Ardico Magnini

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Ardico Magnini
Personnel
birthday October 21, 1928
place of birth Pistoia ,  Italy
date of death 3rd July 2020
Place of death Florence ,  Italy
size 178 cm
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
US Pistoiese
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1950 US Pistoiese 78 (13)
1950-1958 AC Florence 225 0(8)
1958-1960 CFC genoa 26 0(2)
1960-1961 AC Prato 21 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1957 Italy 20 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ardico Magnini (born October 21, 1928 in Pistoia , Tuscany , Italy , † July 3, 2020 in Florence ) was an Italian football player . He took part in the 1954 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

biography

Club career

Ardico Magnini started his football career in his hometown Pistoia, where he played for the US Pistoiese as a youth . In 1957 he was accepted into the professional team that was playing in Serie B at the time. At Pistoiese he initially acted as a midfielder, but that should change two years later after he had left the now third-rate US Pistoiese and moved to Fiorentina . In Florence he played the position of defender and experienced his most successful period there. On January 21, 1951, he made his debut in a 2-0 win against SSC Napoli and scored his first goal in Serie A a little later on June 17 against Udinese Calcio . With AC he always played for the championship and was able to win it for the first time in the 1955/56 season under coach Fulvio Bernardini . In the following season he therefore played with Florence in the European Cup and was able to reach the final with the team, which was lost to Real Madrid . In 1958 he finally achieved his last success with Florence, reaching the finals of the Coppa Italia . He left Florence in the same year and played for two years with CFC Genoa in Serie A and even relegated to Serie B in his last season with the club. Then Magnini left the club and switched to Serie B promoted, AC Prato and ended his career there after one season.

National team

Magnini played a total of 20 games for the Italian national soccer team and was in the squad for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . Before that, it had already been used in qualifying . At the World Cup itself, he was used twice and scored no goal. He made his debut on April 26, 1953 against Czechoslovakia .

Private life

After the end of his career, Ardico Magnini ran a bar in the center of Florence together with his wife Anna until 2010 .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.lanazione.it/sport/calcio/ardico-magnini-fiorentina-morto-1.5286434/amp
personal data
SURNAME Magnini, Ardico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Pistoia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2020
Place of death Florence , Italy