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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Egidio Calloni | ||
| Date of birth | (1952-12-01)1 December 1952 (age 72) | ||
| Place of birth | Busto Arsizio, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1970 | Internazionale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1971 | Varese | 0 | (0) |
| 1971–1972 | Verbania (loan) | 38 | (15) |
| 1972–1974 | Varese | 50 | (23) |
| 1974–1978 | A.C. Milan | 101 | (31) |
| 1978–1979 | Verona | 20 | (8) |
| 1979–1980 | Perugia | 12 | (0) |
| 1980–1981 | Palermo | 29 | (11) |
| 1981–1982 | Como | 8 | (2) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Egidio Calloni (born 1 December 1952) is an Italian formerfootballstriker, best known for his stint atA.C. Milan.
AnInternazionale youth system product, Calloni then moved toVarese and then on loan toSerie C club Verbania. He returned at Varese in 1972, scoring 23 goals in twoSerie B seasons, being noted byA.C. Milan. Signed by therossoneri in 1974, he played four seasons with A.C. Milan as a regular, scoring 31 goals in 101 matches. He became however famous for his several striking mistakes which brought popular journalistGianni Brera to nickname him "sciagurato Egidio" ("Egidio the wretched"), after a minor character fromAlessandro Manzoni's novelThe Betrothed.[1][2]
He then played with little success with several otherSerie A teams, such asVerona andPerugia, being a backup forPaolo Rossi in the latter. He then moved toSerie B clubPalermo, scoring 11 goals in 29 matches (including a single match in the 1981–82 season) and being therosanero topscorer in 1980–81. He then returned to play at Serie A level withComo, failing however to impress, being featured only eight times, and scoring two goals. He retired in 1982, aged 30.[1][2][3]
Calloni currently works as an agent for a nationalgelato company of Italy. He was in the news in 2007 after having been involved in a car accident following acerebral ischemia attack.
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