Francesco Scaratti (19 February 1939 – 16 August 2013) was an Italian professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played for 7 seasons in the

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 ...

for

SPAL 1907 Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor, commonly referred to by the acronym SPAL (), is a professional football club based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. During the 2024–25 season the team played in Serie C, the third tier of the Italian foot ...

, A.C. Mantova and

A.S. Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: ) is a professional football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier of Italian football for all of its exis ...

. He scored a dramatic last-minute-of-extra-time equalizer in the return leg of the semifinal of the

1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup The 1969–70 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was the 10th edition of European football's secondary competition. Defending champions Slovan Bratislava were eliminated in the First Round by Dinamo Zagreb. English club Manchester City def ...

for

against

Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Górnik Zabrze S.A. or simply Górnik Zabrze (), is a Polish association football, football club from Zabrze. Górnik is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history, winning ...

. Roma eventually lost to Górnik on a coin toss (the last time it was used as a tiebreaker in European football). A.S. Roma was a winner of a coin toss earlier in the tournament.

Honours

Coppa Italia Coppa Italia () is the annual domestic cup of Italian football. The knockout competition was organized by the DDS and the Lega Calcio until the 2009–10 season and by Lega Serie A ever since. Juventus is the competition's most successf ...

winner: 1968/69.

References

1939 births 2013 deaths Italian men's footballers Serie A players Serie B players Siena FC SSD players SPAL players Mantova 1911 players Hellas Verona FC players AS Roma players Men's association football defenders Footballers from Rome 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-defender-1930s-stub