Armando Pantanelli
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 June 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Turin, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1989 | Reggiana | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1990 | Reggiana | 0 | (0) |
| 1992–1994 | Olbia | 35 | (0) |
| 1994–1996 | Carpi | 64 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Inter | 0 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | Reggiana | 25 | (0) |
| 1997 | → Fidelis Andria (loan) | 27 | (0) |
| 1999 | Perugia | 0 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | Cosenza | 60 | (0) |
| 2001–2004 | Cagliari | 117 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Catania | 116 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Avellino | 23 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Paganese | 28 | (0) |
| Total | 495 | (0) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Armando Pantanelli (born 1 June 1971 in Turin) is an Italian former professional football goalkeeper.
Born in Turin, Pantanelli spent his childhood in Parma, and began his footballing career with A.C. Reggiana, and from 1992 to 2006, he played for a host of other clubs, appearing in over 400 matches in the Serie C2, Serie C1, and Serie B, before making his Serie A debut in the 2006–07 season after Calcio Catania earned promotion to the premier division. After a feud with the club management, he moved to Avellino in the summer of 2007.
Pantanelli is famous for his mane of hair kept out of his eyes with a baseball cap rather than the conventional headband. He has also captained Catania on a number of occasions. He is also well respected for his remarkable reflex saves, as well as his ability to save penalties. He is, however, also known to have made some high profile blunders. Pantanelli has been compared to another Italian goalkeeper, Marco Storari, for a similar style of goalkeeping, as well as hairstyle. Storari, ironically spent much of his career with Sicilian rivals F.C. Messina
Pantanelli began his professional career with A.C. Reggiana 1919, in 1986. He spent 5 seasons playing within the club's youth system, and began to earn first team call-ups for the 1989–1990 Italian Lega Calcio season. He never earned a first team cap for the club, and was sold in July 1990 to Olbia Calcio.
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