{{Short description|Italian footballer and rally driver (born 1987)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Cesare Rickler | image = | fullname = Cesare Gianfranco Rickler Del Mare | height = {{height|meter=1.96}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|3|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Viareggio, Italy | position = Centre back | youthyears1 = –2001 | youthclubs1 = Calcio Lido | youthyears2 = 2001–2002 | youthclubs2 = Pistoiese | youthyears3 = 2002–2004 | youthclubs3 = Pisa | youthyears4 = 2004–2005 | youthclubs4 = Chievo | years1 = 2005–2011 | caps1 = 21 | goals1 = 0 | clubs1 = Chievo | years2 = 2008–2009 | caps2 = 20 | goals2 = 2 | clubs2 = → Piacenza (loan) | years3 = 2009–2010 | caps3 = 34 | goals3 = 0 | clubs3 = → Modena (loan) | years4 = 2010–2011 | caps4 = 23 | goals4 = 1 | clubs4 = → Piacenza (loan) | years5 = 2011–2016 | caps5 = 0 | goals5 = 0 | clubs5 = Bologna | years6 = 2013–2014 | caps6 = 14 | goals6 = 2 | clubs6 = → Mantova (loan) | years7 = 2014–2015 | caps7 = 13 | goals7 = 0 | clubs7 = → Prato (loan) | nationalyears1 = 2007 | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalteam1 = Italy U-20<ref name="figc">{{cite web |url=http://www.figc.it/nazionali/DettaglioConvocato?codiceConvocato=3202&squadra=2 |publisher=FIGC.it |language=Italian |accessdate=21 October 2008 |title=RICKLER CESARE}}</ref> | pcupdate = end of 1314 season | ntupdate = }} '''Cesare Rickler''' (born 18 March 1987) is a former Italian footballer and is currently a rally driver.
==Career==
===Chievo=== Rickler made his first team debut on 18 April 2007 in an away match against Lazio, ended in a 0–0 tie.
Rickler had only played 4 matches in Serie A and 17 in Serie B with Chievo, rest of his Chievo career was spent on loan to ''Serie B'' clubs.
===Bologna=== In June 2011 Rickler was exchanged with Alessandro Bassoli in co-ownership deal. Both players' 50% registration rights were tagged for €1.5 million. He signed a 5-year contract, which worth €100,000 in net in the first season and would gradually increased to €120,000 in the last 3 seasons, plus bonuses.<ref>Bologna FC 1909 Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 {{in lang|it}}</ref> The deal was criticized as financial trick or even creative accounting, as the aggressive price tag of both players only improved 2010–11 financial result (selling profit nearly €3M)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/06/29/servono-milioni-per-chiudere-il-bilancio-il.html|title=Servono 7 milioni per chiudere il bilancio il sacrificio di Britos può sistemare i conti|date=29 June 2011|accessdate=13 January 2011|work=La Repubblica|language=Italian}}</ref> and created an amortization cost of €3 million (€600,000 each for 5 seasons) from 2011 to 2016, with both players performance were impaired with costing the club €600,000.
Moreover, following Rickler was banned for 4 years, Bologna would never recovered the residual contract value €2.4M, thus both club gave up the bought back rights in June 2012. Bologna also write-down the contract value of Rickler for a season for €600,985 in the financial year<ref>Bologna FC 1909 SpA ''bilancio'' on 30 June 2012 {{in lang|it}}</ref> to make his contract residual value "worth" around €1.8 million in accounting on 1 July 2012 (however followed the ban shortened, the write-down reverted<ref>Bologna FC 1909 SpA ''bilancio'' on 30 June 2013 {{in lang|it}}</ref>).
===Italian football scandal=== Rickler had been questioned by prosecutor since March 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/31040/2012/02/News.shtml|title=CALCIO SCOMMESSE. INIZIANO IL 28 FEBBRAIO LE AUDIZIONI DELLA PROCURA FEDERALE|date=20 February 2012|accessdate=3 August 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian}}</ref> On 18 June 2012 Rickler was suspended for 4 years due to involvement in 2011–12 Italian football scandal. His Piacenza and Chievo teammate Alessandro Sbaffo also request to ban 3-year and 3 months by procurator.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/32383/2012/06/News.shtml|title=Le richieste della Procura: 81 punti ai club, sanzioni per 39 tesserati|date=1 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603224923/http://www.figc.it/it/204/32383/2012/06/News.shtml|archive-date=3 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> However Sbaffo's plea bargain was successful reduced the ban by heavy fine, but Rickler employed the lawyer to defence<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/it/204/32424/2012/06/News.shtml|title=Chiuso il dibattimento, da venerdì i giudici in Camera di Consiglio|date=5 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607230315/http://www.figc.it/it/204/32424/2012/06/News.shtml|archive-date=7 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and failed to acquit the charge.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/40.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_32610_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf|title=Comunicato Ufficiale N°101/CDN (2011–12)|date=18 June 2012|accessdate=18 June 2012|work=Commissione Disciplinare Nazionale|publisher=FIGC|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813061315/http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/40.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_32610_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf|archive-date=13 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rickler's appeal to "Corte di Giustizia Federale" was dismissed on 6 July 2012. However his ban was shorten by Tribunale Nazionale di Arbitrato per lo Sport to 14 months after appeal.
===Mantova (loan)=== In April 2013 Rickler's ban was shortened;<ref>[http://www.coni.it/images/TNAS/629A2.pdf Official document] coni.it</ref> on 21 August 2013 Rickler left for fourth division club Mantova F.C.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bolognafc.it/news.asp?id=5454|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130902174130/http://www.bolognafc.it/news.asp?id=5454|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 September 2013|title=Rickler al Mantova|date=21 August 2013|accessdate=11 October 2015|publisher=Bologna F.C. 1909|language=Italian}}</ref>
===Prato (loan)=== In July 2014 joined on loan to Prato.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acprato.it/Ufficiale-Arriva-Rickler-in-Prestito.htm|title=Ufficiale: Arriva Rickler in Prestito|date=4 July 2014|access-date=11 October 2015|publisher=A.C. Prato|language=Italian}}</ref>
===International career=== He also made a total two appearances with the Italian Under-20 squad, and was also selected once for the Italian U-21 team.<ref name="figc" />
==Motorsport== Rickler has participated in Rally raid events since leaving football, including multiple appearances in the Dakar Rally in the trucks category.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dakar.com/en/competitor/545|title=Profile of CESARE RICKLER DEL MARE|accessdate=31 December 2022|website=dakar.com|publisher=ASO}}</ref>
===Dakar Rally results=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Year !Class !Vehicle !Position |- !2017 |rowspan=5| Trucks |rowspan=4|{{flagicon|ITA}} Iveco |align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|40th |- !2019 |align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|Not Classified |- !2020 |align="center" style="background:#CFCFFF;"|Not Classified |- !2022 |align="center" style="background:#EFCFFF;"|DNF |- !2023 |{{flagicon|DEU}} MAN |align="center"| TBD |- |}
==Personal== His grandfather Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti played almost 300 games in the Serie A in the 1940s and 1950s.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p200676.shtml La Gazzetta dello Sport career profile] {{in lang|it}} * {{TuttoCalciatori|Rickler_Del_Mare_Cesare_Gianfranco}}
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