Mario Da Pozzo

{{short description|Italian former football goalkeeper|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Mario Da Pozzo

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|7|9|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Legnago, Italy

| position = Goalkeeper

| years1 = 1958–1959

| years2 = 1959–1960

| years3 = 1960–1961

| years4 = 1961–1965

| years5 = 1965–1969

| years6 = 1969–1973

| years7 = 1973–1974

| clubs1 = Inter

| clubs2 = Catanzaro

| clubs3 = Inter

| clubs4 = Genoa

| clubs5 = Varese

| clubs6 = Mantova

| clubs7 = Napoli

| caps1 = 2 | goals1 =

| caps2 = 18 | goals2 =

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Mario Da Pozzo (born 9 July 1939 in Legnago, Province of Verona) is an Italian former football goalkeeper.{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.com/Dapozzo.html|title=Da Pozzo, Mario|publisher=Enciclopedia del Calcio|language=Italian|accessdate=27 February 2016}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Career

Throughout his career, Da Pozzo played for Inter (1958–59; 1960–61), Catanzaro (1959–60), Genoa (1961–65), Varese (1965–69), Mantova (1969–73), and Napoli (1973–74). He made his debut in Serie A with Inter, on 2 June 1959, in a 1–1 away draw against Alessandria. During his time with Genoa, he won a Serie B title, and the Coppa delle Alpi twice; he also established what was, at the time, the record for the most minutes without conceding in Serie A, during the 1963–64 season, going unbeaten for 791 minutes. He held the record until it was broken by Juventus's Dino Zoff, during the 1972–73 season.{{cite web|url=http://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/genoa/?action=read&idnet=cGlhbmV0YWdlbm9hMTg5My5uZXQtNjcxNg|title=Da Pozzo stabilisce nel 1964 il record di imbattibilità per la serie A|publisher=Tuttomercatoweb|language=Italian|author1=Marco Liguori|date=26 January 2010|accessdate=27 February 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234926/http://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/genoa/?action=read&idnet=cGlhbmV0YWdlbm9hMTg5My5uZXQtNjcxNg|archivedate=4 March 2016}} Currently, his unbeaten streak is the fourth best in Serie A history.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/buffon-closing-record-double-header-against-inter-130520862.html|title=Buffon closing in on record in double-header against Inter|publisher=Yahoo|author1=DANIELLA MATAR|date=25 February 2016|accessdate=27 February 2016}} With Mantova, he won another Serie B title during the 1970–71 season, also setting a record for the most minutes without conceding a goal in the Italian second division during the same season, with an 878-minute unbeaten streak.