Cesare Rickler

{{Short description|Italian footballer and rally driver (born 1987)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Cesare Rickler

| image =

| fullname = Cesare Gianfranco Rickler Del Mare

| height = {{height|meter=1.96}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|3|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Viareggio, Italy

| position = Centre back

| youthyears1 = –2001 | youthclubs1 = Calcio Lido

| youthyears2 = 2001–2002 | youthclubs2 = Pistoiese

| youthyears3 = 2002–2004 | youthclubs3 = Pisa

| youthyears4 = 2004–2005 | youthclubs4 = Chievo

| years1 = 2005–2011 | caps1 = 21 | goals1 = 0 | clubs1 = Chievo

| years2 = 2008–2009 | caps2 = 20 | goals2 = 2 | clubs2 = → Piacenza (loan)

| years3 = 2009–2010 | caps3 = 34 | goals3 = 0 | clubs3 = → Modena (loan)

| years4 = 2010–2011 | caps4 = 23 | goals4 = 1 | clubs4 = → Piacenza (loan)

| years5 = 2011–2016 | caps5 = 0 | goals5 = 0 | clubs5 = Bologna

| years6 = 2013–2014 | caps6 = 14 | goals6 = 2 | clubs6 = → Mantova (loan)

| years7 = 2014–2015 | caps7 = 13 | goals7 = 0 | clubs7 = → Prato (loan)

| nationalyears1 = 2007 | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalteam1 = Italy U-20{{cite web |url=http://www.figc.it/nazionali/DettaglioConvocato?codiceConvocato=3202&squadra=2 |publisher=FIGC.it |language=Italian |accessdate=21 October 2008 |title=RICKLER CESARE}}

| pcupdate = end of 1314 season

| ntupdate =

}}

Cesare Rickler (born 18 March 1987) is a former Italian footballer and is currently a rally driver.

Career

=Chievo=

Rickler made his first team debut on 18 April 2007 in an away match against Lazio, ended in a 0–0 tie.

Rickler had only played 4 matches in Serie A and 17 in Serie B with Chievo, rest of his Chievo career was spent on loan to Serie B clubs.

=Bologna=

In June 2011 Rickler was exchanged with Alessandro Bassoli in co-ownership deal. Both players' 50% registration rights were tagged for €1.5 million. He signed a 5-year contract, which worth €100,000 in net in the first season and would gradually increased to €120,000 in the last 3 seasons, plus bonuses.Bologna FC 1909 Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 {{in lang|it}} The deal was criticized as financial trick or even creative accounting, as the aggressive price tag of both players only improved 2010–11 financial result (selling profit nearly €3M){{cite news|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/06/29/servono-milioni-per-chiudere-il-bilancio-il.html|title=Servono 7 milioni per chiudere il bilancio il sacrificio di Britos può sistemare i conti|date=29 June 2011|accessdate=13 January 2011|work=La Repubblica|language=Italian}} and created an amortization cost of €3 million (€600,000 each for 5 seasons) from 2011 to 2016, with both players performance were impaired with costing the club €600,000.

Moreover, following Rickler was banned for 4 years, Bologna would never recovered the residual contract value €2.4M, thus both club gave up the bought back rights in June 2012. Bologna also write-down the contract value of Rickler for a season for €600,985 in the financial yearBologna FC 1909 SpA bilancio on 30 June 2012 {{in lang|it}} to make his contract residual value "worth" around €1.8 million in accounting on 1 July 2012 (however followed the ban shortened, the write-down revertedBologna FC 1909 SpA bilancio on 30 June 2013 {{in lang|it}}).

=Italian football scandal=

Rickler had been questioned by prosecutor since March 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/31040/2012/02/News.shtml|title=CALCIO SCOMMESSE. INIZIANO IL 28 FEBBRAIO LE AUDIZIONI DELLA PROCURA FEDERALE|date=20 February 2012|accessdate=3 August 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian}} On 18 June 2012 Rickler was suspended for 4 years due to involvement in 2011–12 Italian football scandal. His Piacenza and Chievo teammate Alessandro Sbaffo also request to ban 3-year and 3 months by procurator.{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/32383/2012/06/News.shtml|title=Le richieste della Procura: 81 punti ai club, sanzioni per 39 tesserati|date=1 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603224923/http://www.figc.it/it/204/32383/2012/06/News.shtml|archive-date=3 June 2012|url-status=dead}} However Sbaffo's plea bargain was successful reduced the ban by heavy fine, but Rickler employed the lawyer to defence{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/32424/2012/06/News.shtml|title=Chiuso il dibattimento, da venerdì i giudici in Camera di Consiglio|date=5 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607230315/http://www.figc.it/it/204/32424/2012/06/News.shtml|archive-date=7 June 2012|url-status=dead}} and failed to acquit the charge.{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/40.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_32610_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf|title=Comunicato Ufficiale N°101/CDN (2011–12)|date=18 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|work=Commissione Disciplinare Nazionale|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813061315/http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/40.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_32610_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf|archive-date=13 August 2012|url-status=dead}} Rickler's appeal to "Corte di Giustizia Federale" was dismissed on 6 July 2012. However his ban was shorten by Tribunale Nazionale di Arbitrato per lo Sport to 14 months after appeal.

=Mantova (loan)=

In April 2013 Rickler's ban was shortened;[http://www.coni.it/images/TNAS/629A2.pdf Official document] coni.it on 21 August 2013 Rickler left for fourth division club Mantova F.C.{{cite web|url=http://www.bolognafc.it/news.asp?id=5454|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130902174130/http://www.bolognafc.it/news.asp?id=5454|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 September 2013|title=Rickler al Mantova|date=21 August 2013|accessdate=11 October 2015|publisher=Bologna F.C. 1909|language=Italian}}

=Prato (loan)=

In July 2014 joined on loan to Prato.{{cite web|url=http://www.acprato.it/Ufficiale-Arriva-Rickler-in-Prestito.htm|title=Ufficiale: Arriva Rickler in Prestito|date=4 July 2014|access-date=11 October 2015|publisher=A.C. Prato|language=Italian}}

=International career=

He also made a total two appearances with the Italian Under-20 squad, and was also selected once for the Italian U-21 team.

Motorsport

Rickler has participated in Rally raid events since leaving football, including multiple appearances in the Dakar Rally in the trucks category.{{cite web|url=https://www.dakar.com/en/competitor/545|title=Profile of CESARE RICKLER DEL MARE|accessdate=31 December 2022|website=dakar.com|publisher=ASO}}

=Dakar Rally results=

class="wikitable"
Year

!Class

!Vehicle

!Position

2017

|rowspan=5| Trucks

|rowspan=4|{{flagicon|ITA}} Iveco

|align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|40th

2019

|align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|Not Classified

2020

|align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|Not Classified

2022

|align="center" style="background:#EFCFFF;"|DNF

2023

|{{flagicon|DEU}} MAN

|align="center"| TBD

Personal

His grandfather Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti played almost 300 games in the Serie A in the 1940s and 1950s.

References

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