Enrico Catuzzi

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Enrico Catuzzi
Personnel
birthday September 23, 1946
place of birth Parma ,  Italy
date of death November 28, 2006
Place of death Parma ,  Italy
size 174 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1966 Scafatese Calcio 10 (1)
1966-1969 SSC Naples 0 (0)
1969-1971 AC Perugia 3 (1)
1971-1972 FBC Savona 18 (0)
1972-1973 US Fiorenzuola
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1979 AS Bari
1981-1983 AS Bari
1983-1984 FC Varese
1984-1986 Pescara Calcio
1986-1988 AS Bari
1988-1989 FC Piacenza
1990-1991 AC Mantova
1992-1993 Vis Pesaro
1994 SC Leffe
1994-1995 US Foggia
1996 AC Pistoiese
1997 Como Calcio
1998-1999 Acireale Calcio
2000-2001 CSKA Sofia
1 Only league games are given.

Enrico Catuzzi (born September 23, 1946 in Parma , † November 28, 2006 ibid) was an Italian football player and later coach . Senior career largely unsuccessful, he coached later among other things, Bari , Pescara Calcio and successor Zdenek Zeman , the US Foggia .

Player career

Enrico Catuzzi was born on September 23, 1946 in Parma in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna . However, he did not start playing football in his hometown, but at the smaller amateur club Scafatese Calcio in Campania , where he was in the first team from 1965 and made a total of ten games with one goal for the club in one year. Then Catuzzi joined the SSC Naples , where he was under contract from 1966 to 1969, but could not even begin to assert himself. During this time, not a single league game is in the midfielder's vita. Although he did not play, Enrico Catuzzi is still one of the victorious SSC Napoli team in the 1966 Alpine Cup .

From 1969 to 1971 Catuzzi then played at AC Perugia . In the up-and-coming second division, however, he did not get beyond the role of reservist and only completed three league games in two years, in which he at least scored a goal. Perugia finished tenth and sixth in Serie B.

This was followed by one-year engagements at FBC Savona from 1971 to 1972 and at US Fiorenzuola from 1972 to 1973. In the last year, Enrico Catuzzi ended his footballing career at the age of only 27.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Enrico Catuzzi became a coach. In this role he started in his hometown at AC Parma as a youth coach. This term lasted from 1975 to 1978 before Catuzzi moved to SSC Palermo to work there in the same position. After a year in Sicily , he became assistant coach of AS Bari under Giulio Corsini . After Corsini's dismissal in late April 1979, Catuzzi took over the club's second division team until the end of the season and still achieved relegation. But then he returned to the youth field and coached the youth team of AS Bari until 1981. With this Enrico Catuzzi won the Coppa Italia Primavera in the 1980/81 season .

After 28 match days of Serie B in 1980/81 , Enrico Catuzzi succeeded the dismissed Antonio Renna at AS Bari and helped the team again to stay in the league. This time Catuzzi was also permanently hired as head coach and was on the sidelines of AS Bari until 1983. In the first season you missed promotion to Serie A by just two points over SC Pisa . The following season was much worse for AS Bari, because they quickly found themselves in the relegation battle. After 25 matchdays, the club separated from Enrico Catuzzi and replaced him with Luigi Radice , who could not prevent relegation to the third division as the last in Serie B. For the 1983/84 season Catuzzi took over at FC Varese , with whom he was tenth in Serie B. The coach's next job was the Stadio Adriatico in Pescara Calcio , where he coached from 1984 to 1986. After finishing seventh in Serie B in the first year, the 1985/86 season actually ended with relegation to Serie C1 . Due to a license withdrawal against SSC Palermo, Pescara Calcio remained in Serie B, Enrico Catuzzi lost his job anyway.

This then returned to the first division relegated AS Bari, with whom he was only ninth in Serie B in 1986/87 . In the following year, the targeted promotion was missed with seventh place, Catuzzi's contract was not extended. This coaching in the first half of the 1988/89 Serie B to FC Piacenza , who had to descend but that season. Catuzzi was released early on, but his successor Attilio Perotti did not change anything at the end of the season . After a year break, Enrico Catuzzi took over third division AC Mantova in 1990 , with whom he was also relegated. He then worked as a youth coach again for a year, this time at Lazio Rome , before he took over the then Serie C1 club Vis Pesaro in the summer of 1992 , was fourteenth with it and actually held the class. However, Vis Pesaro went bankrupt in the summer of 1993 and had to be relegated, Enrico Catuzzi then left the club. In 1994 he was briefly coach of SC Leffe , also in Serie C1.

In the summer of 1994 Enrico Catuzzi, known throughout Italy for his modern style of playing zone defense and his tactical system of 4-3-3, succeeded the successful Czech coach Zdeněk Zeman at US Foggia . The club had previously caused surprises in Serie A in three years with relatively limited financial resources and highly attacking football and was nicknamed Foggia dei Miracoli . However, with the departure of Zemans to Lazio Rome , the success of US Foggia also decreased. Under Catuzzi, the team was only sixteenth in Serie A 1994/95 and was relegated. To date, Foggia has not made it back up, making Enrico Catuzzi the last first division coach of the traditional club to this day. In the Coppa Italia 1994/95 Catuzzi advanced with the US Foggia to the semi-finals, where they were defeated by AC Parma 2: 4 on a two-way leg.

Catuzzi's following stations at AC Pistoise 1996 and Como Calcio 1997 were not very successful. With Acireale Calcio , he rose to the C2 series in 1998/99 . Catuzzi had his last job as a football coach in 2000 and 2001 with the Bulgarian record champions CSKA Sofia . But here too there were no real successes.

After that, Catuzzi retired from the football business. He died on November 28, 2006 at the age of 60 in his native Parma of complications from a heart attack.

successes

As a player

1966 with the SSC Napoli

As a trainer

1980/81 with AS Bari

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personal data
SURNAME Catuzzi, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Parma , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2006
Place of death Parma , Italy