Luca Bucci

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Luca Bucci
Personnel
birthday March 13, 1969
place of birth BolognaItaly
size 180 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1984-1985 AC Parma
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1986 AC Parma 5 (0)
1986-1987 →  Pro Patria Calcio  (loan) 1 (0)
1987-1988 →  Rimini Calcio  (loan) 1 (0)
1990-1992 Casertana 67 (0)
1992-1993 AC Reggiana 36 (0)
1993-1998 AC Parma 95 (0)
1997 →  AC Perugia  (loan) 17 (0)
1998-2003 Torino Calcio 160 (0)
2003-2004 FC Empoli 17 (0)
2005-2008 Parma FC 81 (0)
2009 SSC Naples 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1995 Italy 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Luca Bucci (born March 13, 1969 in Bologna ) is a former Italian football goalkeeper .

Career

In the club

Luca Bucci started his career at AC Parma in 1986 . A year later it was awarded to Pro Patria Calcio , shortly thereafter to Rimini Calcio . Between 1988 and 1990 he played again for Parma. Then he switched to Casertana . In 1992 AC Reggiana signed him.

For the 1993/94 season Luca Bucci moved back to Parma, where he was immediately goalkeeper and coach Nevio Scala on August 29, 1993 as compared Udinese Calcio on his debut in Serie A came. In the further course of the season he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with Parma , in which they lost 1-0 to the English representative Arsenal FC . In 1994/95 Luca Bucci stood with AC Parma in the final of the UEFA Cup , where the Emilian club beat the Italian record champions Juventus Turin 1-0 and 1-1 . He also achieved the best placement in the club's history with the Gialloblù ranked second behind Juventus in Serie A. In the 1996/97 season, Bucci was pushed to the bench by the then 18-year-old Gianluigi Buffon , which prompted him to first move to AC Perugia on loan and to sign a contract with the second-rate Torino Calcio in 1998 .

In Turin, Luca Bucci was a regular goalkeeper for six years and rose twice as a Serie B winner in Italy's top division. In 2003 he moved to FC Empoli . A year later, the goalkeeper returned to his home club AC Parma. There he initially replaced the substitute goalkeeper Gianluca Berti, who had moved to Turin , and was then again a regular goalkeeper for three years.

At the end of the 2007/08 season , in which the Emilian club relegated to the second division after 18 years in Serie A, FC Parma (formerly AC Parma ) offered Bucci a position in the management of the club. However, he refused this and decided instead to continue his active career. On February 6, 2009, Luca Bucci, who had been without a club until then, signed a contract with the first division club SSC Napoli , who were still urgently looking for an experienced substitute after injuring their goalkeepers Gennaro Iezzo and Matteo Gianello . On April 19, 2009 Bucci, now 40 years old, made his debut in a 2-0 win in the Serie A game against Cagliari Calcio for the Partenopei . This was also his last competitive game as a professional, shortly afterwards he announced the end of his career.

In the national team

Luca Bucci made three caps for Italy between 1994 and 1995 . He made his debut on December 21, 1994 in a 3-1 win over Turkey . The goalkeeper was in Arrigo Sacchi's squad at the 1994 World Cup in the USA and the 1996 European Championship in England , but was not used in either tournament.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. CALCIO, NAPOLI: BUCCI ANNUNCIA IL RITIRO