Stefano Pellegrini (5 August 1953 – 18 March 2018) was an Italian professional

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who played as a striker.

Career

Pellegrini began playing football with Roma, where he made his

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debut against Lazio on 14 March 1971. He played for 6 seasons (53 games, 9 goals) in the

for

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and Avellino. His older brother Romolo Pellegrini and younger brother

Claudio Pellegrini Claudio Pellegrini (born in Rome on May 9, 1935) is an Italian/American physicist known for his pioneering work on X-ray free electron lasers and collective effects in relativistic particle beams.Totonero 1980 Totonero 1980 or Totonero was a match-fixing scandal in Italy in 1980 in Serie A and Serie B. The participants in this scandal were Avellino, Bologna, Lazio, Milan, and Perugia of Serie A and Palermo and Taranto of Serie B, all of whom were decla ...

match-fixing scandal.

References

1953 births 2018 deaths Italian men's footballers Serie A players AS Roma players US Avellino 1912 players SSC Bari players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Rome {{Italy-footy-forward-1950s-stub