Marco Antonio De Marchi (born 8 September 1966) is an Italian

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agent and former defender, who played as a

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Career

Born in

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, De Marchi started his career with the

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youth system, and was successively sold to

Serie C2 Serie C2 was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Serie C. The league menaging t ...

club Ospitaletto, where he made his professional debut. In 1987, he followed his head coach

Luigi Maifredi Luigi Maifredi (born 20 April 1947), commonly known as Gigi Maifredi, is an Italian association football, football manager. Career Born in Lograto (Province of Brescia), started out playing in Brescia Calcio, his hometown club's youth system, ...

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fallen giants

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, being protagonist of the team's promotion to the top flight and the successive campaign that led the ''rossoblu'' back into European football. In 1990, he followed Maifredi once again, joining

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. After an unimpressive debut season, he was successively loaned out to

AS Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: Help:IPA/Italian, ) is a professional Association football, football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier ...

for the 1991–92 season. After a season back at Juventus where he played in the first leg of the victorious

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, De Marchi successively agreed for a comeback to Bologna in May 1993, becoming also the team captain and playing there for four more seasons, his last ones as a footballer in Italy. In 1997, he agreed for a move abroad to

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side

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, and in 2000 he went to

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with little success before retiring from active football in 2002.

Honours

Ospitaletto *

: 1986-87 Bologna *

: 1987–88, 1995–96 *

Serie C1 Serie C1 was the third highest football league in Italy. It consisted of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions. History Before the 1978–79 season, there were only three professional football leagues in Italy, the third being Se ...

: 1994–95 Juventus *

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: 1992–93

References

External links

Profile at lega-calcio.it
1966 births Living people 20th-century Italian sportsmen Italian men's footballers Footballers from Milan Men's association football defenders UEFA Europa League–winning players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Eredivisie players Scottish Premier League players Bologna FC 1909 players Juventus FC players AS Roma players SBV Vitesse players Dundee F.C. players Italian expatriate men's footballers Italian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Italian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland {{Italy-footy-defender-1960s-stub