[1][2] After his time with Juventus during the 60s and early 70s, he played for Atalanta for a season in Serie B, helping his club to gain promotion also thanks to a notable unbeaten streak of 792 minutes.

After retiring, however, he was called upon by Valdagno in the minor Promozione League, to replace their sick goalkeeper, and he played 26 matches, conceding only 4 goals, at the age of 46.

He made his only appearance for the Azzurri in a friendly pre-World Cup match against Mexico on 29 June 1966, which ended in a 5–0 victory for Italy,[3] as he was later kept out of the squad by Dino Zoff.

He was an effective, reactive, and agile goalkeeper, with a good positional sense, who was very quick to come off his line and collect low balls in the area, although at times he was caught out on crosses as he was neither particularly tall nor physically imposing.

Because of his name, agility, and his relatively small stature and slender build for a goalkeeper – standing at 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) –, he was given the nickname "the mosquito" (la zanzara, in Italian).