Adriano Zancopè (born 19 November 1971) is an

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football manager and former

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. He spent most of his career in

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 ...

(179 matches) and

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 ...

(94 matches). He also briefly played in

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(46 matches) and

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...

(60 matches). He spent 6 seasons at

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, and also played as a backup

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for by-then Serie A teams

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

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and

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

Club career

Early career

Zancopè started his professional career at hometown club

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. He played 8 matches at

with first team in 1989–90 season, while also played at Primavera Team. From 1990 to 1994 seasons, he left for

and

clubs, where he became the regular at

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and

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Cittadella

In 1994, he was signed by

permanently. He was the regular starter and won 1997–98 Serie C2 runner-up and promoted to Serie C1. He continued to play as the first choice, ahead Luca Capecchi. In 1999–2000 season, he was signed by

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. He played the remain half season as starter, helped the club enter the promotion playoffs but lost in semi-finals (while his former clubs won the playoffs in another group).

Catania

In 2000, he was signed by Catania of

. He played as backup goalkeeper of Gennaro Iezzo but also played 13 matches.

Modena

In 2001, he was signed by

of Serie B in co-ownership deal. He played as

Marco Ballotta Marco Ballotta (born 3 April 1964) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His professional career spanned a quarter of a century, but he was never capped for the Italy national team. He also held the distinct ...

's backup. In 2003–04 season, he played his first Serie A match on 5 October 2003, a 3–0 win against

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In that match he replaced Riccardo Allegretti in the 15th minute, after Ballotta was sent off. In that season he also played 17 starts along with Ballotta. But the team failed to score regularly and ranked 3rd in the least in both points and scored. He left the club at the end of season as Modena relegated.

Siena & Treviso

In 2004, at aged 32, he was signed by

of Serie A. He played as backup of Austrian internationals

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and

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. In the next season, he was signed by newly promoted Serie A team

, exchanged with

Davide Zomer Davide Zomer (born 21 October 1977) is an Italian footballer. Biography Born in Rovereto, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region (''Trentino – South Tyrol'' in English and ''Trentino – Alto Adige'' in Italian), Zomer started his career at V ...

(which promoted due to

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), replaced

who left for Lazio. He played regularly and backup by Slovenian internationals

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and later

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. But the team also failed to score regularly and ranked bottom in both points (later ahead

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due to

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) and goal scored.

Vicenza

In August 2006, he was offered a 1-year contract at

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of Serie B. He replaced the Vicenza legend

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as the first choice, which only about 2-year old than him, ahead

Matteo Guardalben Matteo Guardalben (born 5 June 1974) is an Italian former professional football goalkeeper. Club career Guardalben was born in Nogara, Province of Verona. After five seasons with Parma, Guardalben (along with Nicola Mora and Matuzalém) joine ...

. In the next season his contract was extended, and from Round 2 to Round 15 he was the first choice, but the team ranked 5th from the bottom. He then played as backup of Guardalben and replaced him on the 43rd minute against

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on 15 December 2007. He played the next match as starter on 22 December 2007 which 1–3 lost to

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but handed back to Guardalben in next match. On 29 January 2008, Vicenza signed former teammate

and both Guardalben and Zancopè became backup, and eventually survived from relegation.

International career

Zancopè played for the Italy U-18 side during

1990 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship The 1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship final tournament was held in Hungary. It also served as the European qualification for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship. Teams The following teams qualified for the tournament: * * * (host ...

qualification. He also played once for Italy U21 on 19 December 1990, against Cyprus U21.

Coaching career

In June 2008 he returned to

Calcio Padova Calcio Padova, commonly referred to as Padova, is an Italian football club based in Padua, Veneto. Founded in 1910, Padova currently play in , having last been in Serie A in 1996. The team's official colours are white and red. The team was refo ...

and joined the coaching team. In the summer of 2014 became goalkeeping coach of Biancoscudati Padova, the phoenix club of the original club.

References

External links

Profile at FIGC

Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport
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