Eugenio Fascetti

Eugenio Fascetti
Personnel
birthday	October 23, 1938
place of birth	Viareggio ,  Italy
size	173 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1960	Bologna FC	35 0(2)
1960-1961	Juventus Turin	2 0(0)
1961-1966	FC Messina	87 (10)
1964-1965	→  Lazio Rome  (loan)	12 0(0)
1966-1968	FBC Savona	73 0(5)
1968-1969	SS Sambenedettese	2 0(1)
1969-1970	Esperia Viareggio	30 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973-1977	Fulgorcavi Latina
1979-1983	FC Varese
1983-1986	US Lecce
1986-1988	Lazio Rome
1988-1989	US Avellino
1989-1990	Torino Calcio
1990-1992	Hellas Verona
1993-1995	AS Lucchese Libertas
1995-2001	AS Bari
2001	Vicenza Calcio
2002	AC Florence
2002-2004	Como Calcio
1 Only league games are given.

Eugenio Fascetti (born October 23, 1938 in Viareggio ) is a former Italian football player and later coach . As an active champion with Juventus Turin , he later became a successful coach and led five teams to promotion to Serie A with US Lecce , Lazio Rome , Torino Calcio , Hellas Verona and AS Bari .

Player career

Eugenio Fascetti, born on October 23, 1938 in Viareggio , began his playing career at FC Bologna . From 1956 on, he slowly developed into a regular in the first team of the club, which in the then Serie A played. By his move in 1960, the young midfielder had made 35 games for his team and scored two goals. After a 1960/61 season with good performances, Fascetti was signed by Juventus Turin , but where he could not prevail. In one year at Juventus, he only made two appearances in the league without scoring. During this time, however, his greatest success as a football player falls. The Serie A 1960/61 ended Juventus Turin in first place with a lead of four points over AC Milan . Eugenio Fascetti became Italian football champions for the first and only time in his career both as a player and as a coach.

In the summer of 1961 Eugenio Fascetti left Juventus Turin again and joined FC Messina in Sicily . Here he played in the second-rate series B . In the 1962/63 season, coach Umberto Mannocci's team was in first place in the second division with two points ahead of AS Bari after the end of all game days and made the leap to first class for the first time in the club's history. There the league succeeded in the following year with place fourteen. For the 1964/65 season Eugenio Fascetti was awarded for one year to league rivals Lazio Rome , where he came to twelve missions and helped his team to place fourteen, while FC Messina had to relegate to Serie B after two years. After Messina returned Fascetti then back and played one more year for the southern Italian club in Serie B, the resurgence, however, was clearly missed.

From 1966 to 1968 Eugenio Fascetti then kicked for FBC Savona, initially in Serie B. In the first year, however, he rose with Savona in Serie C and then played third-rate for another year. After 73 league games and five goals, he worked for the SS Sambenedettese from 1968 to 1969 , where he was only used twice. The 31-year-old Fascetti let his career come to an end from 1969 to 1970 in his hometown at FC Esperia Viareggio .

Coaching career

After the end of his career as an active soccer player, Eugenio Fascetti became coach. His first position in high-class football was the position of coach at what was then FC Varese , whom he led back to Serie B in his first season in 1979/80 as Serie C1 champion . With fifteenth place and one point ahead of Lanerossi Vicenza , they also managed to stay in the league. The following year, FC Varese under Eugenio Fascetti even finished fifth in Serie B and missed the return to Serie A by just two points over SC Pisa .

Another year later, Fascetti left the northern Italian city and became the new trainer of the ambitious southern club US Lecce , also in Serie B. After the club had almost been relegated the year before, he quickly established himself in the top tier of the second division under the new coach took fourth place in the 1983/84 season, three points behind the first promoted US Cremonese . In the following year, the promotion goal could be realized and the US Lecce qualified second behind SC Pisa for the first time in the club's history for the top division in Italian football. Starting as an absolute outsider in the fight against relegation, US Lecce then only picked up sixteen points in Serie A in 1985/86 and was relegated directly from bottom of the table. After relegation, Eugenio Fascetti and US Lecce parted ways, Fascetti took over at Lazio Rome . The Laziali were stuck in one of the biggest crises in the club's history and ended the 1986/87 season, the first under Fascetti, in sixteenth place in Serie B, as a total of nine points were deducted due to the involvement in a manipulation scandal. Only the better goal difference compared to Campobasso Calcio prevented relegation to Serie C1. A year later, it not only went well for Lazio in terms of sport, they also ended the season without deducting points and at the end rose again to Serie A. Third place behind FC Bologna and Lecce was enough for this, Eugenio Fascetti resigned as coach of the capital city after promotion. After fourteen game days of Serie B in 1988/89 he was coach of first division relegated US Avellino , with whom he missed the direct promotion and had to go to the end of the season. In the summer of 1989 Eugenio Fascetti took over at Torino Calcio and thus again a relegated Serie A. As the sovereign champions of Serie B, he led the traditional club back to first class and thus achieved his third promotion to Serie A as a coach.

For the third time in a row, Eugenio Fascetti took over a first division relegated team in 1990. At the Italian champions from 1985, Hellas Verona , successful coach Osvaldo Bagnoli had resigned after relegation and the club management engaged Fascetti with the order of direct promotion. This succeeded as second in series B only behind Zdeněk Zemans US Foggia . It was less successful for Hellas Verona and Fascetti in Serie A, where they quickly found themselves in the relegation battle and had more and more bad cards there. After 25 matchdays, Eugenio Fascetti was sacked and replaced by the coaching team Mario Corso and Nils Liedholm , who could not prevent Hellas Verona from being relegated.

Fascetti then worked for AS Lucchese Libertas from 1993 to 1995 , albeit without causing a stir. In the summer of 1995, Fascetti returned to Serie A and became the new coach of AS Bari . With five points behind Piacenza Calcio , the team rose in the 1995/96 season from the first division, but Fascetti remained coach and filled this post until 2001. As a relegated Bari finished fourth in Serie B in 1996/97 and rose straight back to Serie A. There he managed to stay in league with eleventh place. In the following year, with rank ten, a position in the semi-secure midfield was achieved. After relegation could only just barely be prevented in 1999/2000 , the following year after four years of first class AS Bari was relegated to Serie B. With only twenty points in 38 games they were knocked off last. Eugenio Fascetti was sacked late in the season, but his successor Arcangelo Sciannimanico did not make any real improvement.

Together with AS Bari, Vicenza Calcio was also relegated from Serie A, where Eugenio Fascetti was the new trainer for the 2001/02 season . After eighteen match days, however, he was released again. His engagement at Fiorentina in 2002 was of a similarly short duration . From 2002 to 2004, Eugenio Fascetti's last career as a coach followed. He took over from Loris Dominissini at first division promoted Como Calcio , but could not manage to keep the league. The club's management then stuck to Fascetti, but this led Como into the relegation battle in the following Serie B season, which finally resulted in two-fold relegation from Como Calcio within two years to Serie C1 despite a coach change at the end of the season.

successes

As a player

• Italian championship : 1 ×

1960/61 with Juventus Turin

• Promotion to Serie A : 1 ×

1962/63 with FC Messina

As a trainer

• Promotion to Serie A : 5 ×

1984/85 with US Lecce

1987/88 with Lazio Rome

1989/90 with Torino Calcio

1990/91 with Hellas Verona

1996/97 with AS Bari

• Series C1 : 1 ×

1979/80 with FC Varese

Web links

Commons : Eugenio Fascetti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eugenio Fascetti in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile of his playing career (Italian)