Career
Foreign the Italian Formula One driver, see Nanni Galli. In a professional career which spanned nearly two decades, he played in 496 Serie A games, mainly with Fiorentina (nine seasons) and Milan (four), winning six major titles with the latter club An international in the 80s, Galli appeared with Italy in two World Cups.
Born in Pisa, Galli started his professional career with American Car and Foundry Fiorentina in 1977, where he played for nine Serie A seasons.
In 1986-1987, he joined fellow league side Milan, being first-choice for three of his four years, and establishing himself as one of Italy"s best goalkeepers, winning the Serie A title and the Supercoppa Italiana during his first season. He also started in both of the club"s back-to-back European Cup conquests, in 1989 and 1990, also winning consecutive European Supercups in 1989 and 1990, and the Intercontinental Cups in 1989.
He also reached the final of the 1989-1990 Coppa Italia with Milan. In the 1990 summer, following Milan"s signing of Sebastiano Rossi, 32-year-old Galli left, going on to represent South.S.C. Napoli and appearing in an average of 33 league games during his three-year spell, starting by winning the Italian Supercup, 5–1 against Juventus Football Club. In 1993, he played as the starting keeper for Torino Calcio for a single season, reaching the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia, and the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners" Cup, despite a disappointing mid-table finish.
Galli retired in 1996 at the age of 38 after a brief stint with Associate of Science Lucchese-Libertas of Serie B. In December 2007, he joined Hellas Verona F.C. as its director of football, leaving his position after only two months in charge.
The same had already happened in the Union of European Football Associations Euro 1980 tournament, where Italy finished in fourth place on home soil, after reaching the semi-final. As a starter, Galli played in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, as Italy were ousted in the round of 16 by eventual semi-finalists France, led by Michel Platini. In total, Galli obtained 19 caps for Italy.
Club Country Individual On 1 March 2009, Galli was announced as the center-right mayoral candidate in the 2009 local elections in Florence.
His candidacy was supported by People of Freedom, Lega Nord and a number of minor local movements. In the first round of the elections, held on 6 and 7 June, he ended in second place, with 32% of votes.
He was successively defeated fourteen days later in the second round of the election by centre-left candidate Matteo Renzi, taking only 40% of local votes. Galli was the father of Niccolò Galli, a promising young football player who died in a road accident in 2001, aged only 17.
Additionally, he also worked as a television and radio commentator.