Sergio Clerici
Sergio Clerici ( born May 25, 1941 in São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian footballer, who spent most of his career in Italy and played there, among others for FC Bologna, Fiorentina and Napoli.
Career
Sergio Clerici was trained in the youth department of Associação Portuguesa de Desportos in his hometown of São Paulo. As a 19 -year-old in 1960, he took an offer from the Italian club Calcio Lecco, then first class, at. For the club from Lombardy Clerici played from now until 1967 in 201 league games in the first and second Italian league, scoring 59 goals. After relegation from Serie A in season 1966/67, the Brazilian-born moved to FC Bologna, where he was instrumental in achieving sixth place in the 1967/68 season. During that one season, he was in Bologna, Clerici was 22 times used, with four goals sprang. In the summer of 1968 it Atalanta took them under contract, where it is modified in the Serie A in 1968/69 than Table with just nineteen points suffered relegation and Bergamo again turned his back. In 1969, joined Sergio Clerici Hellas Verona, with whom he twice managed to avoid relegation and both times became top scorer of the northern Italians. After 54 games for Hellas Verona and eighteen gates signed him in 1971 Fiorentina. Also in Florence Clerici became a regular player and helped the Fiorentina for the UEFA Cup achievement in Serie A 1971/72 and was also the top scorer of his club. The same was repeated in the following year with fourth and ten goals this season by Clerici. In the middle of 1973, Sergio Clerici went to Campania for SSC Napoli, which he reached in his first season in third place and fifteen goals this season contributed. 1974/75 he was with Napoli Second, what is the best placement in Serie A for the club until then meant also presented one of the best offensive, Clerici reach fourteen goal of the season, striking partner Giorgio Braglia whose twelve. Despite the success with the SSC Clerici left the south of Italy for the 1975/76 season and returned to FC Bologna, where he spent two years in the middle of the Serie A without having to stand out great. From 1977 to 1978 he made his career then fade away at Lazio and was still eleven games and a goal in league play in Serie A, where Lazio secured only slightly with eleventh place only a point before the first relegated Genoa in the league.
Later he was in his native Brazil, where he had never made it because of his activity in Italy to an international match, for a few years coach and coached for one year the teams Palmeiras Sao Paulo, FC Santos and Internacional Limeira, without great to succeed.