Luca Pellegrini (footballer)

Luca Pellegrini ( born March 24, 1963 in Varese, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer. He spent most of his career for Sampdoria active and won numerous titles with the club at national and international level.

Career

Luca Pellegrini, born on 24 March 1963 at Varese in Lombardy, northern Italy, began playing football at the local club FC Varese, where he first attended the youth departments and was incorporated in 1978 in the senior squad. At FC Varese played Luca Pellegrini, who acted in the position of a defender, his first season in Italy's second league, Serie B. However, for this former first division team was relegated as a Table with only 24 points from 38 games this season. The following season in Serie C1 playing, Luca Pellegrini became the regular players at FC Varese and was one of the major players in reaching the championship in the Girona A with three points ahead of Rimini Calcio. Through his achievements in Varese scouts took notice of higher class clubs on Pellegrini, including that of Sampdoria. In the summer of 1980, the talented defender left his hometown club and moved to Sampdoria in the Serie B.

With Sampdoria Luca Pellegrini first played for two years in the second highest Italian league before the 1981/82 season reached the summit than in second behind Hellas Verona. Similar to Verona also put Sampdoria in the years after the rise of a very positive development towards. In the following years, developed under the coaches Eugenio Bersellini and Vujadin Boškov a very successful team. In the years 1985, 1988 and 1989 won Luca Pellegrini with Sampdoria, where players such as Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini or Pietro Vierchowod were active at that time, three times the Coppa Italia, the Italian Football Cup. In 1986, they once again the final, but lost to AS Roma. Luca Pellegrini was at that time absolute key players in the successful team of Sampdoria. He made 1980-1991 a total of 275 league games for the Genoese and scored four goals in it. He was captain of the team of Samp, who won on 9 May 1990 at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, the European Cup Winners' Cup in the final against RSC Anderlecht. The previous year was Sampdoria with Luca Pellegrini as a captain in the final of this competition, but was defeated by top Spanish club FC Barcelona. His greatest success as a player from Sampdoria celebrated Luca Pellegrini in 1991. He was captain of the team of Sampdoria, the 1990/91 won the first and only championship to date for the club as a first Serie A Table. The last championship game, made ​​it 3-3 on the final day at Lazio, what the last competitive game of Luca Pellegrini for Sampdoria. At the height of his career, the defender left the club and went to Erstligaaufsteiger Hellas Verona.

In Hellas Verona Luca Pellegrini was unable to match the achievements of times at Sampdoria. The Italian champions of 1985, he went immediately into Serie B from, where he played another year second-rate, but missed the direct re-emergence as Tabellenzwölfter significantly. After this period, Pellegrini, now thirty years of age, again the club and joined Ravenna Calcio, also in Serie B play on. With Ravenna, however, he had to accept relegation to Serie C1. After he had completed every single season game in Serie B 1993/94 for Ravenna Calcio, Luca Pellegrini signed for season 1994/95 a new contract with Torino Calcio in the first division. He stood there for a year under contract, but could not establish himself as a regular player. After fourteen missions in league play the Serie A 1994/95 Luca Pellegrini ended his active career as a football player at the age of 32 years. After the end of his career as a soccer player Luca Pellegrini worked as co-commentator and expert on Italian television.

Achievements

  • Italian Championship: 1x
  • Italian Cup victory: 3x
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1x
  • Serie C1: 1x
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