Luca Mondini (born 25 February 1970) is a former Italian footballer who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

Career

Mondini started his professional career at

Internazionale Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is ...

. After he was loaned to

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

clubs, he joined

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a th ...

which newly promoted to Serie A in mid-1995, replacing

Giorgio Sterchele Giorgio Sterchele (born 8 January 1970 in Schio) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career In his early years, Sterchele played with Vicenza Calcio, the team of his province. He played regularly for the club as of 1991 an ...

who left for

A.S. Roma ' (''Rome Sport Association''), commonly referred to as Roma (), is a professional football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier of Italian football for all of its existence, except for ...

. He was the first choice ahead

Pierluigi Brivio Pierluigi Brivio (born 21 May 1969 in Milan) is an Italian former professional footballer who last played for Unione Sportiva Pergocrema 1932 as a goalkeeper. Career Brivio started his career at Atalanta youth team. He then played for Palazz ...

until the start of the 1997–98 season, but Brivio was preferred in goal when Vicenza won the

1996–97 Coppa Italia The 1996–97 Coppa Italia, the 50th Coppa Italia was an Italian Football Federation domestic cup competition won by Vicenza. Preliminary round ''p=after penalty shoot-out'' Final phase Knockout stage Final First leg Second leg Vicenz ...

. In November 1997, he joined

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

. In mid-1998 he joined

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, ahead

Giuseppe Taglialatela Giuseppe "Pino" Taglialatela (born 2 January 1969) is an Italian former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper. He is club chairman of Lega Pro club Ischia. Playing career After developing in the Ischia Isolaverde Youth Sector ...

and

Ferdinando Coppola Ferdinando Coppola (born 10 June 1978) is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Early career Coppola's career began at native club S.S.C. Napoli, he was used as a backup goalkeeper for Giuseppe Taglialatel ...

as first choice. In September 1999, he was loaned to

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as Napoli signed Alessio Bandieri. At Lazio, he was the 3rd goalkeeper behind

Luca Marchegiani Luca Marchegiani (; born 22 February 1966) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He represented several Italian clubs throughout his career, in particular Torino and Lazio, where he won various titles. At inter ...

and

Marco Ballotta Marco Ballotta (born 3 April 1964) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His professional career spanned a quarter of a century, but he was never capped for the Italy national team. He also held the distincti ...

. Returned to Napoli, now newly promoted to Serie A, he worked as backup of Francesco Mancini and Alberto Fontana. In mid-2001, he joined

Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional 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, ...

of Serie B, as a replacement for

Matteo Sereni Matteo Sereni (born 11 February 1975) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Born in Parma, Sereni started his career at UC Sampdoria, and was loaned out to A.C. Crevalcore in 1994. He returned to Sampdoria and only m ...

following his departure from the club. In 2002, he left for Reggiana in Serie C1. He then played for

Cremonese Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' (Po Valley). It is the capital of the ...

since 2004, with which he won the Serie C1 championship. But in next season, now at Serie B, he shared the first choice role with Giorgio Bianchi. After the relegation of Cremonese, he did not play for the club and in January 2007 he joined

Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second largest city ...

Nicola Santoni Nicola Santoni (born 18 January 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Santoni started his professional career at native club Cesena of Emilia-Romagna region. He was on loan to Chieti (Serie C1) ...

's backup, replacing Ivano Rotoli who left for

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...

. In mid-2007, he joined

Padova Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

at Serie C1, behind Andrea Cano as backup. In mid-2008, he joined

Benevento Benevento (, , ; la, Beneventum) is a city and ''comune'' of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the ...

, a club which were newly promoted to

Prima Divisione Prima Divisione (''First Division'') was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the ...

, sharing the first choice role with Pier Graziano Gori. In mid-2009, he joined

Crociati Noceto Crociati Noceto S.S.D. (formerly known as Crociati Parma) was an Italian association football club located in Noceto, Emilia-Romagna. History The foundation In the 2006–07 season, the former ''Crociati Parma'' has played in Girone A of ...

which were newly promoted to

Seconda Divisione Seconda Divisione (''Second Division'') was the name of the second level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the o ...

, located in

Noceto Noceto (Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about west of Parma. The municipality of Noceto contains the ''frazioni'' (subdivisions, ...

Province of Parma The Province of Parma ( it, Provincia di Parma) is a province in the Emilia–Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Parma. It is made up of 47 ''comuni''. It has an area of and a total population of around 450,000 ...

Honours

;Vicenza *

Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

: 1996–97 ;Cremonese *

: 2004–05

References

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*http://aic.football.it/scheda/454/mondini-luca.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Mondini, Luca 1970 births Living people Italian footballers Inter Milan players Spezia Calcio players Como 1907 players S.S. Fidelis Andria 1928 players L.R. Vicenza players Treviso F.B.C. 1993 players S.S.C. Napoli players S.S. Lazio players U.C. Sampdoria players A.C. Reggiana 1919 players U.S. Cremonese players Calcio Padova players Benevento Calcio players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Association football goalkeepers Sportspeople from Parma Footballers from Emilia-Romagna