Franco Cucinotta

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Franco Cucinotta ( Novara di Sicilia , born June 22, 1952 ) is a former Italian football player who played by storm and spent his entire career in Switzerland . He was the top scorer of the Swiss Football Championship 1976/77 and the European Cup of National Champions 1976/77 . He also won the Swiss League Cup ( 1979/80) with FC Servette and the Swiss Cup (1981/82) with FC Sion .

biography

Franco Cucinotta was born in 1952 in the municipality of Novara di Sicilia ( Provincia de Messina ) and grew up in Montreux (Switzerland), where his family emigrated to work in 1960.

After his career he worked as a player in the insurance industry. In 1988 he got divorced. He later took the advice of a former teammate and lived in Africa until 2007 . When he returned to Switzerland, he found work in the financial sector.

Career as a player

Franco Cucinotta played in the youth teams of Montreux-Sports. In 1970 he made his debut for Lausanne in the Swiss premier league and later played for FC Sion . In 1976 he became a professional at championship winner FC Zurich . He and his team reached third place in the national championship in the new season and was the top scorer with 21 goals (a total of 28 hits in all competitions). With FC Zurich he made it to the semi-finals of the 1976/77 European Cup after losing to the eventual European champions Liverpool FC . Also in this tournament he was the best goal scorer of the season with 5 goals (shared with Gerd Müller ). In 1978 the player went to FC Chiasso for 400 000 francs (approx. 200 000 DM ), switched to FC Servette after one season and played for FC Sion from 1981. Cucinotta ended his career in 1985 without ever being able to play in Italy.

Titles, achievements and awards

society

Sion

Servette

Individual awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bruno Bernardi: Il sogno "italiano" di Cucinotta. In: La Stampa - Consultazione Archivio. La Stampa , March 20, 1977, accessed October 7, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b c Jacques Wullschleger: Un buteur à la vie riche. July 2, 2012, accessed October 7, 2019 (French).
  3. ^ Il calcio svizzero parla ... napoletano. In: La Stampa - Consultazione Archivio. La Stampa, June 11, 1983, accessed October 7, 2019 (Italian).