Paolo Conti
Paolo Conti ( born April 1, 1950 in Riccione ) was an Italian footballer, who acted on the position of the goalkeeper. In his club career, he was active among other things, for AS Roma, Hellas Verona and Sampdoria. He also participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1978.
Career
Club career
Paolo Conti, born in 1950 located in the Emilian town of Riccione, in the province of Rimini, began playing football at the resident amateur club FC Riccione. There he discovered the talent scouts of FC Modena, followed in 1970, switching to the second division. In Modena, became Paolo Conti at once to the root keeper and played for two years in Serie B football, last year but had to accept the descent into the low ranks. Then Conti joined the club and joined the AC Arezzo, then also second-rate. With the team of Arezzo he reached the end of the Serie B 1972/73 on the 13th place in the standings, which is to evaluate the possibilities of the association in accordance with quite a success. With good performance in their second division football clubs also from the class series A were aware of the young goalkeeper who eventually switched Paolo Conti in the summer of 1973 in the Italian capital for AS Roma.
The Roma was at that time not necessarily to be among the top teams of the Italian football, the year before Paolo Contis arrival one was only eleventh, striking also was a latent goalkeeper problem that coach Manlio Scopigno, a few years earlier sensational master with the U.S. Cagliari, fix with the purchase of Conti imaginary. But even in the first season of the new Keepers in the jersey of Roma there was no great improvement, it ranked again only in the middle and Scopigno was soon dismissed, it started the first era of Nils Liedholm as coach of Roma. Under the Sweden, the performance of the team improved by players such as Giancarlo De Sisti, Bruno Conti Agostino Di Bartolomei or visibly, already 1974/75 to third. Once again it went a little down in the sequence, Paolo Conti experienced in the last year of his engagements in Rome still win the title with his club. In the Coppa Italia 1979/80 they defeated in the final Torino Calcio on penalties and could again secure the national cup final for the first time since 1969. Paolo Conti had already lost at this time, his place in the Roma goal to Franco Tancredi and left the club in the summer of 1980.
Conti went to the following season to the second division side Hellas Verona, where he was a year in the gate and in that time 31 league games made , but only the 14th place in the table it has been achieved barely rose not from you. Then Conti Hellas Verona left back, whilst the association developed very positively, and four years later, the Italian Football Championship brought to the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi. Conti, however, went to Sampdoria, where he rose to Serie A in the first year and remained in the second year there. However, as noted in Verona and previously also in Rome Conti left a club before he began one of its most successful periods. Also Samp developed after Contis leaving an absolute top club, won Championship, European Cup and National Cup. But Paolo Conti went to AS Bari in the Serie C1 and rose with the southerners on the B series. He then moved to Fiorentina, was there not, however, to goalkeeper Giovanni Galli and so came in four years only two league games. 1988 Conti ended his active career finally at the age of 38 years.
National
Between 1977 and 1979 it brought Paolo Conti to a total of seven matches in the Italian national football team. From Enzo Bearzot coach he was appointed to the levy of the southern Europeans for the football World Cup in Argentina in 1978, served at the tournament but only as third-choice goalkeeper behind Dino Zoff and Ivano Bordon. Consequently, Conti was also denied a World Cup bet. The Italian team, however, finished fourth after being defeated in the match for third place in the Brazilian team 1-2.
Achievements
- Italian Cup win: 1x
- Promotion to Serie A: 1x