Giovanni Cattai

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Giovanni Cattai
Personal information
Date of birth (1945-01-01) 1 January 1945 (age 78)
Place of birth Muggia, Italy
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1964–1965 Milan 0 (0)
1965–1966 → Sambenedettese 24 (2)
1966–1967 → Taranto 3 (0)
1967–1968 Piacenza 30 (4)
1968–1969 Varese 8 (0)
1969–1970 Venezia 19 (0)
1970–1971 → Sottomarina 15 (0)
1971–1972 Venezia 8 (0)
1973–1974 Triestina 8 (0)
Total115(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giovanni Cattai (born 1 January 1945) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Biography

He was born in Muggia, near Trieste, Italy. [1]

After his debut in the Muggesana team from his native town, he joined A.C. Milan in 1960. [2] He played at all youth stages with the Rossoneri, failing, however, to make his debut in the first team: in the 1964–65 season he was in fact in the first team squad, but he never played due to not having reached an economic agreement with the then general manager Gipo Viani. [2] He played many friendlies with Milan. [1]

He then went on loan first to Sambenedettese, with whom he collected 24 appearances and scored 3 goals in the 1965–1966 Serie C championship, [3] and then to Taranto, [4] still in Serie C. In his experience at Taranto he collected 3 appearances, and in the summer of 1967 was sold by Milan to Piacenza, [5] first on loan [6] and then permanently. In the team coached first by Sandro Puppo and then by Leo Zavatti he established himself as a starter in the role of midfielder, alongside Paolo Pestrin, totaling 27 appearances and scoring 3 goals in the 1967-1968 championship, which Piacenza finished in second place.

In the following season, with the arrival of new manager Tino Molina, he was excluded from the starting lineup; in October, after 3 appearances and one goal, he moved to Varese, in Serie A, [7] in exchange for Giorgio Zoff. [8] He made his debut in Serie A and with Varese on 24 November 1968, in a 1-1 draw against Palermo. He collected 6 caps in that season, which Varese finished in 14th place, just one point shy of 12th place, thus being relegated to the Serie B.

Reconfirmed for the following season, he collected a presence in Serie B with Varese [9] before returning to Serie C with the jerseys of Venezia, [10] Sottomarina [11] and again Venezia. [12] In the 1973-1974 Serie C he played with Triestina. He collected 8 caps in this season (without goals), in which Triestina was relegated to the Serie D. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Giovannni Cattai". www.magliarossonera.it.
  2. 1 2 "Profilo su Magliarossonera.com".
  3. ↑ Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio . Carcano edizioni. 1967. p. 199.
  4. ↑ Taranto Calcio 1966-1967 Xoomer.virgilio.it
  5. ↑ Rosa 1967-1968 Storiapiacenza1919.it
  6. ↑ Speranze di Savona e Como nel campionato di Serie C, La Stampa , 16 September 1967, p. 8
  7. ↑ Rosa 1968-1969 Storiapiacenza1919.it
  8. ↑ Il Varese vorrebbe col mercato di novembre rifare la squadra, La Stampa , 2 November 1968, p. 12
  9. ↑ Il Genoa supera il Varese: 1-0 La Stampa , 22 September 1969, p. 10
  10. ↑ Quaranta piacentini ed ex biancorossi hanno giocato in campionati nazionali, Libertà , 18 September 1970, p. 9
  11. ↑ Tabellino Sottomarina-Piacenza 1-0 - Serie C 1970-1971 Storiapiacenza1919.it
  12. ↑ Tabellino Piacenza-Venezia 0-0 - Serie C 1971-1972 Storiapiacenza1919.it
  13. ↑ Stagione 1973-1974 Unionetriestina.it
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