Corrado Viciani

Corrado Viciani
Personnel
birthday	December 3, 1929
place of birth	Benghazi ,  Italian Libya
date of death	February 12, 2014
Place of death	Castiglion Fiorentino ,  Italy
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Castiglionese
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1948	Castiglionese
1948-1953	ACF Fiorentina	31 (1)
1953-1956	AC Como	70 (1)
1956-1958	CFC genoa	47 (0)
1958-1960	Tevere Rome	51 (0)
1960–1962	US Fermana	45 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960–1962	US Fermana
1962-1964	Sangiorgesis Calcio
1964-1965	Ravenna Calcio
1965-1967	AC Prato
1967-1969	Ternana Calcio
1969	Atalanta Bergamo
1970-1971	Taranto Calcio
1971-1973	Ternana Calcio
1973-1975	US Palermo
1976-1977	US Avellino
1977-1980	SS Cavese
1980-1981	Lanerossi Vicenza
1981-1983	Ternana Calcio
1983-1984	FC Civitanovese
1984-1985	SS Cavese
1985-1986	US Foggia
1987	FC Turris
1988	Ternana Calcio
1989-1990	AS Livorno
1990-1991	FC Turris
1 Only league games are given.

Corrado Viciani (born December 3, 1929 in Benghazi , Italian Libya , † February 12, 2014 in Castiglion Fiorentino , Italy ) was an Italian football player and later coach. Little appeared as a player, Viciani later coached a number of clubs in Italian football, including Ternana Calcio , US Palermo and US Avellino .

Player career

Corrado Viciani, born in 1929 in what was then to Italy belonging to Benghazi , today Libya , started playing football at the club Castiglionese. There he was discovered by the talent scouts of AC Florence , where Viciani was finally signed in the summer of 1948 at the age of nineteen. Corrado Viciani spent his next five years as an active football player in Florence , but never made the leap to permanent regulars. Still, Viciani was there when Fiorentina began to improve from a midfield team to championship contender. While the Fiorentina in Viciani's first season was still grappling deeply in the insignificance of Serie A , they got better and better in the following years and finally crowned this development with the championship in Serie A in 1955/56 .

At that time, Corrado Viciani but was no longer active in Florence, he joined in the summer of 1953 to AC Como in the series B . There the midfielder was active for three years and achieved placements in the upper third of the table of the second Italian football league in all three seasons, but the promotion to Serie A should not succeed. After 70 games and one goal for AC Como, Corrado Viciani changed club again in 1956 and from then on played for CFC Genoa in Serie A. With Genoa he just managed to stay one point ahead of the US in the 1956/57 season Triestina , the following year a midfield position was achieved.

In 1958 Corrado Viciani then went to the long since dissolved club Tevere Rome, where he spent the next two years and made 51 games during this time. After that, Viciani let his career fade from 1960 to 1962 for two years with US Fermana . In 1962 Corrado Viciani ended his footballing career at the age of 32 and then became a coach.

Coaching career

Corrado Viciani also worked as a coach during his two years as a player at US Fermana. After two seasons as player-coach in Fermana, he took over Sangiorgese Calcio for two years in 1962 , then Ravenna Calcio from 1964 to 1965 . From 1965 to 1967 Viciani was then responsible on the sidelines at third division AC Prato , with whom he narrowly failed twice in promotion to Serie B.

In the summer of 1967 Corrado Viciani started working as a trainer for Ternana Calcio . At this club, which he took over in the third division, Viciani experienced the most successful years of his coaching career. At the beginning he won Terni the Series C and thus led the club for the first time after twenty years back in the series as there has been achieved with the tenth safe league. Corrado Viciani then left Ternana Calcio for Atalanta Bergamo , but the club continued to develop over the next few years. Corrado Viciani failed terribly in Bergamo . After the club was deep in the basement in Serie B, Atalanta separated from Viciani and installed Renato Gei as his successor in December 1969 . Corrado Viciani tried himself from 1970 to 1971 at Taranto Calcio before returning to Ternana Calcio in 1971. In the Serie B 1971/72 Vicianis team finished first place with one point ahead of Lazio Rome and another before the third promoted US Palermo . Ternana Calcio's first ascent to the top floor of Italian football was thus certain. There, however, the team of coach Corrado Viciani lagged behind the rest of the league from the start, was able to achieve just three wins over the entire season and was clearly relegated from bottom of the table. After that, Corrado Viciani's second term of office at Ternana Calcio ended. But even after that, the coach should return to the sidelines of the Umbrian club two more times . However, these two terms of office - once from 1981 to 1983 and once briefly in 1988 - were not crowned by the success that Viciani had previously had in Terni. In all three cases, placements were only achieved in the lower areas of the C1 series .

For the 1973/74 season Viciani took over at the second division US Palermo, with whom he only managed a disappointing seventh place at league level with no less than 21 draws in one season. In the Coppa Italia , however , Palermo then triumphed and qualified first in the second group stage Group 2 ahead of Juventus Turin , AC Cesena and Lazio Rome for the final of the Coppa Italia 1973/74 , where they met FC Bologna . After the opening goal in the 32nd minute by Sergio Magistrelli, Bologna equalized in the final minute in the person of Giuseppe Savoldi , extra time remained goalless. So the penalty shoot-out had to decide the 1974 cup winners, where the favorite from Bologna prevailed 4-3. In the following year, the US Palermo then did better in the league and this time just missed the first division promotion against Hellas Verona .

In the middle of Serie B 1975/76 Corrado Viciani took over the coaching position at US Avellino and led the club to a midfield position. The following year you finished fifteenth. From 1977 to 1980 Viciani coached SS Cavese in the third division, then Lanerossi Vicenza for a year , but relegated to Serie C1 with the former Italian runner-up. Corrado Viciani disappeared more and more into lower-class football, apart from his other activities in Terni, perhaps his involvement with US Foggia or AS Livorno should be emphasized . In 1991 Corrado Viciani ended his coaching career at the age of 62.

successes

• Series B : 1 ×

1972/72 with Ternana Calcio

• Series C : 1 ×

1967/68 with Ternana Calcio

Web links

• Profile Vicianis
• Text about his playing career
• Obituary for Corrado Viciani