Paolo Palmacci

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Paolo Palmacci
Personal information
Full name Paolo Palmacci
Date of birth (1984-05-17) 17 May 1984 (age 37)
Place of birth Latina, Italy[1]
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder[2]
Number 11
National team‡
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006– Italy 273 (229)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 December 2019[3]

Paolo Palmacci (born 17 May 1984), is an Italian beach soccer player who plays as a midfielder, having originally started as a forward.[4]

He has appeared at eight editions of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup representing the Italian national team, earning a silver medal on two occasions (2008 and 2019), and, as of 2019, is the most-capped Italian player ever.[5]

Career[]

Palmacci began playing football aged 6. He originally pursued association football, making appearances in both Serie D and Serie C1.[6]

In 2003, aged 19, he started playing beach soccer, in his hometown of Terracina.[4][6] In 2005, he began competing for the city's beach soccer club in the LND Serie A, Italy's national beach soccer league.[7]

Palmacci was first called up to the Italian national team in 2006,[1] aged 22, for an exhibition tournament in Réunion.[8] He was subsequently a surprise inclusion in Italy's final 12-man squad for the 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup a month later.[9]

At the 2008 World Cup, he scored his self-proclaimed favourite ever beach soccer goal, an overhead kick in the quarter-final victory over France.[4][10] He then went on to score one of Italy's three goals in the defeat against Brazil in the final.[11]

In 2011, he won the domestic treble with Terracina (league, cup and super cup).[6]

Palmacci became Italy's all-time record appearance maker at the 2015 European Games in Baku, overtaking the previous holder, Michele Leghissa.[12]

At the 2017 World Cup qualifiers in September 2016, Palmacci reached 189 goals for his country, becoming Italy's all-time record goalscorer, surpassing .[13] However, he has since relinquished this record to Gabriele Gori.[5] He also made his 200th appearance for Italy at the tournament, against Poland in the semi-finals.[7]

After 11 years with Terracina, Palmacci made a "shock" move to rival club Catania in 2017.[10] Later that year, Palmacci reached the milestone of 200 goals for Italy in an 11–4 victory against Ukraine during the Superfinal of the Euro Beach Soccer League.[14] In 2019, he was one of just two surviving Italian players to play in the World Cup final against Portugal, having also played Italy's only previous final in 2008.[3]

Statistics[]

Competition Year Apps Goals Ref.
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Brazil 2006 3 1 [1]
Brazil 2007 3 3
France 2008 6 5
United Arab Emirates 2009 4 3
Italy 2011 4 7
Portugal 2015 6 4
The Bahamas 2017 5 5
Paraguay 2019 6 0
Total 37 28 —

Honours[]

As of 2019 season

The following is a selection, not an exhaustive list, of the major honours Palmacci has achieved with Italy:

Team[]

Individual[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Latina, la Nazionale italiana di beach soccer a Formia per uno stage al campo Coni". Il Messaggero (in Italian). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Paraguay 2019 – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. 15 November 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "L'Italia a un passo dalla vetta del Mondo. Oggi in Paraguay gli Azzurri si contendono il titolo con il Portogallo". Italian Football Federation (in Italian). 1 December 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Intervista a Paolo Palmacci, il recordman dell'ItalBeach!". Italian Football Federation (in Italian). 29 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "World Cup Beach Soccer, conosciamo meglio tutti gli azzurri mondiali". Sky Sport (in Italian). 20 November 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "PAOLO PALMACCI - EQUIPE D'ITALIE DE BEACH SOCCER : " LE BEACH SOCCER C'EST MERVEILLEUX"". Number5.fr (in French). 25 June 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Paolo Palmacci nella Hall of Fame dei Mondiali". Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (in Italian). 10 February 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Gli azzurri volano all'Ile de La Reunion". Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (in Italian). October 2006. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  9. ^ "FIFA WORLD CUP: Lunedì si parte, ecco i convocati". Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (in Italian). November 2006. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Acquisto shock della Domusbet Catania: Paolo Palmacci!". Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (in Italian). 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  11. ^ "Brazil rule the world". FIFA. 27 July 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Conosciamo meglio gli azzurri: i centrocampisti". Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (in Italian). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Italia ai Mondiali 2017. Paolo Palmacci nella storia..." AnxurTime (in Italian). 12 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Beach soccer: le 200 perle di Paolo Pablito Palmacci. L'italia vola all'Europeo". AnxurTime (in Italian). 15 September 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.

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