Curcio was born in 1953 in
Sant'Angelo di Brolo, in the
Province of Messina,
Sicily. As a youngster, he played local football for Orlandina before joining
Messina, where he made his senior debut on the opening day of the
1972–73 Serie C season in the starting eleven for a goalless draw away to
Trani. Curcio finished the season with 13 appearances as his team were relegated, but the following season scored four goals from 23 appearances as Messina won their section of
Serie D. His performances earned the 21-year-old Curcio a move to
Roma of
Serie A. Head coach
Nils Liedholm gave him his debut as a second-half substitute on the opening day of the
1974–75 season in a 1–0 defeat away to
Torino; his introduction livened up the attack, but made no difference to the score. He made two more appearances in 1974 and, after some muscle problems, made an unexpected return to the first team for the visit to
Vicenza on 5 January 1975. Demonstrating pace, trickery and clean shooting, he scored both goals in a 2–0 win that extended Roma's winning run to five Curcio joined
Alessandria at the start of the 1975–76 season, but in three months he played twice in the
Coppa Italia Semiprofessionisti and not at all in
Serie C. Interviewed some 40 years later, he recalled believing he was not good enough, and that Roma's reasoning for moving him on was that with him in the team, they finished third, but with someone better in his place, they could win the title. In November, he joined another Serie C side,
Cosenza, At 28, he retired from football and settled in
Capo d'Orlando, Messina, where he took up coaching
artistic gymnastics. Initially he taught his daughters, but then opened a gym where other young girls could train, and the ASD Gymnasium Ginnastica Artistica expanded into a training centre "looking more like a theme park than a gym" with 150 girls of all ages. ==References==