Luciano Chiarugi

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Luciano Chiarugi
Chiarugi Amsterdam 1974.jpg
Luciano Chiarugi 1974
Personnel
birthday January 13, 1947
place of birth PonsaccoItaly
size 170 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1972 AC Florence 140 (33)
1972-1976 AC Milan 104 (37)
1976-1988 SSC Naples 34 0(7)
1978-1979 Sampdoria Genoa 30 0(5)
1979-1980 Bologna FC 13 0(3)
1980-1981 Rimini Calcio 13 0(1)
1981-1982 Rondinella Marzocco 22 0(7)
1982-1985 US Massese 60 (19)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1974 Italy 3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1993 AC Florence
2002 AC Florence
2007-2008 US Poggibonsi
1 Only league games are given.

Luciano Chiarugi (born January 13, 1947 in Ponsacco ) is a former Italian football player and later coach . As an active player, he was particularly successful in the jersey of AC Florence , AC Milan and SSC Napoli , he later worked as a coach for example twice on an interim basis at Fiorentina .

Player career

Club career

Luciano Chiarugi, born in 1947 in the small town of Ponsacco in Lazio , began playing football in the youth department of Fiorentina , where he was first appointed to the Tuscan professional team in 1965 by coach Giuseppe Chiappella . As a result, Chiarugi played in the Fiorentina jersey for seven years and soon managed to establish himself as an absolute regular player. The young striker was already there in his first year as a professional when his club won the final in the Coppa Italia 1965/66 with 2-1 after extra time against US Catanzaro , but Chiarugi did not succeed in scoring. In 1968 the Argentinian Bruno Pesaola became the new trainer at Fiorentina and with him came the great success. For only the second and, until now, the last time, the team around players such as Giancarlo De Sisti , Amarildo and Ugo Ferrante secured the Italian football championship. In the Serie A 1968/69 they had occupied the first place with four points ahead of the second placed US Cagliari . In the following years, the performance of Fiorentina went downhill, only two years after winning the title, relegation could only be avoided badly. Luciano Chiarugi stayed with Fiorentina until the summer of 1972 and played a total of 140 league games for the club, in which he scored 33 goals.

Luciano Chiarugi in the AC Milan jersey (1972)

In 1972 he moved to AC Milan for four years , where he was very successful under coach Nereo Rocco , especially in the Coppa Italia . In the 1972/73 season, for example, they won the cup on penalties against Juventus Turin , while two years later they failed in the final despite a goal by Chiarugi against his former club from Florence . Milan also reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup twice in a row in those years . In 1972/73 they defeated the English representative of Leeds United with a goal by Luciano Chiarugi in the fifth minute with 1-0, but a year later as defending champion they had to admit defeat to the East German club 1. FC Magdeburg , Chiarugi was defeated by the new coach Giovanni Trapattoni not even used.

After the end of the 1975/76 season , Luciano Chiarugi moved after 104 league games with 37 goals for AC Milan again the club and joined the SSC Napoli in the south of Italy, where he was under contract for two years and with the Campanian club in the 1977/78 season again advanced to the final of the Coppa Italia, now his fourth participation in the final in this competition, but lost 2-1 to Inter Milan . After the end of this season, Chiarugi moved on to Sampdoria Genoa , where he made all thirty games of the season for the club, which has now slipped into Serie B , but clearly missed promotion. He then went to Bologna FC , with whom he finished Serie A in 1979/80 in thirteenth place in the table and avoided relegation only because of the better goal difference over Lanerossi Vicenza and Atalanta Bergamo .

After relegation, Luciano Chiarugi turned his back on FC Bologna and moved to the second division for Rimini Calcio . There, as well as at the two lower-class clubs VG Rondinella Marzocco and US Massese , Chiarugi let his active career end before he finally gave up competitive sport in 1985 at the age of 38.

National team

Between 1969 and 1974, Luciano Chiarugi made three international matches for the Italian national football team . He did not succeed in scoring, although he was mostly a substitute for other attackers in the squad. So he also missed the big tournaments at that time and can book neither a participation in a world nor a European championship .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Luciano Chiarugi became coach. In this capacity he first worked in 1993, when he replaced the dismissed Aldo Agroppi in Florence, but could no longer save his old club from the bitter transition to the second division. After relegation, Chiarugi was replaced by Claudio Ranieri , who easily led the Fiorentina back to Serie A. This scenario was repeated in 2002 when Chiarugi inherited the unsuccessful Roberto Mancini , but was soon dismissed and replaced by Ottavio Bianchi , who could not avoid going into the second division for Fiorentina.

Later, Luciano Chiarugi had a coaching position, namely in the 2007/08 season at the then fourth division US Poggibonsi , with whom he finished the season in sixth.

successes

1972/73 with AC Milan
  • Final in the European Cup Winners' Cup : 1 ×
1973/74 with AC Milan
1968/69 with Fiorentina
1965/66 with AC Florence
1972/73 with AC Milan
  • Coppa Italia final : 2 ×
1974/75 with AC Milan
1977/78 with the SSC Napoli
1966 with AC Florence
1976 with the SSC Napoli

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