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Massimiliano Ossari

Italian footballer (1977-2002)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ3851066
Source-derived summary

Massimiliano Ossari (29 April 1977 – 22 April 2002) was an Italian professional footballer who played defender.

Career

Ossari played for the youth club of Calcio Padova. He made his debut in Serie A on 23 December 1995 in the last twenty minutes of the Piacenza-Padova over 1-1. He took the field in the match against Napoli finished 4-2 for biancoscudati. His career mostly alternated between Serie C1 and Serie C2 with the Novara, Giorgione, Cremonese (with which marks his only goal), Poggesi and Thiene.

On 1 July 1995 Ossari played for the National Under-18 team. Italy-Slovenia finished 4–0.

On 22 April 2002 he died in a car accident.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Massimiliano Ossari” is italian footballer (1977-2002). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Massimiliano, Ossari and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2002, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-04-29. For this dossier, Massimiliano, Ossari and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3851066. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2002 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from Massimiliano Ossari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.