Zecchini began playing football with local side Forlì.

After a spell with lower-level sides Patro, he joined Brescia in 1969, where he would make his Serie A debut against Roma on 21 September 1969.

He made his debut for the Italy national football team on 28 September 1974 in a game against Yugoslavia.

His playing career on a professional level ended with a 3-year ban from football in the Totonero 1980 match-fixing scandal.

This biographical article related to association football in Italy, about a defender born in the 1940s, is a stub.