Emiliano Mondonico

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Emiliano Mondonico
Personnel
birthday March 9, 1947
place of birth Rivolta d'Adda ,  Italy
date of death 29th March 2018
Place of death Milan ,  Italy
size 175 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1968 US Cremonese 46 (19)
1968-1970 AC Turin 14 0(2)
1970-1971 AC Monza 23 0(7)
1971-1972 Atalanta Bergamo 2 0(0)
1972-1979 US Cremonese 178 (69)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1981-1986 US Cremonese
1986-1987 Como Calcio
1987-1990 Atalanta Bergamo
1990-1994 Torino Calcio
1994-1998 Atalanta Bergamo
1998-2000 Torino Calcio
2000-2001 SSC Naples
2001-2003 Cosenza Calcio
2003-2004 AC Florence
2006-2007 UC AlbinoLeffe
2007-2009 US Cremonese
2009-2011 UC AlbinoLeffe
2012 Novara Calcio
1 Only league games are given.

Emiliano Mondonico (born March 9, 1947 in Rivolta d'Adda , † March 29, 2018 in Milan ) was an Italian football player and coach . As an active player most of the time at US Cremonese , he was also very successful as a coach with the club and led it to Serie A for the first time . Mondonico also coached Atalanta Bergamo and FC Turin, among others . With the latter club he became the Italian cup winner.

Player career

Emiliano Mondonico, born on March 9, 1947 in Rivolta d'Adda in northern Italy in the province of Cremona in Lombardy , initially started playing football at a local club, but soon moved to the youth department of US Cremonese . At this club Mondonico made his debut in the first team in 1966 and only played until 1968 for the club with which he made the promotion from the fourth-class Serie D to the third-class Serie C in his last year . After that, Emiliano Mondonico changed after 46 league games and nineteen goals for Cremonese the club and joined the AC Turin , where he was hardly used in two years, made just fourteen league games and moved to AC Monza in 1970 . Here the midfielder was a regular in Serie B , made 23 league games with seven goals and helped Monza to stay in the second Italian football league.

After a season in Monza, Emiliano Mondonico joined the first division club Atalanta Bergamo , where, however, like before at Torino, he hardly got any playing time and so only came to two league games in the Serie A in 1971/72 . After a year, Mondonico left Bergamo and returned to US Cremonese, where he eventually spent the rest of his playing career. With Cremonese he made promotion to Serie B in the 1976/77 season, and in the following years also managed to establish himself in the second division. Emiliano Mondonico played for US Cremonese until 1979 and made 178 league games in this second period of club membership, in which he scored 69 goals. After retiring at the age of 32, Mondonico moved to the coaching staff of US Cremonese and helped the club to return to Serie A a little later after more than half a century.

Coaching career

After two years as coach of the youth of US Cremonese, Emiliano Mondonico replaced Guido Vincenzi as coach of the club's first team in the summer of 1981 , with the two still forming a duo on the sidelines for a few months. In the next five years Mondonico was responsible for the sporting successes of the US Cremonese and led the club through a first place in Serie B in 1983/84 in the Serie A . This meant the return of US Cremonese to the highest Italian league, after having only been represented there in the premiere season 1929/30 to date . As a promoted Cremonese could not hold under Mondonico in Serie A, with fifteenth place the direct relegation took place. When the targeted return to excellence failed the following year, the collaboration between Emiliano Mondonico and US Cremonese ended after the coach had previously worked as a player and coach in Cremona for fourteen years .

After a one-year interlude at Como Calcio , with which he was ninth in Serie A 1986/87 , Mondonico took over the coaching position at Atalanta Bergamo in 1987 . In Bergamo he worked quite successfully for three years, led the club that had just been relegated from Serie A back to the first division and was also able to get into the European Cup as a climber. Also in the 1989/90 season , the second first division year with Atalanta Bergamo, Mondonico managed to promote the UEFA Cup , which made it increasingly interesting for larger clubs. In the summer of 1990 he then succeeded Eugenio Fascetti at first division promoted Torino Calcio , where he was once active as a player. In Turin , Emiliano Mondonico managed to establish the traditional club in the upper reaches of Serie A and also to cause a stir in Europe. During the early nineties were resistant in Serie A achieved placings in the top third of the table, was achieved in the 1991/92 season , the final of the UEFA Cup after previously such as Teams Boavista Porto , AEK Athens or the star ensemble of Real Madrid had turned . In the final, Mondonico's team, which included players such as Enzo Scifo , Walter Casagrande and Rafael Martín Vázquez , faced Ajax Amsterdam from the Netherlands . After a 2-2 draw in the first leg in Turin, the goalless draw in the second leg in Amsterdam was not enough to secure the title, as Ajax were ahead due to the away goals rule. A year later it worked with a title win for the Torino Calcio from Emiliano Mondonico. In the Coppa Italia 1992/93 they reached the final against AS Roma and prevailed here with 3: 0 and 2: 5 with the help of the away goals rule, which had prevented the European Cup triumph a year earlier.

Emiliano Mondonico coached Torino Calcio until the summer of 1994. He then returned to the coaching bench at Atalanta Bergamo and managed to return to Serie A with the club in his first year. In the following two years, Mondonico established Atalanta in the first division, but had to be relegated to in the 1997/98 season accept the series B. After relegation, the paths of Emiliano Mondonico and Atalanta Bergamo parted again, he took over Torino Calcio again, succeeding Edoardo Reja . Mondonico led Torino back as the first in Serie B in 1998/99 , but missed relegation due to a fifteenth place in Serie A in 1999/2000 as a promoted team. After relegation Mondonico had to go to Turin, he took over as the successor to the Czech offensive guru Zdeněk Zeman at the beginning of the next season as the coach of the financially troubled former champions SSC Napoli . Once again, however, Mondonico rose with his team at the end of the season in Serie B.

2001 to 2003 Emiliano Mondonico was then twice briefly coach at the second division Cosenza Calcio . In Serie B 2003/04 he took over the position of head coach at Fiorentina during the season and achieved promotion to Serie A with the two-time champions. At the beginning of the coming first division season, however, things went less well for Fiorentina and Mondonico had to take his post vacate Sergio Buso after just seven matchdays .

After his release in Florence , Emiliano Mondonico was without a job as a coach for two years. During this time he worked a lot for television, especially as an expert on live broadcasts. Before the 2006/07 season Mondonico returned to the dugout and looked after the second division UC AlbinoLeffe for a year . He then returned to Cremona after 21 years and coached US Cremonese again for two years, which had meanwhile slipped into the C1 series . In two years at Cremonese, Mondonico missed the return to the second class in both cases, the working paper ended in summer 2009. The coach spent the next two years again at UC AlbinoLeffe outside Bergamo, but had to be there at the beginning of 2011 due to cancer break up. Recovered, Mondonico took over from Attilio Tesser about a year later at the first division club Novara Calcio , which was at risk of relegation , but was soon replaced by his own predecessor.

successes

As a player

1976/77 with US Cremonese
1967/68 with US Cremonese

As a trainer

1991 with Torino Calcio
1992/93 with Torino Calcio
  • Promotion to Serie A: 5 ×
1983/84 with US Cremonese
1987/88 and 1994/95 with Atalanta Bergamo
1998/99 with Torino Calcio
2003/04 with Fiorentina

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personal data
SURNAME Mondonico, Emiliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Rivolta d'Adda , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 29th March 2018
Place of death Milan