Corrado Colombo
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Corrado Colombo is an Italian
footballer
. He currently plays for Verona
at Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
. He made his debut on Serie B
and for the club in 1998/1999 season, and then joined Pistoiese
(Serie B). He was signed by the giant Internazionale
in the summer of 2000 in co-ownership
deal.He made his Serie A debut on 1 October 2000 against Reggina Calcio
, and four other appearances at Coppa Italia
, Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup
match, in which he scored.
In October, he was on loan to Torino Calcio (Serie B) along with Sixto Peralta
, due to there being too many strikers on the squad.
He failed to return to Inter, but was sold back to Atalanta, this time in the Serie A.
His first ever Serie A season as regular was fair, in which he made 22 appearances.
In summer 2002, Sampdoria (Serie B) signed Colombo in a co-ownership
deal. He is one of the players who helped the club to be promoted, by playing 27 games.
But his third Serie A season with his third Serie A club was bitter, he made just 2 appearances before the winter break.
Due to his still being under contract with Atalanta, Sampdoria did not choose to pay Atalanta to keep him on the squad.
Colombo was loaned to Piacenza
(Serie B), Livorno
(Serie A) and Ascoli
(Serie A), for exactly two seasons. The latter two were newcomers to the Serie A at that time, and Piacenza was also new to Serie B since being relegated.
He returned to Sampdoria in January 2006, due to injuries of Emiliano Bonazzoli
, when he made 12 appearances, without a goal.
In summer 2006, was finally fully owned by Sampdoria. But it saw Colombo sent to Brescia
(Serie B) in co-ownership deal in 29 August 2006.
Likes previous times, he failed to score regularly.
In 29 January 2007, Spezia
(Serie B) signed Colombo, in co-ownership
with Sampdoria, as an emergency signing. He finally scored regularly, scoring 8 goals in 18 games, which kept the place of Serie B for Spezia.
He then transferred to Pisa Calcio for the 2007-08 season. On 1 September 2008, he was signed by Bari
.
On 31 August 2009, he signed a 2-year contract with Verona
, after rule out from Bari first team.
Runner-up
|-
|1998–99||Atalanta
||rowspan=2|Serie B
||20||3||?||?||rowspan=2 colspan=2| ||?||?
|-
|1999–2000||Pistoiese
||26||2||?||?||?||?
|-
|2000–01||Internazionale
||Serie A
||1||0||2||0||1||1||51||1
|-
|2000–01||Torino
||Serie B||22||2||colspan=2| ||rowspan=15 colspan=2| ||22||2
|-
|2001–02||Atalanta||Serie A||22||1||?||?||?||?
|-
|2002–03||rowspan=2|Sampdoria
||Serie B||27||3||?||?||?||?
|-
|2003–04||Serie A||2||0||?||?||?||?
|-
|2003–04||Piacenza
||Serie B||23||4||colspan=2 | ||?||?
|-
|2004–05||Livorno
||rowspan=3|Serie A||19||3||?||?||?||?
|-
|rowspan=2|2005–06||Ascoli
||6||0||0||0||6||0
|-
|Sampdoria||12||0||3||2||15||2
|-
|rowspan=2|2006–07||Brescia
||rowspan=6|Serie B||18||0||1||1||19||1
|-
|rowspan=2|Spezia
||17||8||colspan=2| ||182||8
|-
|rowspan=2|2007–08 ||17||1||1||1||18||1
|-
|rowspan=2|Pisa
||11||1||colspan=2| ||133||2
|-
|rowspan=2|2008–09||1||0||1||1||2||1
|-
|Bari
||16||3||rowspan=2 colspan=2| ||16||3
|-
|2009–10||Verona
||Prima Divisione||0||0||0||0
|-
260||31||?||?||1||1||?||?
1Include one match at 2000 Supercoppa Italiana
.
2Include one match at Relegation play-off.
3Include two matches and one goals at Relegation play-off
Italy
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footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
. He currently plays for Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
Hellas Verona Football Club is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto. The team's colours are yellow and blue and gialloblu is the team's most widely used nickname...
at Lega Pro Prima Divisione.
Football career
Colombo started his career at the famous youth rank of AtalantaAtalanta B.C.
Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...
. He made his debut on Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
and for the club in 1998/1999 season, and then joined Pistoiese
A.C. Pistoiese
Unione Sportiva Pistoiese 1921 is an Italian association football club, based in Pistoia, Tuscany.At the end of the 2010-11 Eccellenza season, Pistoiese was promoted to Serie D....
(Serie B). He was signed by the giant Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
in the summer of 2000 in co-ownership
Co-ownership (football)
Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club...
deal.He made his Serie A debut on 1 October 2000 against Reggina Calcio
Reggina Calcio
Reggina Calcio are an Italian association football club, the main club of the city of Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in the Italian Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo...
, and four other appearances at Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
, Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
match, in which he scored.
In October, he was on loan to Torino Calcio (Serie B) along with Sixto Peralta
Sixto Peralta
Sixto Raimundo "Mumo" Peralta Salso is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for CFR Cluj.- Career :He made his professional debut against Lanús, 23 August 1996...
, due to there being too many strikers on the squad.
He failed to return to Inter, but was sold back to Atalanta, this time in the Serie A.
His first ever Serie A season as regular was fair, in which he made 22 appearances.
In summer 2002, Sampdoria (Serie B) signed Colombo in a co-ownership
Co-ownership (football)
Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club...
deal. He is one of the players who helped the club to be promoted, by playing 27 games.
But his third Serie A season with his third Serie A club was bitter, he made just 2 appearances before the winter break.
Due to his still being under contract with Atalanta, Sampdoria did not choose to pay Atalanta to keep him on the squad.
Colombo was loaned to Piacenza
Piacenza Calcio
Piacenza Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Piacenza. The club was formed in 1919 and currently plays in Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione B. The team's colors are red and white, prompting one of the team's nicknames, the Biancorossi. They are also known as the Papaveri , and...
(Serie B), Livorno
A.S. Livorno Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie B. The team's colors are dark red or maroon...
(Serie A) and Ascoli
Ascoli Calcio 1898
Ascoli Calcio 1898 is an Italian football club based in Ascoli Piceno, Marche. The club was formed in 1898 and currently plays in Italian Serie B, having returned to it after two seasons spent in Serie A...
(Serie A), for exactly two seasons. The latter two were newcomers to the Serie A at that time, and Piacenza was also new to Serie B since being relegated.
He returned to Sampdoria in January 2006, due to injuries of Emiliano Bonazzoli
Emiliano Bonazzoli
Emiliano Bonazzoli is an Italian footballer, a striker, currently playing for Reggina.- Career :Bonazzoli started his career at Brescia. He played his first professional match on 15 May 1997 against Lecce, which his only match of the season the Serie B Champion. In the next two seasons he...
, when he made 12 appearances, without a goal.
In summer 2006, was finally fully owned by Sampdoria. But it saw Colombo sent to Brescia
Brescia Calcio
Brescia Calcio , known simply as Brescia, is the largest football club in the Lombard city of Brescia, where it was founded in 1911.In the 2009–10 season, in the return leg of the Serie B playoff final, they defeated Torino 2-1 at home , returning to Serie A after a 5-year absence...
(Serie B) in co-ownership deal in 29 August 2006.
Likes previous times, he failed to score regularly.
In 29 January 2007, Spezia
Spezia Calcio 1906
Spezia Calcio 1906 is an Italian football club, based in La Spezia, Liguria. Founded in 1906, the team's colors are black and white. The club's home ground is Stadio Alberto Picco.-1944 scudetto:...
(Serie B) signed Colombo, in co-ownership
Co-ownership (football)
Co-ownership is a system whereby two football clubs own the contract of a player jointly, although the player is only registered to play for one club...
with Sampdoria, as an emergency signing. He finally scored regularly, scoring 8 goals in 18 games, which kept the place of Serie B for Spezia.
He then transferred to Pisa Calcio for the 2007-08 season. On 1 September 2008, he was signed by Bari
A.S. Bari
Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....
.
On 31 August 2009, he signed a 2-year contract with Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
Hellas Verona Football Club is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto. The team's colours are yellow and blue and gialloblu is the team's most widely used nickname...
, after rule out from Bari first team.
Hounors and awards
Winners- Serie BSerie BSerie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
: 2001, 2003, 2009
Runner-up
- Italian Super Cup: 2000
Statistics
- As of 1 September 2009.
|-
|1998–99||Atalanta
Atalanta B.C.
Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...
||rowspan=2|Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
||20||3||?||?||rowspan=2 colspan=2| ||?||?
|-
|1999–2000||Pistoiese
A.C. Pistoiese
Unione Sportiva Pistoiese 1921 is an Italian association football club, based in Pistoia, Tuscany.At the end of the 2010-11 Eccellenza season, Pistoiese was promoted to Serie D....
||26||2||?||?||?||?
|-
|2000–01||Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
||Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
||1||0||2||0||1||1||51||1
|-
|2000–01||Torino
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....
||Serie B||22||2||colspan=2| ||rowspan=15 colspan=2| ||22||2
|-
|2001–02||Atalanta||Serie A||22||1||?||?||?||?
|-
|2002–03||rowspan=2|Sampdoria
U.C. Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...
||Serie B||27||3||?||?||?||?
|-
|2003–04||Serie A||2||0||?||?||?||?
|-
|2003–04||Piacenza
Piacenza Calcio
Piacenza Calcio is an Italian association football club based in Piacenza. The club was formed in 1919 and currently plays in Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione B. The team's colors are red and white, prompting one of the team's nicknames, the Biancorossi. They are also known as the Papaveri , and...
||Serie B||23||4||colspan=2 | ||?||?
|-
|2004–05||Livorno
A.S. Livorno Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian football club based in Livorno, Tuscany. The club was formed in 1915 and currently plays in Italian Serie B. The team's colors are dark red or maroon...
||rowspan=3|Serie A||19||3||?||?||?||?
|-
|rowspan=2|2005–06||Ascoli
Ascoli Calcio 1898
Ascoli Calcio 1898 is an Italian football club based in Ascoli Piceno, Marche. The club was formed in 1898 and currently plays in Italian Serie B, having returned to it after two seasons spent in Serie A...
||6||0||0||0||6||0
|-
|Sampdoria||12||0||3||2||15||2
|-
|rowspan=2|2006–07||Brescia
Brescia Calcio
Brescia Calcio , known simply as Brescia, is the largest football club in the Lombard city of Brescia, where it was founded in 1911.In the 2009–10 season, in the return leg of the Serie B playoff final, they defeated Torino 2-1 at home , returning to Serie A after a 5-year absence...
||rowspan=6|Serie B||18||0||1||1||19||1
|-
|rowspan=2|Spezia
Spezia Calcio 1906
Spezia Calcio 1906 is an Italian football club, based in La Spezia, Liguria. Founded in 1906, the team's colors are black and white. The club's home ground is Stadio Alberto Picco.-1944 scudetto:...
||17||8||colspan=2| ||182||8
|-
|rowspan=2|2007–08 ||17||1||1||1||18||1
|-
|rowspan=2|Pisa
Pisa Calcio
Associazione Calcio Pisa 1909 is an Italian association football club, based in Pisa, Tuscany. The club was founded in 1909 as Pisa Sporting Club and refounded in 1994 as A.C. Pisa , after the cancellation of the old one because of economical troubles...
||11||1||colspan=2| ||133||2
|-
|rowspan=2|2008–09||1||0||1||1||2||1
|-
|Bari
A.S. Bari
Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....
||16||3||rowspan=2 colspan=2| ||16||3
|-
|2009–10||Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
Hellas Verona Football Club is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto. The team's colours are yellow and blue and gialloblu is the team's most widely used nickname...
||Prima Divisione||0||0||0||0
|-
260||31||?||?||1||1||?||?
1Include one match at 2000 Supercoppa Italiana
2000 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2000 Supercoppa Italiana was a match contested by the Serie A 1999–2000 winners Lazio and the Coppa Italia 1999–2000 runners-up Internazionale...
.
2Include one match at Relegation play-off.
3Include two matches and one goals at Relegation play-off