Alberto Bigon

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Alberto Bigon
Personnel
birthday October 31, 1947
place of birth Padua ,  Italy
size 180 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1962-1964 AC Padova
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1967 AC Padova 64 (14)
1967 SSC Naples 0 0(0)
1967-1969 SPAL Ferrara 49 (10)
1969-1971 US Foggia 65 (18)
1971-1980 AC Milan 218 (56)
1980-1982 Lazio Rome 57 (12)
1982-1984 Lanerossi Vicenza 57 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1986 Unione Conegliano
1986-1987 Reggina Calcio
1987-1989 AC Cesena
1989-1991 SSC Naples
1991-1992 US Lecce
1992-1993 Udinese Calcio
1995 Ascoli Calcio
1996-1997 FC Sion
1997-1998 AC Perugia
1999-2000 Olympiacos Piraeus
2007 FC Sion
2008 Interblock Ljubljana
1 Only league games are given.

Alberto "Albertino" Bigon (born October 31, 1947 in Padua ) is a former Italian football player and later coach . As an active player, he played for most of his career for AC Milan , with whom he became Italian champion and European Cup winner. Bigon worked as a coach for SSC Napoli , with which he won the Scudetto in 1990 and was also victorious in the Supercoppa Italiana the year after . Also for AC Cesena , Udinese Calcio and the Swiss club FC Sion .

Player career

Alberto Bigon began playing football in 1964 at Calcio Padova in his hometown of Padua in northern Italy. At Padova he played in the second-rate Serie B for the next three years until 1967 . During this time he made a total of 64 league games for the club, with the midfielder getting fourteen hits. In the summer of 1967 Bigon Calcio left Padova and joined the SSC Napoli , where he did not really get a chance and was sold to SPAL Ferrara just a few months later in November 1967 . In the SPAL jersey, Bigon made fourteen appearances in the 1967/68 season , but could not prevent the club's relegation. In the following season in Serie B he was part of the team from SPAL Ferrara, which made the direct march from the first to the third division, an occurrence from which the Lombard club has not yet fully recovered.

For the 1969/70 season Alberto Bigon changed clubs again and played for US Foggia . With the southern Italians, he made it to Serie A in his first season, after finishing second behind FC Varese and ahead of Catania Calcio in the second-highest league . After promotion to Serie A, Foggia could not really establish itself in this and had to accept relegation again after one season, which also did not change the involvement of Alberto Bigon, who completed 28 of thirty possible league games in the 1970/71 season . After relegation with Foggia, Alberto Bigon's contract was not extended and he went to Lombardy for AC Milan .

At AC Milan, Alberto Bigon was able to assert himself in his position despite great competition and became a regular player. In a team with players like Gianni Rivera , Angelo Anquilletti or Roberto Rosato , Bigon and Milan won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1972/73 season with a 1-0 final victory against English representative Leeds United in Thessaloniki, Greece , after Legia, among others Warsaw , Spartak Moscow and Sparta Prague were defeated. Bigon also won the Coppa Italia , the Italian soccer cup, three times as a player at AC Milan in 1972, 1973 and 1977 . Two years after the last cup win, Alberto Bigon was able to celebrate his greatest success as Rossoneri when they took first place in Serie A in 1978/79 with three points ahead of the surprise runner-up AC Perugia and for the first time since 1968 they became Italian champions crowned. But AC Milan's success did not last long. The reigning champions were forced to relegate to Serie B in 1980 after the club was involved in the Totonero scandal, the first major Italian soccer competition. Also relegated was Lazio Rome , which was considered the main suspect in this scandal.

Alberto Bigon moved to the same club for the 1980/81 season in order to create direct resurgence. In contrast to his old club AC Milan, the Totonero scandal for Lazio Rome meant that the club was to be found in Serie B or in the lower regions of Serie A for almost the entire 1980s. Alberto Bigon played here until 1982 for Lazio Rome and could not achieve promotion until then. For the 1982/83 season he joined the former runner-up Lanerossi Vicenza , who had now slipped into the third division , where he completed another 57 league games by 1984 and twice missed the leap into the second division relatively narrowly. After the end of the 1983/84 season, Alberto Bigon's career as an active soccer player came to an end at the age of 39. In the same year he began his career as a football coach.

Coaching career

Beginning with Conegliano, Reggina and Cesena

Immediately after the end of his career as an active football player, Alberto Bigon was coach of the lower class club Union Conegliano San Vendemiano, a fifth division club, before the 1984/85 season. He supervised this for two years and achieved relegation in both seasons in the Campionato Interregional, as today's Serie D was called from 1981 to 1992. During this work the scouts of the third division club Reggina Calcio became aware of Alberto Bigon and he received an offer from the southern Italians. For the 1986/87 season Bigon was then the coach of Reggina Calcio and achieved with the club - he was the first coach after a re-establishment in the summer of 1986 - an acceptable seventh place in the C1 series .

After the end of the 1986/87 season, Alberto Bigon was the new coach at AC Cesena . The year before, Cesena had returned to the first class as third in the table in Serie B after winning promotion playoffs against US Lecce and US Cremonese after the club had previously been in second class for four seasons. After promotion, Cesena was able to establish itself immediately in Serie A and reached ninth place in the table under coach Alberto Bigon in the 1987/88 season , which resulted in safe relegation. Cesena knew how to convince against very good opponents, they played against Juventus Turin , against Inter Milan and against AC Milan and defeated both Hellas Verona , champions from 1985, and Sampdoria Genoa . Over the entire season, Alberto Bigon's team suffered only two home defeats. The games against SSC Napoli and Pescara Calcio ended 0: 1 . Away, however, the record of the newcomer was much worse, there were only two wins - tellingly against Juventus Turin and Hellas Verona. In the following season, a similar picture emerged, when Cesena could not make a single away game victorious and took all eight wins of the season at the home stadium Dino Manuzzi , but in the end still held the class with thirteenth place.

Successful time at SSC Napoli

Under coach Ottavio Bianchi , SSC Napoli had the most successful period in the club's history in the second half of the eighties. Il Napoli di Maradona , as the team around game designer and audience favorite Diego Maradona , the Brazilian Careca and the Italian attacker Andrea Carnevale were called, won the Scudetto under Bianchi in 1987 for the first time in the club's history . Two years later, the UEFA Cup was also won in the metropolis at the foot of Mount Vesuvius after the German representative VfB Stuttgart was defeated in the final . After winning the UEFA Cup, Ottavio Bianchi's era ended in Naples , he was replaced by Alberto Bigon. The team of SSC Napoli was also very successful under the new head coach and they won Serie A in Bigon's first season as Napoli coach. The 1989/90 season was in first place with two points ahead of AC Milan ended. A little later, the SSC had a spectacular 5-1 win against cup winners Juventus Turin at their home stadium in San Paolo , which enabled the team to win the Italian Super Cup on September 1st, 1990 .

The 1989/90 season was the climax of the successful period of SSC Napoli, after which the club went steadily downhill. While they only finished eighth in Serie A in 1990/91 , the undisputed star of the team, Diego Maradona, had to flee Naples on March 17, 1991 after a league game against Sampdoria Genoa due to drug problems and evidence of cocaine use in order to receive a punishment escape. After Maradona's departure it became known that SSC Napoli was in severe financial difficulties, which subsequently led to a severe deterioration in the economic and sporting situation. Finally, in 1998, the club had to relegate to Serie B. After a few more years, the bankruptcy of SSC Napoli followed in 2004, as well as the re-establishment and purchase by the film director Aurelio De Laurentiis , who was able to lead Napoli back into the upper ranges of Serie A.

Alberto Bigon did not experience any of this as coach of SSC Napoli. He left the Campanians after the unsuccessful 1990/91 season to join the US Lecce , also from the south of Italy. He was replaced in Naples by Claudio Ranieri , who later became a successful coach in Florence , Valencia and at Chelsea FC , but in Naples without any notable successes.

Work in Lecce, Udine and Ascoli Piceno

In the summer of 1991 Alberto Bigon took over the coaching position at the second division US Lecce. He looked after this club for a year, which had already played first-class a number of times in the previous years. The 1991/92 season in Serie B completed Alberto Bigon's team only on a disappointing tenth place in the table, which did not meet the demands of the club management. Promotion to the Serie A managed, however, Brescia , Pescara Calcio , Ancona Calcio and Udinese Calcio .

Alberto Bigon moved to the same club in 1992, becoming the successor to promotion coach Franco Scoglio , who had gone to AS Lucchese Libertas . As coach of Udinese, Alberto Bigon worked quite successfully and managed to stay up in Serie A in 1992/93 . It was occupied the fourteenth place, tied with the first two relegated Brescia Calcio and Fiorentina . Only the goal difference better than Brescia by two goals saved Udinese. Despite the successful relegation, Alberto Bigon left Udinese Calcio after the end of the 1992/93 season. He was unemployed for two years as a result. In the spring of 1995 he received an offer from Ascoli Calcio , who had found themselves in the second-rate Serie B in acute danger of relegation and had dismissed coach Angelo Orazi. But even under Alberto Bigon there was no increase in performance, this was replaced by Mario Colautti, the fourth coach of Ascoli Piceno this season, who could no longer prevent relegation to Serie C1.

Coach in Switzerland and return to Italy

In the summer of 1996 it was announced that Alberto Bigon would be the new coach of the Swiss first division club FC Sion . In Sion he worked just as successfully as he once did at SSC Napoli and was able to achieve this in the 1996/97 season with the relatively small club, which in its previous club history had only won the Swiss football championship once in 1992 . In National League A , Alberto Bigon's team took first place after the end of the National League A final round for the championship with three points ahead of Neuchâtel Xamax , after having been at the end of the regular season, i.e. after the 22 match days of National League A. , still ranked three to seven points behind Neuchâtel . The FC Sion team also played very successfully in the Swiss Cup in the 1996/97 season. Alberto Bigon's team won the final against FC Luzern 5-4 on penalties after a 3-3 draw at the end of regular time. In the previous two years, FC Sion had won the Swiss Cup, which meant that the club also took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1996/97 season . Here the team reached the second round, where they lost and eliminated at the English representative FC Liverpool with 1: 2 at their home Stade de Tourbillon and 3: 6 at Anfield Road .

With the many successes that Alberto Bigon achieved as coach of FC Sion, he also became more interesting for clubs from his Italian homeland. In September 1997 he got an offer from AC Perugia , a traditional Umbrian club that was in the second-rate Serie B in the 1997/98 season. He helped AC Perugia move up to Serie A, even though he was dismissed during the season after a series of poor results and replaced by Ilario Castagner , who completed the promotion with Perugia after winning the playoffs against Torino Calcio .

Piraeus, Sion and Interblock Ljubljana

A year and a half after his release in Perugia , Alberto Bigon took over as coach at Olympiacos in Greece in November 1999 . However, he did not work for the Greek record champions for very long and was released from his duties on April 10th, 2000 and replaced by Ioannis Matzourakis. The dismissal of Alberto Bigon came as a surprise to many viewers, as Olympiacos under his direction was ranked first in the Greek league with one point ahead of Panathinaikos Athens . His successor got all 24 possible points in the remaining eight league games and led the team to the championship.

In the following seven years, Alberto Bigon did not practice the profession of football coach. It was only in February 2007 that he returned to the sidelines and took over as coach at FC Sion, succeeding Pierre-Albert Chapuisat . Bigon helped FC Sion to reach third place in the Swiss Super League, which meant promotion for the UEFA Cup . In the following season, Alberto Bigon could no longer meet the expectations of club president Christian Constantin , who had dismissed Bigon on his first engagement in Sion despite winning the double, and was resigned from his duties as coach of the first team of FC Sion on December 13, 2007 delivered. Bigon's successor was Charly Roessli from Switzerland.

Alberto Bigon's last employer to date as a coach was the Slovenian first division club Interblock Ljubljana , who signed Bigon in August 2008. But the Italian's working hours in Ljubljana were only a few months; he resigned in September of the same year due to differences with the board of directors regarding personnel policy. Then he retired into private life and did not take over any other clubs from coaches.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

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Commons : Alberto Bigon  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Bigon, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bigon, Albertino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua , Italy