Lelio Antoniotti was born in Bard (Aosta Valley) on January 17, 1928.
He started playing football with Sparta Novara and debuted in Serie C in the 1945-46 season. In the following year he signed for Pro Patria in Serie B and with 22 goals in 35 appearances contributed to the club’s promotion to Serie A. The team managed to stay in the top tier with an 8th place and Antoniotti scored 11 goals. Unfortunately, pleurisy maimed his subsequent two years where he made much fewer appearances (19 games with 9 goals). His last year in Lombardy was 1950-51 where he played a lot more but did not score as much, just six goals in 32 appearances.
In 1951-52 he signed for Lazio. The goal-scoring drought continued and in his two years in Rome he only scored ten goals in 53 games. It did not get better when he moved to Turin in 1953. With Torino he played 78 games with 13 goals. His last three years were with Juventus, Vicenza and Novara.
When he finished playing football, he became part of the Italian Football Federation Staff and was in charge of courses on football techniques. Later on, he was one of the examiners for the Coverciano Manager course.
Antoniotti was not a bad player, but perhaps he was too small to be a centre-forward, more like Paolo Rossi without the speed than Christian Vieri. But he was good with his feet and knew what to do with the ball. The only problem is that a centre forward has to score goals, and he scored too few.
Lazio Career
Season | Apperances Serie A (goals) |
1951-52 | 29 (6) |
1952-53 | 24 (4) |
Total | 53 (10) |
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