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Marco Sansovini

Marco Sansovini (born 17 June 1980) is an Italian professional footballer who last played as striker for Italian Serie D club San Nicolò Notaresco.

Marco Sansovini
Sansovini in 2013
Personal information
Full name Marco Sansovini
Date of birth (1980-06-17) 17 June 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 San Nicolò Notaresco
Youth career
Roma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Roma 0 (0)
1999 → Foggia (loan) 4 (0)
2000–2002 Viareggio 56 (10)
2002–2004 Sassari Torres 39 (3)
2003 → Tivoli (loan) 9 (4)
2004–2006 Pro Sesto 65 (18)
2006–2009 Grosseto 55 (15)
2007 → Manfredonia (loan) 14 (3)
2007–2008 → Pescara (loan) 29 (15)
2009–2012 Pescara 110 (31)
2012–2014 Spezia 52 (21)
2014 → Novara (loan) 19 (8)
2014–2015 Entella 19 (4)
2015 → Pescara (loan) 15 (6)
2015–2017 Pescara 5 (0)
2016 → Cremonese (loan) 14 (6)
2016–2017 → Teramo (loan) 40 (9)
2017–2018 Fermana 29 (5)
2018–2019 Modena 33 (8)
2019– San Nicolò Notaresco
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 Jul 2019

Sansovini was nicknamed "Il Sindaco".[2]

Career

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Early career

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Born in Rome, capital of Italy, Sansovini started his professional career at A.S. Roma. He was loaned to Serie C1 club Foggia in 1998–99 season.[citation needed] In mid-2000 he left for Serie C2 club Viareggio in a co-ownership deal for a peppercorn fee of 1 million Italian lire (about €516) along with Andrea Giallombardo.[3] He only scored twice in 2000–01 Serie C2. In June 2001 Roma gave up the remain 50% registration rights of both Giallombardo and Sansovini.[4] In 2001–02 Serie C2, Sansovini found a way to score with 8 goals. In 2002–03 he changed to play for Serie C1 club Sassari Torres. However, he only scored once in the first half of the season. In January 2003 he was loaned[citation needed] to fourth-tier team Tivoli. Sansovini only played 9 times, but with an impressive 4 goals, nearly 0.44 goals per game. Sansovini returned to Sardegna in 2003–04 Serie C1. However, he only played 615 minutes in the whole season with 2 goals.

Sansovini transferred to Pro Sesto of Italian fourth-tier in mid-2004. He netted 7 goals for the 2004–05 Serie C2 Group A champion. He also scored even more goals in 2005–06 Serie C1 (11 goals). Sansovini previously only had 3 Serie C1 goals in his accounts, with Torres. However Pro Sesto also had a second least goal scoring record and none of a players scored in the relegation "play-out". His striking partners, all failed to score. (Marcos de Paula, 4 goals in half season; Leandro Lázzaro, twice; Claudio Salvi, once) However Pro Sesto re-admitted to Italian third-tier as numbers of club was expelled from that division due to different reasons. Despite remaining in Serie C1, Sansovini was sold to fellow third-tier club Grosseto.[citation needed]

Grosseto

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Sansovini was signed by Grosseto in mid-2006. He had a mix seasons with the Tuscany club. Sansovini did not have a place in 2006–07 Serie C1. He also failed to score in the first half of the season until he left for Manfredonia.

In late August 2007 he left for Pescara.[5] The team was newly relegated from Serie B while Grosseto promoted to 2007–08 Serie B as third division group A winner. Once again Sansovini won a place in starting eleven and converted the chance to 16 goals. However Franco Lerda did not trust any one of the rest of the strikers, while he used forwards such as Luis Maria Alfageme (half-season), Nico De Lucia (half-season) and Nicola Falomi (half-season) as the partner of Sansovini in the formation. Despite the rotation of the squad, Pescara collected the most goals among the group and missed the promotion both by aggregate result against Perugia and 1 point penalty.

Sansovini's ability made Grosseto offering second chance to him. In his maiden second division, Sansovini scored 15 goals, a goal shy than last season (16 goals). His goal scoring partner Thomas Pichlmann also scored a considerable goals (12 goals) but not for Alessandro Pellicori, Ferdinando Sforzini (half-season) and Marco Carparelli (half-season). Grosseto entered the promotion play-off, losing to Livorno 4–3 in the first round/semi-finals. Eventually Livorno was the winner. Sansovini played both match with only one goal, while his partner Pichlmann (first match) and Pellicori (second match) failed to score.[6][7] In 2009–10 Serie B, Sansovini was the starting forward along with Pichlmann. He failed to score and he was surprisingly sold to third division club Pescara on the last day of summer transfer window. On the same day Grosseto signed Joelson as replacement and Alfageme few days earlier, in temporary deal and co-ownership deal for peppercorn respectively.

Return to Pescara

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On 31 August 2009, he returned to Pescara in a definitive deal, in a four-year contract for €600,000 transfer fee,[8] rejoining former Grosseto coach Antonello Cuccureddu.[9] Despite Sansovini was one of the starting forward with 26 starts, Sansovini only scored 4 times, only 1 more than his backup Francesco Zizzari and Mario Artistico (half-season). Another new signing Massimo Ganci scored 8 goals with lesser start and Samuele Olivi scored 4 goals as a defender. Both Sansovini and Ganci scored in the promotion playoffs of the third division and Pescara promoted.

Sansovini again found his shoes in 2010–11 Serie B with 11 goals. However Ganci and new signing Cristian Bucchi and Stefano Giacomelli all failed to score. Instead, winger Massimo Bonanni was the second goalscorer of the team with 5 goals only. Pescara finished in the mid-table (13th /22teams) with 16th goal scored and 9th least goal conceded.

Sansovini remained in the starting XI in 2011–12 Serie B. That season Zdeněk Zeman used 4–3–3 formation.[10][11][12] That season, Sansovini played 41 rounds with 16 goals, scoring his first ever hat-trick on 22 October 2011 in Pescara's 4-1 win against Ascoli. Pescara also signed Juventus wonder-kid Ciro Immobile and Napoli rising star Lorenzo Insigne. The team had the most powerful goal scoring ability with 90 goals; Immobile was the league topscored with 28 goals, while Insigne had 18 goals and Sansovini was the third of the team.

By the end of the season, Sansovini totalled 39 goals in a Pescara shirt, overtaking club legend Bruno Nobili as Pescara's top-scorer of all times.

Spezia

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Despite failed to keep Immobile and Insigne whom both joined Pescara in temporary deals, as well as coach Zeman, Sansovini also left the club on 21 June 2012 to Serie B newcomer Spezia for €150,000 fee in a two-year contract.[13][14][15][16] On 25 July 2013, Sansovini added one more year to the contract.[17] On 10 January 2014, he was signed by Novara in temporary deal.[18][19]

Virtus Entella

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On 19 July 2014, he was signed by Virtus Entella.[20]

Second return to Pescara

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On 2 February 2015, Sansovini returned to Pescara in a temporary deal; Aniello Cutolo moved to opposite direction on the same day.[21][22] On 27 June Pescara signed him outright.[23]

On 27 January 2016, Sansovini was signed by Lega Pro club Cremonese in a temporary deal.[24]

Teramo

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On 20 July 2016, Sansovini left for Teramo in a two-year loan.[2]

Serie D

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On 5 August 2019, he joined Serie D club San Nicolò Notaresco.[25]

Coaching career

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Sansovini was appointed as coach of Pescara's under-16 team in the summer of 2020. In February 2021, he was promoted to the first team as the assistant of head coach Gianluca Grassadonia.

In the summer of 2021, he leaves Pescara to become the new manager of SPAL's under-16 team. At the end of the season, he doesn't renew his contract with the club from Ferrara.

In November 2022, Sansovini is appointed as head coach of Ortona, a club playing in the Abruzzo Eccellenza league. However, he is not able to avoid relegation, with the team dropping down to Promozione.

In August 2023, Sansovini joined Pineto and is currently in charge of the club's Primavera team.

Honours

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Pro Sesto

Grosseto

Pescara

References

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  1. ^ Pescara profile (in Italian)
  2. ^ a b "Il "Sindaco" e' biancorosso!" (in Italian). S.S. Teramo Calcio. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. ^ "AS Roma Half Year Financial Report on 31 December 2000" (PDF). AS Roma (in Italian). Re-published by Borsa Italiana. 2 April 2001. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Comunicati Stampa N°175 (2000–01): Campagna trasferimenti". Lega Calcio (in Italian). 28 June 2001. Retrieved 30 December 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ http://www.legaserieb.it/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=75129928-8d3b-42d1-9ae5-8858738933e1&groupId=115051
  7. ^ http://www.legaserieb.it/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=e96d7f33-f216-412d-9126-717cd9b14dcd&groupId=115051
  8. ^ Delfino Pescara 1936 S.r.l. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2010, PDF purchased from Italian CCIAA
  9. ^ "Mercato". Delfino Pescara 1936 (in Italian). 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  10. ^ "Reggina-Pescara 4-2, Missi, Campa e Ceravolo trascinano la Reggina". Reggina Calcio (in Italian). 17 September 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  11. ^ "L'internet cronaca di Pescara - Padova 1-1". Calcio Padova (in Italian). 12 November 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  12. ^ "Hellas Verona-Pescara 1-2". hellasverona.it (in Italian). 26 August 2011. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  13. ^ Delfino Pescara 1936 S.r.l. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2013, PDF purchased from Italian CCIAA
  14. ^ Spezia Calcio S.r.l. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2013 (in Italian)
  15. ^ "Mercato: per le Aquile i gol di bomber Sansovini" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  16. ^ "Ufficiale: acquisizioni e cessioni" (in Italian). Delfino Pescara 1936. 1 July 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  17. ^ "Ufficiale: capitan Sansovini rinnova fino al 2015" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  18. ^ "MARCO SANSOVINI E' UN NUOVO GIOCATORE NEL NOVARA CALCIO" (in Italian). Novara Calcio. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  19. ^ "Mercato: Marco Sansovini in prestito al Novara" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  20. ^ "Mercato: Marco Sansovini si trasferisce alla Virtus Entella" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio. 19 July 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  21. ^ "ULTIMO COLPO - SCAMBIO CON IL PESCARA: CUTOLO A CHIAVARI, SANSOVINI IN ABRUZZO" (in Italian). Virtus Entella. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  22. ^ "Speciale calciomercato" (in Italian). Delfino Pescara 1936. 3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015.
  23. ^ "Alcuni movimenti del Pescara in questa prima fase di mercato" (in Italian). Delfino Pescara 1936. 27 June 2015. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  24. ^ "Marco Sansovini in grigiorosso" (in Italian). U.S. Cremonese. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  25. ^ "GRANDE COLPO DI MERCATO: FIRMATO MARCO SANSOVINI" (Press release) (in Italian). San Nicolò Notaresco. 5 August 2019.
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