Nicolás Federico Spolli (, ; born 20 February 1983) is a retired Argentine professional

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who played as a defender.

Club career

Newell's Old Boys

Born in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...

, Spolli began his youth career with hometown club,

Newell's Old Boys Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys () is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. The club was founded on 3 November 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell of the English county of Kent, one of the pioneers of Argentine football. A ...

. In 2005, he was promoted to the senior squad. At the club he was soon a regular in the starting eleven, and by 2009, he made over 100 appearances and also hit the back of the net nearly ten times. He was a fan favourite as well.

Calcio Catania

In July 2009,

Calcio Catania Catania Football Club, commonly known as Catania, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in Serie C. Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the clu ...

sporting director, Pietro Lo Monaco confirmed that the Sicilian club were deep into negotiations with Newell's for the defender and on 25 July 2009, the deal was finalized and Spolli officially became a Catania player. He was Catania's ninth transfer of the 2009 summer transfer window, and proved himself as an integral part of Catania's starting eleven, early in his

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career. The player made 26 Serie A appearances in his first season, netting one goal, helping

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

to an impressive 12th-place finish in the

and also a record points total for the club in a top flight season. In his next two seasons with the club, Spolli and his team continued their recent success and endured three additional seasons of record point totals in Serie A, making it five consecutive seasons of this achievement. Spolli is currently part of a record-breaking Catania outfit that picked up 56 points from 38

matches. This performance saw the club also break its record number of home victories in a single season, its record number of victories overall in a single top flight campaign, as well as its record points total in Serie A for the fifth consecutive season. On 17 January 2019, Spolli joined to

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on loan with an obligation to buy.

Career statistics

References

External links

* Argentine Primera statistics
canewellsoldboys.com.ar

pasionrojinegra.com

goal.com

calciocatania.it
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spolli, Nicolas 1983 births Living people Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe Men's association football defenders Argentine men's footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Argentine Primera División players Serie A players Serie B players Newell's Old Boys footballers Catania FC players AS Roma players AC Carpi players AC ChievoVerona players Genoa CFC players FC Crotone players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy 21st-century Argentine sportsmen