Antonio Rigamonti (born April 5, 1949) is a retired

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professional

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player.

Career

Born in

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, Rigamonti began playing football with Atalanta. He made his

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

debut against Internazionale on 3 October 1971. He played for 6 seasons (61 games, 3 goals) in the

for

Atalanta B.C. Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio (), commonly referred to as Atalanta, is a professional Association football, football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, who compete in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system, Italian league ...

Calcio Como Como 1907 () is an Italian professional football club based in Como, Lombardy. The club competes in the Serie A, the first tier of Italian football league system, Italian football, after achieving promotion in the 2023–24 Serie B, 2023–24 Se ...

A.C. Milan (), commonly referred to as Milan or AC Milan () mainly outside of Italy, is an Italian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tie ...

and

U.S. Cremonese Unione Sportiva Cremonese, commonly referred to as Cremonese, is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Cremona, Lombardy, which plays in Serie A following their promotion from Serie ...

. For most of his

career he was the backup to

Enrico Albertosi Enrico "Ricky" Albertosi (; born 2 November 1939) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of Italy's greatest ever goalkeepers, he had a successful club career, winning titles with Fiorentina, Cagliari, and Mi ...

, until Albertosi was disqualified in the

Totonero 1980 Totonero 1980 or Totonero was a match-fixing scandal in Italy in 1980 in Serie A and Serie B. The participants in this scandal were Avellino, Bologna, Lazio, Milan, and Perugia of Serie A and Palermo and Taranto of Serie B, all of whom were declar ...

betting scandal, and Rigamonti became the first-choice goalkeeper for the last 10 games with Milan. In a rare case for a goalkeeper, he was a penalty-kick taker with

, scoring 6 goals, including 3 in the Serie A.

Honours

champion: 1978/79. *

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winner: 1976/77.

References

1949 births Living people Sportspeople from Carate Brianza Italian men's footballers Serie A players Atalanta BC players US Cremonese players Como 1907 players AC Milan players SSD Varese Calcio players ACR Messina players ASD Akragas 2018 players Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from the Province of Monza e Brianza 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-goalkeeper-stub