Sebastiano Rossi

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Sebastiano Rossi
Sebastiano Rossi.jpg
Sebastiano Rossi, 1990
Personnel
birthday July 20, 1964
place of birth Cesena ,  Italy
size 197 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1979-1982 AC Cesena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982-1983 →  AS Forlì  (loan) 11 (0)
1983-1990 AC Cesena 127 (0)
1984-1985 →  FC Empoli  (loan) 0 (0)
1985-1986 →  Rondinella Calcio  (loan) 28 (0)
1990-2002 AC Milan 240 (0)
2002-2003 AC Perugia 12 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Sebastiano Rossi (born July 20, 1964 in Cesena ) is a former Italian football goalkeeper . He was active at AC Cesena for eleven years and was awarded three times during that time. In 1990 he moved to AC Milan with whom he was five times Italian champion and three times in the final of the UEFA Champions League . After twelve years in Milan, he let his career end in the 2002/03 season at AC Perugia .

Career

Beginnings and loan transactions (1979–1986)

In 1979, at the age of 15, Rossi joined his home club AC Cesena , to which he remained loyal during his youth. At the age of 18 Rossi was loaned from there to the then third division club AS Forlì , for whom he made eleven games in one season. With the hope of becoming a regular goalkeeper in Cesena , he came back to the province in 1983 without being able to make a single game in the 1983/84 season. So he moved to FC Empoli again on loan , but returned to Cesena after a disappointing season without any commitment. Here they did not keep him for long and arranged a loan deal with Rondinella Calcio , where Rossi was in goal in 28 games and made the breakthrough.

Regular goalkeeper in Cesena (1986–1990)

In Cesena he was used for the first time in Serie B after his return in 1986 and was consequently able to oust Stefano Dadina as the goalkeeper after further appearances . At the end of the season he reached the promotion round to Serie A with Cesena and was able to prevail there after a win in the playoff against US Lecce . As a climber of the AC came on the opening day of the 1987/88 season away at Napoli and Rossi made his debut in goal Cesena Serie A . After 29 more match days, the team with Rossi in goal, Agostino Di Bartolomei in midfield and Ruggiero Rizzitelli in the attack as the table ninth among the best climbers of the season. After both Di Bartolomei and Rizzitelli had left the club in the summer, Cesena was thirteenth with Rossi, who only missed out in one game, and thus had only two points ahead of the relegation ranks. During the summer break, coach Alberto Bigon was replaced by Marcello Lippi , who took over a coaching position in Serie A for the first time. This used Rossi in all league games and led Cesena to thirteenth place in the table like his predecessor.

Title-rich years with the Rossoneri (1990–1995)

In 1990 he moved to AC Milan in Lombardy . The reigning European Cup winner had given Giovanni Galli his substitute goalkeeper to SSC Napoli during the summer break , making Rossi the second man behind Andrea Pazzagli . So he made nine league appearances, but was always in the starting line-up in Coppa Italia . After Pazzagli moved to Bologna FC for the new season , Rossi was the new goalkeeper and won his first championship with the Rossoneri . The Scudetto was defended in the following season and reached the final in the newly founded UEFA Champions League . There they lost in the Munich Olympic Stadium Olympique Marseille 0: 1 through a header from Basile Boli . In the next year the championship title was again defended and the Champions League final was reached. This time in was the Athens Olympic stadium of FC Barcelona the opponents and it was surprisingly clear with 4: 0 defeat. Shortly before the end of the year Rossi was finally appointed to the squadra Azzurra twice , but not used. Since AC Milan had a very strong defensive chain at that time with Franco Baresi , Paolo Maldini , Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti , Rossi rarely had opportunities to excel, so that these were his only nominations for the national team. He was all the more successful at the club, set a record that is still valid today with 929 minutes without conceding a goal in 1994, and in 1995 he made it to the final of the UEFA Champions League for the third time in a row . The final opponent was the young team from Ajax Amsterdam , which had recently defended the championship under coach Louis van Gaal . Rossi remained clean against the Dutch until the 85th minute before substitute Patrick Kluivert scored the 1-0 winner.

Unsuccessfulness and struggles for goalkeeping power (1995-2003)

Since Milan lost the final against Amsterdam and only came fourth in Serie A, they did not take part in the Champions League the next season . Instead, the team competed in the UEFA Cup , where mostly the substitutes were used and thus Rossi stayed on the bench in all games. The Rossoneri were eliminated in the quarterfinals against Girondins Bordeaux and focused on the league. There Mario Ielpo returned to the bench after international appearances and made way for Rossi, who played all 34 league games. The Ascensore Umano (German: human elevator) - so its nickname - remained fifteen times without conceding a goal and won the Italian championship with AC on matchday 32 after a 3-1 win against AC Florence . Before the beginning of the 1996/97 season , Fabio Capello left the Milanese for Real Madrid and was replaced by Giorgio Morini . This was dismissed relatively quickly and his successor Arrigo Sacchi occasionally replaced Rossi with the younger Angelo Pagotto , so that Rossi spent a total of eight games on the bench. After the season was unsuccessful for both Milan and Capello in Madrid, the latter returned to San Siro . At the beginning of the season, Capello gave the newly signed Massimo Taibi the trust as number one and Rossi landed on the bench for the first time during his career in Milan. The whole first half of the season he remained without commitment before Capello revised his decision during the winter break and gave Rossi his confidence as in previous years. So he guarded the Milanese goal for the entire rest of the season and played in his only final encounter for the Coppa Italia from the start. In the first leg of the final, Milan won 1-0 and also took the lead in the second leg, but lost 3-1 to Lazio in the end . As a result, the season ended without a title and Capello was replaced by Alberto Zaccheroni , who put Schalke 04's newly signed Jens Lehmann in goal. After bad reviews, he had to vacate his place in goal for Rossi after just a few appearances and switched to Borussia Dortmund during the winter break . Rossi, who had so the remaining 13 first round games was in goal in the second half but again on the bench, as the also from AC Monza neuverpflichtete Christian Abbiati got the trust of coach Zaccheroni. In the following years, Rossi was unable to displace him and so, after twelve years in Milan, he moved to AC Perugia in 2002 . There he could not prevail in his only season against Zeljko Kalac and ended his career at the age of 38 after 13 appearances for Perugia.

titles and achievements

AC Milan

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personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Sebastiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cesena