Primo Sentimenti (; 28 December 1926 – 13 October 2016), also known as Sentimenti V, was an Italian
football player and coach from
Bomporto in the
Province of Modena
The Province of Modena ( it, Provincia di Modena) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena.
It has an area of and a total population of about 701,000 (2015). There are 48 ''comuni'' (singular: ''co ...
, who mainly played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
or as a
defender, although he was a
utility player who was capable of playing anywhere along the pitch.
Career
Sentimenti played club football for several Italian sides, most prominently
Lazio
it, Laziale
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, with whom he played over 200 games.
Personal life
The
Sentimenti family were prominent in Italian football; several of Primo's relatives in the game include brothers
Ennio,
Lucidio,
Vittorio and
Arnaldo; cousin
Lino; and nephews
Roberto
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and
Andrea Sentimenti.
Primo played with two of his brothers, Vittorio and Lucidio, at Lazio during the 1950s.
References
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Italian men's footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
Modena FC 2018 players
SSC Bari players
SS Lazio players
Udinese Calcio players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
1926 births
2016 deaths
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from the Province of Modena