withdrew from their next Grand Prix event due to Faiella's illness. At the 2010 Europeans, they won both the original dance and the free dance on their way to their second European silver medal. They finished fifth at the Olympics. Faiella became ill after the Olympics and returned to the ice only four days before the World Championships.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-worlds2010_6-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  The duo won their first world medal, a bronze, in Turin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2010wch_7-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">At the 2010 World Championships, Faiella / Scali announced that they would return for another season. Their assigned Grand Prix events were the Cup of China and the Cup of Russia. Visa problems delayed their training in the U.S. and Faiella had recurring back problems.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ifs110528_8-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  They again finished third at the 2010 Cup of China after Scali tripped on Faiella's skirts in both programs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2010coc_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  They withdrew from the 2010 Cup of Russia prior to the free dance due to Scali's back injury.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eurosd11_10-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  At the 2011 European Championships, they placed ninth in the short dance but moved up to fifth after the free dance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eurofd11_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  This was their final competitive event.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-retirement_12-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On March 15, 2011, Scali announced on the team's website that they were retiring from competitive skating and that he would work with coach and choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo's team at the Detroit Skating Club.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-retirement_12-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  However, in May 2011, after it became clear that Faiella's healing process was progressing better than expected, they announced through their official website that they would in fact continue to skate competitively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-calling_13-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  The comeback attempt ended after Faiella injured her back, and in 2012 Scali confirmed that they would not return to competitive skating.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AOI52012_14-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2011, Faiella began working as a policewoman in Italy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ifs110528_8-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==Programs<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Faiella / Scali perform their original dance at the 2010 World Championships<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">(with Scali) ==Competitive highlights<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===With Scali<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === Faiella / Scali with their fellow medalists at the 2008 NHK Trophy ===With Milo<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===