Luigi Sartor

Luigi Sartor was an Italian footballer who started in the Padova youth team before a record billion lire move (for a junior) to Juventus in 1992. When he played against Anorthosis Larnaca in the UEFA Cup in September 1992, Sartor became the club’s youngest ever player in a European tournament, as Juve went on to win that year’s competition. He made his Serie A début six weeks later.

Sartor moved to Serie B side Vicenza in 1994, after a loan spell at Reggiana. However, he returned to the top flight with Internazionale Milano, Parma, A.S. Roma, and Ancona. In total he made 166 Serie A appearances. Sartor ended his career at Ternana in 2010 and, as of the start of the 2019/20 season, he was the only Italian to have won three UEFA Cups with three different teams (Juventus 1993, Inter 1998, Parma 1999). He is also one of three players, with Colombia’s Radamel Falcao and Germany’s Marko Marin, to have won it two years in succession with two different clubs.

Sartor won nine Italian under-21 caps, and was in their side that won the 1996 European Championship. That same year he competed at the Atlanta Olympics, but played only 77 minutes, in the match against Ghana at Washington. He made his full international début against Paraguay in 1998 but earned just one more cap, four years later, against the USA.