Alfredo Foni

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Alfredo Foni
Alfredo Foni (approx. 1930s – 40s) .jpg
Alfredo Foni
Personnel
birthday January 20, 1911
place of birth Udine ,  Italy
date of death January 28, 1985
Place of death Lugano ,  Switzerland
size 172 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1927-1929 Udinese Calcio
1929-1931 Lazio Rome 38 0(3)
1931-1934 Calcio Padova 94 (20)
1934-1947 Juventus Turin 266 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1936-1942 Italy 23 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1947-1948 AC Venice
1949-1950 AS Casale FBC
1950-1951 AC Pavia
1951-1952 Sampdoria Genoa
1952-1955 Inter Milan
1954-1958 Italy
1958-1959 Bologna FC
1959-1961 AS Roma
1961–1962 Udinese Calcio
1963 AS Roma
1964-1967 Switzerland
1968-1969 Inter Milan
1970-1971 AC Bellinzona
1972-1973 Mantova FC
1973-1974 FC Lugano
1976-1977 FC Lugano
1 Only league games are given.

Alfredo Foni (born January 20, 1911 in Udine , Kingdom of Italy , † January 28, 1985 in Lugano , Switzerland ) was an Italian football player and coach . As an active player, he became Olympic champion in 1936 and world champion in 1938 with the “Squadra Azzurra” . After his active career he worked as a trainer and trained a. a. the Italian and Swiss national teams.

Career

Player, 1924-1944

With Juventus Turin , the defender Alfredo Foni celebrated in the years 1931 to 1935 winning the championship title five times in a row ( Quinquennio d'Oro ) in the national league Serie A in Italy, which had existed since the 1929/30 round . In the cup he saw the triumph of victory in 1938 and 1942 . With his club colleague Pietro Rava , he formed the best defensive pair in the Italian league for years. Foni made his debut in the national team at the 1936 Olympic football tournament in Berlin . On August 3, 1936, in a 1-0 win over the USA, Vittorio Pozzo , the coach of the 1934 world championship team , sent him out onto the field for the first time in the national team. On August 15 he also defended in the victorious 2-1 game after extra time against Austria and thus became a member of the team of the Olympic champion. It was his fourth international match. At the Soccer World Cup in France in 1938 , he was in the games against France, Brazil and in the final on June 19 against Hungary in the 4-2 success in use. At the side of the superstars Giuseppe Meazza and Silvio Piola , he celebrated Italy's title defense. He also competed against the German national football team twice . The teams of Otto Nerz (March 26, 1933 in Florence) and Sepp Herberger (May 5, 1940 in Milan) were defeated with 3-2 goals each . With the game on April 19, 1942 in Milan against Spain, with a 4-0 victory, Alfredo Foni ended his career full of titles after 23 appearances in the national team. At Juventus Turin he was active for two more years.

Trainer

By 1954 he had completed the stations AC Venice , FC Chiasso , Sampdoria Genoa , FC Bologna , AS Roma and Inter Milan as a club coach. With Inter he won the "Scudetto", the championship, twice in 1953 and 1954 . The Swedish international striker Lennart Skoglund was the driving force in his successful team. After the elimination against Switzerland at the soccer world championship in 1954 already in the group games (play-off on June 23, 1954 lost with 1: 4 goals) Foni took over the coaching position with the 2-0 victory on December 5, 1954 in Rome against Argentina the "Squadra Azzura". But he failed to qualify for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. On January 15, 1958, Foni and his team lost the decisive game in Belfast with 1: 2 goals against Northern Ireland. Even the use of the "Oriundi" Juan Schiaffino and Alcides Ghiggia , both members of the Uruguayan 1950 world championship team, did not bring the necessary away win against the Northern Irish. The class of Harry Gregg in goal, Danny Blanchflower and Jimmy McIlroy in midfield and the dangerous left winger Peter McParland was more topical and enabled the island team to play a good World Cup tournament in Sweden in June 1958. In 1955, Alfredo Foni scored two 2-1 wins against the German national team. On March 30, 1955 in Stuttgart and on December 18 in Rome. With the 2-3 defeat on March 23, 1958 in Vienna against Austria, the coaching chapter of the "Squadra Azzura" ended. Foni began his second job as national coach in 1964 in Switzerland. After successfully qualifying for the football World Cup in England in 1966 , the tournament brought the Confederates in Sheffield three defeats to Germany, Spain and Argentina and thus the trip home after the group games. Since the next four games against Belgium, Romania, Mexico and Czechoslovakia only resulted in defeats and thus the qualification for the European Football Championship 1968 was endangered, the former Swiss national goalkeeper Erwin Ballabio replaced Alfredo Foni in May 1967. The team could still not qualify.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

swell

  • Football Lexicon, Copress Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7679-0829-8
  • The Great European Football Book, Volumes 1 and 2, Nuttelmann, Jade, 1999, ISBN 3-930814-02-1
  • Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X .
  • The Stars of Sports from A – Z, Carl Habel, 1970, Book No. 3036 0980

Web links

Commons : Alfredo Foni  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfredo Foni in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Foni, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Udine , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1985
Place of death Lugano , Switzerland