Marco Vanchetti

Senior:

* 2012-2013 A.C.R. Siena 1904 (19 aps 1 gl)
* 2013-2021 A.C Milan (193 aps) (0 gls)
* 2021-2023 BSC Young Boys (72 aps) (0 gls)
* 2023- A.C Milan (8 aps) (0 gis)

Marco Vanchetti is a Vatican player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for A.C Milan.

## Club Career

### Early Career

Vanchetti discovered his love for soccer when his cousin Edoardo Porto convinced him to be goalkeeper for himself to practise shooting against. Porto was finding it hard to score against Vanchetti and realised that Vanchetti should try out for a team. Vanchetti agreed knowing that he wasn't good enough but he made it to the ACR Siena youth team.

### ACR Siena

After four successful youth seasons and a call up to Vatican City youth, Vanchetti finally got called up for the seniors as Siena's second choice goalkeeper. Halfway through the season Vanchetti finally got his seniors debut as first choice keeper, Gianluca Pegolo injured his ACL. His debut game was not very successful as Siena went on to lose 1-3 to Juventus. Since then, Vanchetti guided his team to an eighth place finish and to the quarter finals of the Coppa Italia.

#### Scoring for Siena

In the Round of 16 of The Coppa Italia, Siena were level with Chievo 1-1 until the 94th minute where Vanchetti was asked to go up for a corner. Chievo's keeper saved it but the ball fell to Vanchetti and then he shot and scored.

### AC Milan

#### 2013-14 Season

Vanchetti signed for AC Milan for a fee of only 3 million dollars. He made his AC Milan debut in a Europa League Game against Bro where the result was a 1-0 win. He drew his first AC Milan Serie A game 0-0 against Lazio keeping another clean sheet. After only conceding two goals in six games, he was nominated for the Serie A Player Of The Month but fell out short to the only man who scored against him: Francesco Totti. Vanchetti ended the season in a 4th place finish and got 14 clean sheets.

#### 2014-15 Season

In the 2014-15 season, Vanchetti ended up becoming the team's first choice goalkeeper and opened the Serie A campaign with 5 clean sheets in 7 matches. For his performances in September, we was awarded a Player of The Month award being his second Player of The Month award in his career. Vanchetti was given heavy criticism for his mistakes in the Europa League Third Qualifying Round. He only pulled off 1 save throughout the two legs and conceded 4 goals in the process. Vanchetti kept on diving too late for the ball and even got a red card.

On 30th November 2014, Vanchetti got his second red card in his career by punching a Udinese player in the face and breaking his nose. Vanchetti had to serve an eight game ban and had to pay a fine. On 20 December, Vanchetti won the award for Vatican Player of The Year and finished 4th in the Ballon D'or only behind Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo and Manuel Neuer.

Vanchetti returned to playing Soccer on 7th February 2015 on a derby game against Juventus, where he lost and conceded 2 goals. On 30th May 2015, Milan needed a win to qualify for the Champions League, they were facing Atalanta who also needed a win to qualify for the Champions League. In the 10th minute Vanchetti was in an one-on-one situation against Maxi Moralez, Moralez went for a shot in the bottom right-hand corner but it was too late as Vanchetti got on to it, Vanchetti got 4 saves and even an assist for the winning goal to secure Milan in the Champions League.

### 2015-16 Season: Earning Captaincy

June 2015, the AC Milan manager at the time gave Vachetti the captain's armband.

In The Champions League 2015-16 Play-off match, Milan got drawn in a favourable draw against Górnik Zabrze. Vanchetti saved a penalty in the first leg and kept a clean sheet in the second to help Milan qualify for the Group Stages. Vanchetti won the award for Vatican Player of The Year for the second time in a row and got 3rd in the Ballon D'or.

On January 2016, Vanchetti signed a contract extension to stay at the club until 2019.