Marcello Cottafava
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 September 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Genoa, Italy | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Latina | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1998 | Saronno | 29 | (0) |
1998–2001 | Carrarese | 77 | (3) |
2001–2002 | Lecco | 25 | (1) |
2002–2007 | Treviso | 99 | (4) |
2003–2004 | → Giulianova (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2007–2008 | Lecce | 48 | (1) |
2008–2011 | Triestina | 97 | (3) |
2011–2012 | Gubbio | 34 | (2) |
2012– | Latina | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Marcello Cottafava (born 8 September 1977) is an Italian footballer who plays for Latina.
He measures 184 cm, weighing 77 kg.[1]
Biography
Lecce
In January 2007 Cottafava, Alberto Giuliatto and Blažej Vaščák were sold to Lecce in co-ownership deals, for €100,000, €1,300,000 and €600,000 respectively.[2] In June 2007 Lecce acquired all 3 players outright for undisclosed fee.
Triestina
Cottafava joined U.S. Triestina Calcio in 2008. He played for the club in Serie B for 2 seasons. In 2010 he was suspended by the club for 6 months. The club did not award any squad number to him and excluded him from squad and put him to transfer list,[3] but failed to sell him due to his high accounting value of €420,000. He was awarded no.90 shirt and played the first game of the season on 9 January 2011.
He left the club after the club relegated.
Triestina false accounting
In June 2009, he was sold to Chievo in co-ownership deal along with Dario D'Ambrosio, which Cottafava's half right was valued for €420,000 and D'Ambrosio €340,000. In return, Amedeo Calliari and Nicolò Brighenti also signed by Triestina in co-ownership deal, for €325,000 and €425,000 respectively. Thus, the swap deal only involved €10,000 from Chievo to Triestina.[4] D'Ambrosio and Cottafava then returned to Triestina on loan and Brighenti and Calliari were loaned to Lega Pro. The deal made Triestina received a player profit of €840,000 and €620,000 respectively, despite it was false, as the club received nothing but two youth players with speculative potential.[4] On 30 June 2009 the club had a net equity of €2,933,043, (5.2 times equity to asset ratio) which if excluding aforementioned €1.46 million player profit, the club had even worse accounting result of €1,473,043. In January 2010 Triestina bought back D'Ambrosio in 4-year contract and sold Brighenti for €425,000 each.[5]
After Triestina re-admitted to Serie B in August 2010 (to replace Ancona), Cottafava was bought back by Triestina for €210,000.[6] and Calliari returned to Chievo for €220,000, thus a reverse flow of cash of €10,000.[6] Both D'Ambrosio, Cottafava were became the financial burden of Triestina as their accounting value €850,000 and €420,000 had to be amortize as a repayment of false profit gained in June 2009. On Chievo side, Brighenti's €850,000 and Calliari's €440,000 also became a burden for the club, which both were sold in a lower price and Chievo had to write-off the rest as a cost.
Gubbio & Latina
In September 2011 he joined Gubbio, the newcomer of Serie B. Gubbio also relegated in 2012. In August 2012 he joined U.S. Latina Calcio of third division.[7] He won promotion to Serie B with the club. After "out of contract" for 10 days, on 11 July 2013 Latina offered him a new contract for 2013–14 Serie B.[8]
References
- ↑ http://www.uslatinacalcio.it/people/164/MarcelloCottafava
- ↑ Treviso FBC 1993 srl Report and Accounts on 30 June 2007 (Italian)
- ↑ "ESCLUSIVA TMW – Triestina, messi sul mercato 6 giocatori". TMW (in Italian). 11 August 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- 1 2 US Triestina Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2009 (Italian)
- ↑ US Triestina Calcio SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2010 (Italian)
- 1 2 AC ChievoVerona Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 (Italian)
- ↑ "Il Latina ingaggia Cottafava" (in Italian). US Latina Calcio. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ↑ "Preso Ristovski, prolunga Cottafava" (in Italian). US Latina Calcio S.r.l. official site. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
External links
- http://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Cottafava_Marcello
- http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/serie_b/2008_nw/giocatori/53667.shtml