Giovanni Sartori (footballer)

{{short description|Italian footballer and official}}

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{{BLP sources|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Giovanni Sartori

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|3|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lodi, Italy

| height = {{height|m=1.80}}

| currentclub = Bologna (technical director){{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

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| position = Striker

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Milan

| years1 = 1974–1979

| years2 = 1975–1976

| years3 = 1976–1977

| years4 = 1977–1978

| years5 = 1979–1981

| years6 = 1981–1982

| years7 = 1982–1983

| years8 = 1983–1984

| years9 = 1984–1989

| clubs1 = Milan

| clubs2 = → Venezia (loan)

| clubs3 = → Udinese (loan)

| clubs4 = → Bolzano (loan)

| clubs5 = Sampdoria

| clubs6 = Cavese

| clubs7 = Arezzo

| clubs8 = Ternana

| clubs9 = Chievo

| caps1 = 7

| caps2 = 25

| caps3 = 11

| caps4 = 29

| caps5 = 45

| caps6 = 26

| caps7 = 18

| caps8 = 21

| caps9 = 113

| goals1 = 0

| goals2 = 6

| goals3 = 2

| goals4 = 11

| goals5 = 11

| goals6 = 6

| goals7 = 2

| goals8 = 3

| goals9 = 33

| nationalyears1 =

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| nationalgoals1 =

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Giovanni Sartori (born 31 March 1957) is an Italian football official and a former professional player who currently works as technical director of Bologna.

He scored 43 goals from 217 appearances in the Italian professional leagues, which included 7 appearances without scoring in the 1978–79 Serie A season for A.C. Milan,{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/giovanni-sartori/2/ |title=Giovanni Sartori: Club matches |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HeimSpiel Medien |accessdate=January 30, 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.carrierecalciatori.it/it/giocatori/21014-Giovanni%20Sartori |title=Statistiche su Sartori Giovanni |website=CarriereCalciatori.it |accessdate=January 30, 2020}} winning the championship with the team.

He was the director of sports for ChievoVerona from 1992 to 2014,{{cite news |url=https://sport.repubblica.it/news/sport/calcio-chievo-il-ds-sartori-si-dimette/4521150 |title=Calcio, Chievo: il DS Sartori si dimette dopo 22 anni |newspaper=La Repubblica |date=July 7, 2014 |accessdate=January 30, 2020}} and then joined Atalanta as technical director.{{cite web |url=http://www.atalanta.it/site/paginalive/comunicati-dal-club/Stagione-2014-2015/2014-08/01-08-Giovanni-Sartori-entra-nel-Mondo-Atalanta.html |title=Giovanni Sartori all'Atalanta |publisher=Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio |date=August 1, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809214636/http://www.atalanta.it/site/paginalive/comunicati-dal-club/Stagione-2014-2015/2014-08/01-08-Giovanni-Sartori-entra-nel-Mondo-Atalanta.html |archivedate=August 9, 2014}}

He was fined €15,000 for his involvement in the 2006 false accounting scandal.

In 2021, he was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |date=3 February 2022 |title=Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini and Bonansea among those inducted |url=https://www.figc.it/en/figc/news/hall-of-fame-nesta-rummenigge-conte-rocchi-cabrini-and-bonansea-among-those-inducted/ |access-date=3 February 2022 |website=Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio |language=en}}