Simone Motta (born 26 August 1977) is an Italian football coach and a former player who is the manager of the Under-19 squad of

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. Motta spent most of his career in Italian lower divisions, scored 85 goals in

Lega Pro Prima Divisione Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

; 32 goals in

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and 23 goals in

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. (as of 2011–12 season)

Biography

Early career

Born in

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with ...

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, Motta started his career at

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youth team. After a season with

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of ...

team

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, he spent 3 seasons in

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

. In 1999–2000 Serie D season he scored 17 goals and won a contract from Serie C2 team

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. He scored an average of 15 goals a season and left for

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1. Before the 1978 ...

side

Teramo Teramo (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Tèreme ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia ...

in 2002. He scored a career high of 23 goals and the team entered the promotion playoffs. He scored a goal in the playoff but the team was eliminated after 1–1 draw with Martina and had fewer points in regular season. His goal scoring ability made him earned a transfer to Serie B club Bari.

Bari

In July 2003, he left for

club Bari, in the first season he scored 3 goals only. In

2004–05 Serie B The 2004–05 Serie B is the 73rd season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy. Teams Arezzo, Catanzaro, Cesena and Crotone had been promoted from Serie C, while Perugia, Modena, and Empoli had bee ...

season he lost his starting place and left for fellow Serie B side

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in January 2005, which the team won promotion to

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due to

Caso Genoa Caso Genoa was an Italian football scandal in 2005. In the 2004–05 Serie B season, Genoa won the Serie B championship and were set to be promoted to the Serie A for the first time in 10 years. Genoa went into their final match of the season ...

, his greatest achievement so for. He scored a goal for Ascoli, and mainly as a substitute. In July 2005, he was loaned to newly promoted Serie B club

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, which he had to compete with

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and

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for the strikers role in

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formation until Floccari departed in January. That season Rimini finished as the 17th place, just above the teams that entered relegation play-out.

Pistoiese

In 2006, he returned to Serie C1 and scored 18 goals for

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. In the next season, he scored 10 goals and 3 more goals in relegation playout, made the team secured a place in

2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season is the thirty-first since its renaming to Serie C1 in 1978, and the first edition since the renaming from Serie C1 to Lega Pro. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from Septemb ...

by winning

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4–0.

Cesena

In August 2008, he was signed by newly relegated

team

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for €142,500 in 2-year contract. He scored 14 league goals with the champion winning side, thus winning a promotion again.

Novara

In 2009, he remained at Prima Divisione, but for

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, in exchange with

Davide Sinigaglia Davide Sinigaglia (born 29 July 1981) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for ASD Cellatica. Sinigaglia had made over 200 games in Lega Pro but only a handful of games in Serie A and Serie B. Club career Sinigaglia was a youth prod ...

. Motta was valued €720,000 while Sinigaglia for €500,000. Motta signed a 4-year contract. Partnered with

Cristian Bertani Cristian Bertani (born 14 March 1981) is an Italian footballer who plays for as a forward for an amateur club Pro Novara. He was suspended in August 2012 for three years and six months. Career Como Born in Legnano, Lombardy, Bertani started ...

, they scored 26 goals and Motta contributed 15 of them as team top-scorer, and won promotion to Serie B as champion. In the next season,

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and Bertani were the starting forward, which Motta moved to midfielder as attacking midfielder in the 4–3–1–2 formation. He made 34 starts in

2010–11 Serie B The 2010–11 Serie B (known as the Serie bwin for sponsorship reasons) is the seventy-ninth season since its establishment in 1929, and the first one under the rule of the new Lega Serie B. A total of 22 teams contest the league, 15 of which r ...

. After a loan to Trieste, Motta signed new 2-year contract with Novara as the club relegated from Serie A. In July 2013 he was released.

Serie D

On 20 September 2013 Motta joined

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Honours

: 2009 (Cesena), 2010 (Novara) *

top-scorer (regular season): 2003 (Teramo)

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile

* *
Novara Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Motta, Simone Italian men's footballers Udinese Calcio players FC Südtirol players SSD Città di Teramo players SSC Bari players Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players Rimini FC 1912 players US Pistoiese 1921 players AC Cesena players Novara FC players US Triestina Calcio 1918 players Serie B players Serie C players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Udine 1977 births Living people Italian football managers