Adolfo Baloncieri

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Adolfo Baloncieri
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Adolfo Baloncieri
Personnel
birthday July 27, 1897
place of birth Castelceriolo d'Alessandria ,  Italy
date of death July 23, 1986
Place of death Alessandria , Italy
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1919-1925 US Alessandria Calcio 121 (72)
1925-1932 Torino FC 192 (97)
1932-1933 Comense 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1920-1930 Italy 47 (25)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1931-1932 FBC Turin ( assistant coach )
1932-1933 Comense
1934-1936 AC Milan
1936-1937 AC Novara
1937-1939 AC Liguria
1939-1940 AC Napoli
1940-1942 AC Liguria
1942-1945 US Alessandria
1945-1946 AC Milan
1946-1947 FC Chiasso
1947-1950 Sampdoria Genoa
1950 AS Roma
1951-1952 FC Chiasso
1954-1955 US Palermo
1957-1958 Sampdoria Genoa
1962 FC Chiasso
1 Only league games are given.

Adolfo “Balon” Baloncieri (born July 27, 1897 in Castelceriolo d'Alessandria , † July 23, 1986 in Alessandria ) was an Italian football player and coach .

The center forward is still one of the most successful goal scorers in the Italian national team .

Player career

In the club

Adolfo Baloncieri began his career with his hometown club US Alessandria Calcio in the 1919 season, the first season after the end of the First World War . In the Piedmontese he played in a team with the national player Carlo Carcano , who later led to five championship titles as coach Juventus Turin .

In the first season the club failed in the semi-finals of the Northern League, in the following year, after a play-off against FC Modena, they were promoted to the final round of the Northern League, where the team finally failed at the eventual champions US Pro Vercelli . In the following years, Alessandria was one of the stronger teams in Northern Italy - not least because of Baloncieri's goals - but it was no longer enough to qualify for the final.

In 1925 Baloncieri left his hometown club and played for Turin from then on . In his first season he was the club's most successful goalscorer, who narrowly failed in the group stage at FC Bologna . In the next year, the storm series around Baloncieri, Julio Libonatti and Gino Rossetti ensured victories in the group phase as well as in the final tournament. The championship title was stripped of Turin, however, because club officials had made the Juventus player Luigi Allemandi a bribe. In the following season, the Turin team managed to win the final tournament again and thus the first championship title in the club's history.

Turin also reached the final of the Italian championship in 1929 , but had to admit defeat to Bologna FC in the decider. In the then introduced uniform Serie A, the team was able to place itself in the upper half of the table, but the title could no longer be achieved, and Baloncieri's number of goals steadily declined.

In 1932 he moved to Comense , but ended his active career soon after. In total, he played 316 championship games and scored 169 goals.

In the national team

Baloncieri made his national team debut in May 1920 against the Netherlands . Immediately afterwards he was in the Italian team that took part in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , where he was used in three games and scored a goal against Egypt .

He was part of the national team's main formation during the 1920s and also took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics (three games, one goal) and 1928 (five games, six goals, winning the bronze medal ).

He was also used in five games in the first-ever European Cup of the national soccer teams from 1927 to 1930 and led the Italian team to win the cup as captain.

In total, Baloncieri played 47 games in the national team (including 28 as captain) and scored 25 goals, which means a place among the ten most successful goal scorers of the Squadra Azzura to this day. When he ended his career in the national team in 1930, he was both a record player and a record scorer. In 1927 he scored the hundredth goal in the history of the Italian national team against Switzerland.

Coaching career

Already in his last active season 1931/32 with AC Turin, he took over the training of the team together with Giuseppe Aliberti . He was also a coach at Comenese and remained so after the end of his active career until 1934.

In 1934 he took over the coaching position at AC Milan , with which he did not get beyond places in midfield in two seasons and was replaced in the course of the third season. This was followed by coaching positions at Novara Calcio and AC Liguria . In the 1939/40 season he coached the SSC Napoli , but was soon replaced by Antonio Vojak . He then returned to his hometown and looked after Alessandria, where he set up himself again at the age of 47 as part of the war championship.

After the end of the war he took over AC Milan again for one season before he became a coach at FC Chiasso in Switzerland in 1946 . A year later he moved to Sampdoria Genua , which he was in charge of until 1950, when the best placement was a fifth place. He then signed with AS Roma , but was replaced after a few months.

Other coaching stations were FC Chiasso and US Palermo two more times .

successes

As a player

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One source speaks of a debut in March 1915.
personal data
SURNAME Baloncieri, Adolfo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baloncieri, Balon (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelceriolo d'Alessandria
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1986
Place of death Alessandria