Egidio Calloni

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Egidio Calloni
Personal information
Full name	Egidio Calloni
Date of birth	December 1, 1952 (1952-12-01) (age 55)
Place of birth	Busto Arsizio, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
	Internazionale
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970-1971 1971-1972 1972-1974 1974-1978 1978-1979 1979-1980 1980-1981 1981-1982	Varese Verbania (loan) Varese AC Milan Verona Perugia Palermo Como	0 (0) 38 (15) 50 (23) 101 (31) 20 (8) 12 (0) 29 (11) 8 (2)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Egidio Calloni (born December 1, 1952 in Busto Arsizio, Province of Varese) is an Italian former football striker, best known for his stint at AC Milan.

A Internazionale youth system product, he then moved to Varese and then on loan to Serie C club Verbania. He returned at Varese in 1972, scoring 23 goals in two Serie B seasons, being noted by AC Milan. Signed by the rossoneri in 1974, he played four seasons with AC Milan as a regular, scoring 31 goals in 101 matches. He became however famous for his several striking mistakes which brought popular journalist Gianni Brera to nickname him "sciagurato Egidio" (Egidio the wretched), after a minor character from Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.

He then played with little success with several other Serie A teams, such as Verona and Perugia, being a backup for Paolo Rossi in the latter. He then moved to Serie B club Palermo, scoring 11 goals in 29 matches (including a single match in the 1981-82 season) and being the rosanero topscorer in 1980-81. He then returned to play at Serie A level with Como, failing however to impress, being featured only eight times, and scoring two goals. He retired in 1982, aged 30.

Calloni currently works as an agent for a national gelato company of Italy. He gained news in 2007 after having been involved in a car accident following a cerebral ischemia attack.