Mario Martiradonna

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Mario Martiradonna
Personnel
birthday August 28, 1938
place of birth Bari ,  Italy
date of death November 20, 2011
Place of death Cagliari ,  Italy
size 170 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1955-1956 AS Melfi
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1959 AS Melfi 80 (2)
1959-1960 AS Teramo 33 (0)
1960–1962 AC Reggiana 61 (0)
1962-1973 US Cagliari 309 (5)
1967 → Chicago Mustangs (loan)
1973-1974 US Monsummanese 15 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Martiradonna (born August 28, 1938 in Bari , † November 20, 2011 in Cagliari ) was an Italian football player . In the 1969/70 season he was part of the team from US Cagliari , which won the Italian football championship with the club. He also played for AS Teramo and AC Reggiana, among others .

Career

Mario Martiradonna was born on August 28, 1938 in Bari in southern Italy . However, he did not start playing football in his hometown, but at AS Melfi in the nearby province of Basilicata . In Melfi , the defender visited the youth department before he was accepted into the club's first men's team in 1956 at the age of eighteen. Mario Martiradonna played for AS Melfi for three years until 1959, during which time he played 80 league games, in which he scored two goals. Melfi played very poorly at the time. 1959 moved to Martiradonna AS Teramo in the C series . At the club from Abruzzo , however, he stayed only one year and made 33 league games in Serie C that year without scoring a goal. He then joined AC Reggiana , then in Serie B , for two years . After reaching fourth place in the second-highest league in the first year and thus narrowly missing out on promotion to Serie A , after the end of the 1961/62 season the move to the third division had to be started. Then Mario Martiradonna left the AC Reggiana after two years and 61 league games again to join the second division promoted US Cagliari .

In Sardinia , Mario Martiradonna experienced almost the entire rest of his football career. Overall, he played from 1962 to 1973 for the US Cagliari and made 309 league games with five goals in that time. In the ranking of the players with the most appearances for the club, which has been running as Cagliari Calcio since 1970, Martiradonna occupies seventh place. He is also a member of the club's Hall of Fame. In his twelve years with the US Cagliari, which were only interrupted by a six-month interlude with the Chicago Mustangs in the US, Mario Martiradonna was part of the most successful team at the club. After promotion to Serie B, the leap to Serie A succeeded in the second year of the second division, where they were able to confidently establish themselves in the following period. In Cagliari a team was formed around players like Luigi Riva , Pierluigi Cera and Enrico Albertosi , which reached the Italian runner-up in 1969, just four points behind Fiorentina . The following year, the team of coach Manlio Scopigno made even more successful and after the end of all game days they were in first place in Serie A, four points ahead of first rival Inter Milan , which was the first and only win of the Italian football championship to date meant a team of the US Cagliari. In the following years, however, the star of the US Cagliari fell as quickly as it had risen in the 1960s. As early as 1976, only six years after the championship, the club had to return to the second division. Mario Martiradonna is no longer at Cagliari Calcio. The defender, who had never played an international match for the Italian national soccer team , left his career with the amateur club US Monsummanese from 1973 to 1974, before finally ending it at the age of 36. Martiradonna then lived in Cagliari, where he died in 2011 at the age of 73.

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personal data
SURNAME Martiradonna, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bari , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2011
Place of death Cagliari , Italy