18 Facts About Sergio Pellissier

Sergio Pellissier is currently working as owner and chairman of AC ChievoVerona, after FC Clivense was reestablished as the previously defunct ChievoVerona.

Sergio Pellissier was promptly loaned for two seasons to SPAL.

Sergio Pellissier helped Chievo to qualify for both the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Champions League, and represented the team in both those competitions.

At international level, Sergio Pellissier played five times for Italy's national under-17 youth squad in 1997, and appeared in a single match for the Italy senior team in 2009, scoring a goal.

Sergio Pellissier was 12 when he scored three goals against Torino FC on a tournament in Nus and Fenis for the local team Fenusma, and Torino showed interest on him.

Sergio Pellissier then moved alone to Turin but after some time he wanted to return to his home; when Pellissier was 14 he returned definitively to Torino.

Sergio Pellissier moved on loan to the Serie C1 side Varese, where he made 53 appearances and scored nine goals between September 1998 and 2000.

Sergio Pellissier was signed by Chievo in 2000, but was loaned to Ferrara-based club SPAL during his first year with the Verona-based side; during his one and a half seasons with SPAL, he scored 17 goals in 44 appearances.

Chievo were knocked out of the UEFA Cup by Sporting Braga in two matches, in which Sergio Pellissier was not on the team's lineup.

Sergio Pellissier scored 9 league goals in 36 appearances, but on the final day, Chievo were relegated to Serie B for the first time.

Sergio Pellissier played 35 matches and scored 11 goals in the following season, with consecutive scores in the third and fourth round, in the 21st and 22nd, and in the 34th and 35th.

In July 2013, Sergio Pellissier renewed his contract with Chievo for two years.

Sergio Pellissier made five appearances for the Italy national under-17 football team between April and May 1997; he scored no goals for the Italian under-17 side.

In May 2009, Sergio Pellissier received his first call up to the Italian senior national team by coach Marcello Lippi to play in a friendly against Northern Ireland.

Sergio Pellissier is able to be deployed as an out-and-out striker, or as a right winger, due to his tendency to drift out wide, and then cut into the centre to strike on goal with his stronger left foot.

Sergio Pellissier has stood out for his longevity, leadership, and loyalty throughout his career.

Sergio Pellissier successively accepted to join Rovigo as the club's new general director, a role he kept for a very brief amount of time due to regulations preventing from being contracted for two separate league clubs.

In 2001, during the time Sergio Pellissier was playing for SPAL in Ferrara, he met Gian Micaela Viadana in a restaurant in which she was working.