Stefano Borgonovo

Infobox Football biography


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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|3|17
cityofbirth = Giussano
countryofbirth = Italy
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height = 1,78 m
position = Striker
currentclub = Retired
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years = 1981-86 1984-85 1986-90 1986-88 1988-89 1990-92 1992-93 1993-96 1994-95
clubs = Como Calcio → Sambenedettese (loan) AC Milan → Como Calcio (loan) → Fiorentina (loan) Fiorentina Pescara Calcio Udinese → Brescia Calcio (loan)
caps(goals) = 53 (13) 33 (13) 13 0(2) 33 0(3) 30 (14) 37 0(4) 35 (11) 14 0(2) 14 0(0)
nationalyears = 1985-86 1989
nationalteam = Italy U-21 Italy
nationalcaps(goals) = 03 0(1) 03 0(0)
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Stefano Borgonovo (born March 17, 1964 in Giussano) is an Italian former footballer, in the striker role.

Football career

Born in Giussano, Borgonovo began his career with Como Calcio, debuting as a 17 year-old in a Serie A match against Ascoli Calcio. After a loan spell at Sambenedettese Calcio, Borgnovo established himself as an key player at Como, and in 1986 moved to A.C. Milan, who immediately loaned him back to Como.

After two years there, he was sent on loan again, this time to ACF Fiorentina, where had the most successful season of his career, scoring 14 league goals while playing alongside Roberto Baggio. This earned him three caps for Italy and finally a chance to prove himself at Milan. He spent much of the 1989-90 season as backup to Marco van Basten and, despite earning a European Cup winners' medal, moved on, keen to play regular first-team football. Although then Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi was keen to keep his services, he returned to Fiorentina, where he spent two years without managing to recapture his previous form.

Spells at Pescara Calcio, Udinese and Brescia Calcio followed, before Borgonovo retired in 1996. He later served as a youth coach back at Como, but retired in 2005 due to poor health.

Illness

On September 5, 2008, it was revealed Borgonovo was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the same illness that slowly killed Gianluca Signorini, another former Serie A player, in 2002. [cite news |url=http://www.corriere.it/salute/08_settembre_05/borgonovo_sla_lou_gherig_calciatori_55047c50-7b07-11dd-9625-00144f02aabc.shtml |publisher=Corriere della Sera |language=Italian |title=«I, Borgonovo, sick with SLA, fighting to survive»|accessdate=2008-09-05|date=2008-09-05]

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