Eraldo Pecci (; born 12 April 1955) is an Italian writer, pundit, and former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

, who played as a

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Club career

During his club career, Pecci played for

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Florence, Tuscany. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while ...

S.S.C. Napoli Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (), commonly known as SSC Napoli or simply Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania that currently competes in the Serie A, the highest league of Italian football. Napoli are am ...

and

Torino Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

, winning a

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with Bologna, and a

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title with Torino.

International career

Pecci represented the

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on 6 occasions between 1975 and 1978, and he was a member of the

1978 FIFA World Cup The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a Anniversary#Latin-derived numerical names, quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It wa ...

squad, during which Italy managed a fourth-place finish.

Honours

Club

;Bologna *Coppa Italia: 1973–74 ;Torino *Serie A: 1975–76

Individual

Serie A Team of The Year The AIC Serie A Team of the Year (in Italian: ''Squadra dell’anno AIC'') is an annual award given to a set of eleven footballers in the top tier of Football in Italy, Italian football, the Serie A, who are considered to have performed the best d ...

: 1984 *

Torino FC Hall of Fame This is a list of Torino FC players who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame Granata. History The Hall of Fame Granata (''granata'' is the English for "maroon", the club's traditional colour) was created by the Museo del Grande Torino e della ...

: 2022

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* 1955 births Living people Italian men's footballers Italy men's under-21 international footballers Italy men's international footballers 1978 FIFA World Cup players Bologna FC 1909 players Torino FC players ACF Fiorentina players SSC Napoli players LR Vicenza players Serie A players Serie B players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from the Province of Rimini 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1950s-stub