Marcello Cottafava

Marcello Cottafava
Personal information
Date of birth8 September 1977
Place of birthGenoa, Italy
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionDefender
Club information
Current team
Latina
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1997–1998Saronno29(0)
1998–2001Carrarese77(3)
2001–2002Lecco25(1)
2002–2007Treviso99(4)
2003–2004→ Giulianova (loan)14(0)
2007–2008Lecce48(1)
2008–2011Triestina97(3)
2011–2012Gubbio34(2)
2012–Latina
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Marcello Cottafava (born 8 September 1977) is an Italian footballer who plays for Latina.

He measures 184 cm, weighing 77 kg.[1]

Biography

Lecce

In January 2007 Cottafava, Alberto Giuliatto and Blažej Vaščák were sold to Lecce in co-ownership deals, for €100,000, €1,300,000 and €600,000 respectively.[2] In June 2007 Lecce acquired all 3 players outright for undisclosed fee.

Triestina

Cottafava joined U.S. Triestina Calcio in 2008. He played for the club in Serie B for 2 seasons. In 2010 he was suspended by the club for 6 months. The club did not award any squad number to him and excluded him from squad and put him to transfer list,[3] but failed to sell him due to his high accounting value of €420,000. He was awarded no.90 shirt and played the first game of the season on 9 January 2011.

He left the club after the club relegated.

Triestina false accounting

In June 2009, he was sold to Chievo in co-ownership deal along with Dario D'Ambrosio, which Cottafava's half right was valued for €420,000 and D'Ambrosio €340,000. In return, Amedeo Calliari and Nicolò Brighenti also signed by Triestina in co-ownership deal, for €325,000 and €425,000 respectively. Thus, the swap deal only involved €10,000 from Chievo to Triestina.[4] D'Ambrosio and Cottafava then returned to Triestina on loan and Brighenti and Calliari were loaned to Lega Pro. The deal made Triestina received a player profit of €840,000 and €620,000 respectively, despite it was false, as the club received nothing but two youth players with speculative potential.[4] On 30 June 2009 the club had a net equity of €2,933,043, (5.2 times equity to asset ratio) which if excluding aforementioned €1.46 million player profit, the club had even worse accounting result of €1,473,043. In January 2010 Triestina bought back D'Ambrosio in 4-year contract and sold Brighenti for €425,000 each.[5]

After Triestina re-admitted to Serie B in August 2010 (to replace Ancona), Cottafava was bought back by Triestina for €210,000.[6] and Calliari returned to Chievo for €220,000, thus a reverse flow of cash of €10,000.[6] Both D'Ambrosio, Cottafava were became the financial burden of Triestina as their accounting value €850,000 and €420,000 had to be amortize as a repayment of false profit gained in June 2009. On Chievo side, Brighenti's €850,000 and Calliari's €440,000 also became a burden for the club, which both were sold in a lower price and Chievo had to write-off the rest as a cost.

Gubbio & Latina

In September 2011 he joined Gubbio, the newcomer of Serie B. Gubbio also relegated in 2012. In August 2012 he joined U.S. Latina Calcio of third division.[7] He won promotion to Serie B with the club. After "out of contract" for 10 days, on 11 July 2013 Latina offered him a new contract for 2013–14 Serie B.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.uslatinacalcio.it/people/164/MarcelloCottafava
  2. ↑ Treviso FBC 1993 srl Report and Accounts on 30 June 2007 (Italian)
  3. ↑ "ESCLUSIVA TMW – Triestina, messi sul mercato 6 giocatori". TMW (in Italian). 11 August 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 US Triestina Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 (Italian)
  5. ↑ US Triestina Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2010 (Italian)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 AC ChievoVerona Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 (Italian)
  7. ↑ "Il Latina ingaggia Cottafava" (in Italian). US Latina Calcio. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Preso Ristovski, prolunga Cottafava" (in Italian). US Latina Calcio S.r.l. official site. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.

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