Luigi Sartor

Luigi Sartor
Personal information
Date of birth30 January 1975
Place of birthTreviso, Italy
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing positionDefender
Youth career
Padova
1991–1992Juventus
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1992–1994Juventus1(0)
1993–1994→ Reggiana (loan)5(0)
1994–1997Vicenza64(2)
1997–1998Inter23(1)
1998–2002Parma67(0)
2002–2005Roma18(0)
2004→ Ancona (loan)9(0)
2005→ Genoa (loan)9(0)
2006Sopron7(0)
2007Verona7(0)
2008–2009Ternana24(0)
Total234(3)
National team
1991Italy U173(0)
1992Italy U182(0)
1996–1997Italy U21 / Olympic9(0)
1998–2002Italy2(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Luigi Sartor (born 30 January 1975) is an Italian retired footballer. Usually a fullback on either flank, he could also appear as a central defender.

During a 17-year professional career Sartor represented ten clubs in his country, also having a brief spell in Hungary. He amassed Serie A totals of 160 games and one goal, over the course of 12 seasons.

Club career

Early years

Born in Treviso, Sartor's Serie A career got off to an inauspicious start, as he scored an own goal past goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi on his debut (and only game) for Juventus FC, in a 0–2 defeat at ACF Fiorentina on 6 December 1992.

After appearing regularly at Vicenza Calcio – where he played mainly as a central defender, playing alongside Joachim Björklund – a runner-up place in the league followed in 1997–98 at Inter Milan, with whom he signed a four-year contract,[1] also winning the UEFA Cup. Previously, in April 1997, he had agreed to sign for Parma AC,[2] but eventually joined that team in the 1998 summer, repeating the UEFA Cup feat in his first season.

Roma

Sartor joined A.S. Roma in 2002 in a four year-contract, with Sebastiano Siviglia going in the opposite direction. The deal was almost a pure player exchange, with both players being tagged at about €9 million.[3][4][5] but failed to become a team regular, with just 12 appearances in 2002–03, being behind in pecking order to Aldair, Walter Samuel, Cafú, Christian Panucci, Vincent Candela and Jonathan Zebina, and starting four matches in the place of Cafú, or accompanying the Brazilian as he moved up front to the midfielder position.

Sartor was also consecutively loaned during his contract, to A.C. Ancona in the second half of the following campaign, and Genoa C.F.C. in 2004–05, after only seven appearances for the capital team.

False accounting scandal

As both Sartor and Siviglia failed to impress at their new clubs, and their nominal transfer was far from they had cost, Italian press reported they might have been victims of administrative doping, which meant a club allegedly inflated the price of a player in order to increase profit. Roma had already been fined for engaging in these tactics in 2007, with youth players.[6][7][8][9]

Late career

After cancelling his Roma contract in November 2005[10] and six months of inactivity, Sartor moved to Hungary's MFC Sopron, joining Giuseppe Signori and manager Dario Bonetti.

In December 2006 he was found guilty by a court of aggravated assault on two police officers, in an away match against Piacenza Calcio as he played with Genoa, on 9 January 2005.[11]

After a quick passage at Hellas Verona F.C. in Serie B,[12] Sartor joined Serie C1's Ternana Calcio, in January 2008,[13] playing in the team until June of the following year. He was arrested on 19 December 2011 for his involvement in the 2011 Italian football scandal and, on 18 June of the following year, he was banned for five years.[14]

International career

Internationally, Sartor appeared for Italy at the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, as the nation emerged victorious, also competing the same year at the Atlanta Olympic Games. He played only once in both tournaments: in the former, he replaced Nicola Amoruso in the 68th minute of the semi-final match against France;[15] in the latter he appeared against Ghana as a starter, being replaced by Alessandro Pistone.[16]

An unused member for the under-23's at the 1997 Mediterranean Games, Sartor made his debut with the main squad in April 1998, in a friendly match against Paraguay, adding another four years later with the United States.

Statistics

International

National team Club Season Apps Goals
Italy Inter 1997–98 1 0
Parma 2001–02 1 0
Total 2 0

Honours

Club

Country

References

  1. ↑ "Luigi Sartor" (in Italian). Inter Milan. Archived from the original on 15 January 1998. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "Sartor cambia idea, dice si al Parma (Sartor changes mind, says yes to Parma)" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 25 April 1997. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
  3. ↑ James Pearson (1 July 2001). "One in one out at Roma". Sky Sports. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Giovedì 4 luglio presentazione dei neo-giallorossi Guardiola, Dellas, Sartor e Bombardini (Thursday 4 July, new Giallorossi Guardiola, Dellas, Sartor and Bombardini presented)" (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 1 July 2002. Archived from the original on 5 August 2002. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Vittorio Malagutti (7 November 2002). "La Roma ha un buco nel bilancio? Per coprirlo basta vendere 26 sconosciuti" [Roma had hole in the budget? Selling 26 unknown players is enough to cover for it] (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Glenn Moore (4 December 2004). "Sensi investigation rocks Roma". The Independent. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Calciopoli: pm, falsi i bilanci di Roma e Lazio" [Calciopoli: PM, false accounts of Roma and Lazio] (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  8. ↑ "Falso in bilancio, chiesti 480 mila euro di multa per Roma e Lazio" (in Italian). Spy Sport. 2 October 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  9. ↑ "Doping amministrativo: condannata As Roma, assolta S.S. Lazio (Administrative doping: AS Roma convicted, SS Lazio acquitted)" (in Italian). Lazio.net. AGI. 30 October 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  10. ↑ "Approvazione della relazione semestrale al 31 Dicembre 2005" (PDF) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  11. ↑ Piacenza-Genoa, Sartor a giudizio (Piacenza-Genoa, Sartor on trial); Popolis, 7 December 2006 (Italian)
  12. ↑ "Calciomercato, ufficiale l'ingaggio di Sartor (Football market, Sartor's signing official)" (in Italian). Hellas Verona. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  13. ↑ Germano D'Ambrosio (6 February 2008). "Ufficiale: Luigi Sartor alla Ternana (Official: Luigi Sartor to Ternana)" (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  14. ↑ "Comunicato ufficiale N°101/CDN (2011–12)" [Official announcement N°101/CDN (2011–12)] (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  15. ↑ Francia – Italia; at FIGC (Italian)
  16. ↑ Ghana – Italy; FIFA.com
  17. ↑ "Coppa Italia Albo d'Oro – 1996/97" [Italian Cup Golden Album – 1996/97] (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

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