Ettore Puricelli

Ettore Puricelli
Puricelli 1941
Personnel
Surname	Héctor Puricelli
birthday	September 15, 1916
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death	May 14, 2001
Place of death	Rome ,  Italy
size	180 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Liverpool Montevideo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1933-1937	Central
1938	River Plate Montevideo
1938-1944	Bologna FC	139 (86)
1945-1949	AC Milan	116 (55)
1949-1951	AC Legnano	38 (25)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1939	Italy	1 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1954-1956	AC Milan
1956-1957	US Palermo
1959-1960	FC Porto
1960-1961	Salernitana Calcio
1961-1965	FC Varese
1965-1966	Atalanta Bergamo
1966-1967	US Alessandria
1967-1968	US Cagliari
1968-1971	Lanerossi Vicenza
1971-1972	US Foggia
1972-1975	Lanerossi Vicenza
1975-1976	Football Brindisi
1976-1988	US Foggia
1978-1979	CFC genoa
1980-1982	US Foggia
1983-1984	US Foggia
1 Only league games are given.

Héctor "Ettore" Puricelli (born September 15, 1916 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † May 14, 2001 in Rome , Italy ) was a Uruguayan-Italian football player and coach who played an international match for the Italian national football team .

Player career

Beginnings in Uruguay

Héctor Puricelli was born on September 15, 1916 in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo . In his youth he played for Liverpool Montevideo . After he had gone through the youth departments at the club, he was taken in 1933 by another capital club, Central , under contract. At Central he played football until 1937, moving to River Plate Montevideo within Montevideo in 1938 , before he was committed to the Italian first division club Bologna for the 1938/39 season .

Working in Italy

In 1938, Héctor Puricelli was signed by the Serie A club FC Bologna. In his first season, Puricelli was able to convince in the jersey of Bologna and helped his team to win the Italian football championship by winning first place in Serie A 1938/39 with four points ahead of AC Turin . Together with Aldo Boffi from AC Milan , the native Uruguayan also won the trophy for the best league shooter. In the following season Puricelli, who got the nickname " Ettore " during his time in Italy, aimed to defend his title, but this did not succeed. It was enough in the 1939/40 season only to second place for FC Bologna, while Ambrosiana-Inter won the championship. 1940/41 succeeded then the victory in the Serie A . Puricelli was also able to record his own success, with 22 goals this season he was the top scorer in Serie A. This league success with FC Bologna in 1941 was the last championship title for the club until 1964 . Puricelli played in Bologna until 1944 and was one of the club's top scorers for years. FC Bologna ended the two seasons before the game was interrupted due to the Second World War, each on a midfield place. In 1941/42 they were seventh when AS Roma won the title , Puricelli scored fourteen goals this season, and in 1942/43 Bologna was sixth in the first championship title of AC Torino's Grande Torino , Puricelli this time less than ten goals this season. After the 1942/43 season, the game ended for the time being and Ettore Puricelli had made 139 league games with 86 goals for Bologna to date.

After gaming operations in Italy were resumed in 1945 after the end of the Second World War, Ettore Puricelli joined AC Milan from the fashion capital of the same name in northern Italy. In the Serie A Alta Italia of the 1945/46 season he reached fourth place with Milan, which entitled to participate in the final round of the championship, which finally won the AC Turin. Puricelli scored eleven goals for AC Milan in the first season after the war. The Serie A 1946/47 he finished with Milan in fourth place in the table and was second best goalscorer with 21 goals this season, only behind Valentino Mazzola from the renewed champions AC Turin. Puricelli scored 17 goals in the following season, he achieved second place with AC Milan behind the Grande Torino, who continued to dominate Italian football. In 1949, the dominance of AC Turin came to an abrupt end. When Superga air disaster the entire team, including supervisors died. For the 1948/49 season , however, this tragedy had no effect, as the season was almost over at the time of the crash and AC Turin nevertheless became champions, AC Milan and Puricelli came third.

After the end of the 1948/49 season Ettore Puricelli left AC Milan and joined AC Legnano in Serie B , the second highest Italian football league. For Legnano he made a total of 38 league games and scored 25 goals. The 1949/50 season he finished with Legnano in third place in the second division and missed promotion only by three points, which the runner-up Udinese Calcio was better. A year later, the promotion was achieved by a second place behind SPAL Ferrara and seven points ahead of third-placed FC Modena . After the successful jump into Serie A, Ettore Puricelli ended his active career.

National team

Some time after starting his time at FC Bologna, Héctor Puricelli received Italian citizenship and was henceforth eligible to play for the Italian national football team . He had never played an international match for his home country Uruguay. Instead, he made his debut on November 12, 1939 for the Italian national soccer team in the international match in Zurich against Switzerland , which the team of world champion coach Vittorio Pozzo lost 3-1. Puricelli was the only goalscorer for the Italian team. After that he did not play any more internationals.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, Ettore Puricelli became a football coach. He took over his first coaching position in 1954 at the age of 38 at AC Milan. In his first season as coach of Milan, he led the team around stars such as the Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl , his Uruguayan counterpart Juan Schiaffino and defender Cesare Maldini to win the Italian football championship. In the Serie A 1954/55 a first place was occupied with four points ahead of Udinese Calcio . The 1955/56 season had the goal of defending the title for Puricelli and AC Milan. The project failed due to a second place in the table behind the ACF Fiorentina and the coach had to give up his job and was replaced by Giuseppe Viani .

For the 1956/57 season Ettore Puricelli took over the coaching position at Serie A promoted US Palermo . In Sicily , however, he did not have nearly as much success as at AC Milan and the season ended for Palermo with relegation from the first division after they were bottom of the table with only 22 points. Puricelli's time with US Palermo ended during the 1956/57 season. After two years without work, he went to Portugal in 1959 and was a year coach of FC Porto , with whom he had no great success and missed a title win.

After a brief interlude at Salernitana Calcio in the provincial town of the same name in Campania , Puricelli was coach of FC Varese , a northern Italian club in the third-tier Serie C in 1961 . After he was fifth with Varese in the first year, he was promoted to Serie B in 1963 by first place in Girona A with three points ahead of Novara Calcio . The FC Varese team was also very successful in Serie B and, after reaching first place in the table after all match days, managed to move up to Serie A, together with US Cagliari and US Foggia , both of which, like Varese, were in for the first time Italy's elite league rose. As a climber, Ettore Puricelli landed with FC Varese in Serie A in 1964/65 on a good eleventh place in the table and thus managed to stay in the league. For the 1965/66 season he went to league rivals Atalanta Bergamo , where he was dismissed during the season. In 1967/68 he coached the US Cagliari for a year, after having been responsible for the US Alessandria for a year . With Cagliari he managed to reach the Messestädte-Pokal 1968/69 by a ninth place in the table . However, he left Sardinia after a year.

In 1969 he took over the coaching position at Lanerossi Vicenza and kept it until 1971. With Vicenza he reached places in the midfield of Serie A. 1969/70 one was ninth and 1970/71 tenth. For the 1972/73 season Ettore Puricelli began a coaching position at the US Foggia, then active in Serie B, but did not make it up. After only one season he was again coach of Lanerossi Vicenza, managed to stay in the league twice with the club and finally rose to Serie B with Lanerossi in 1974/75 . After a year at the lower class club Football Brindisi , he returned to US Foggia in 1976 and led the club, which had just been promoted to Serie A, to relegation. In the following season, however, this failed and Foggia had to relegate. Puricelli, meanwhile, took over CFC Genoa in 1978 , which was relegated to Serie B with Foggia in 1977/78 , and missed promotion, whereupon he went back to Foggia and coached two more times in the second division.

successes

As a player

• Italian football championship : 1938/39 , 1940/41

• Serie A top scorer : 1938/39 (19 goals), 1940/41 (22 goals)

As a trainer

• Italian Football Championship : 1954/55
• Series B : 1963/64
• Series C : 1962/63
• Coupe Latine : 1956

Web links

• Ettore Puricelli in the database of the Enciclopedia del calcio (Italian)
• Player statistics (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ profile on www.playerhistory.com ( Memento of 5 October 2008 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 10 October 2012