Marcello Cottafava
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 8 September 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Genoa, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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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. |
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Marcello Cottafava (born 8 September 1977) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Latina.
He measures 184 cm, weighing 77 kg.
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. In June 2007 Lecce acquired all 3 players outright for undisclosed fee.
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, 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.
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. 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. 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.
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