Dante Micheli

Dante Micheli
Personal information
Date of birth (1939-02-18)18 February 1939
Place of birth Mantua,[1] Italy
Date of death 10 June 2012(2012-06-10) (aged 73)
Place of death Mantua,[2] Italy
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1959 Mantova 104 (38)
1959–1960 SPAL 34 (1)
1960–1961 Fiorentina 14 (1)
1961–1964 SPAL 82 (10)
1964–1967 Foggia 89 (14)
1967–1973 Mantova 156 (4)
Total 479 (68)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dante Micheli (10 February 1939 – 10 June 2012[2]) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. He scored 68 goals from 479 league appearances, of which more than 250 were made in Serie A.

Micheli played for Mantova, SPAL, Fiorentina and Foggia.[1] He was a member of the Fiorentina team that defeated Rangers 4–1 to win the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup.[3]

  1. ^ a b c "Micheli Dante". enciclopediadelcalcio.it. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  2. ^ a b Negri, Paolo (12 June 2012). "Spal in lutto per un grande. Se n'è andato Micheli" [Spal in mourning for a great. Micheli is gone]. La Nuova Ferrara (in Italian). Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  3. ^ Murray, Keir (22 April 2008). "When Rangers met Fiorentina in '61". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2012.