Gabriele Ambrosetti

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Gabriele Ambrosetti
Personnel
birthday 7th August 1973
place of birth Varese ,  Italy
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1990 AS Varese
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1993 AS Varese 50 (11)
1993-1995 Brescia Calcio 43 (12)
1994-1995 →  AC Venezia  (loan) 18 0(3)
1995-1999 Vicenza Calcio 103 (18)
1999-2003 Chelsea FC 16 0(0)
2001-2002 →  Piacenza Calcio  (loan) 28 0(1)
2002 →  Vicenza Calcio  (loan) 11 0(1)
2003-2005 Piacenza Calcio 28 0(1)
2005-2007 Pro Patria Calcio 41 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Gabriele Ambrosetti (born August 7, 1973 in Varese , Italy ) is a former Italian football player .

He was a member of the successful team of Vicenza Calcio , which won the Coppa Italia in the mid-1990s and made it to the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . Due to strong performances during his first period at the club, he is one of the best players in the club's history alongside Roberto Baggio and Paolo Rossi .

Between 1996 and 1998 he was among the top-rated players in Serie A , but never made it to the national team of his country .

Club career

Ambrosetti began his career in the youth of his home club AS Varese . In 1990 he rose to the A-team and made his debut in the series C . In the 1993/94 season he made his breakthrough with nine goals this season as a left midfielder and then moved to Serie B at Brescia Calcio .

Brescia Calcio

In the first division relegated, he then advanced to the surprise of the season and fought for a regular place in the strong midfield of the northern Italians. In conjunction with the then superstar Gheorghe Hagi , the left midfield was the starting point for a large part of the offensive game of the blue-white, which was also reflected in the 19 goals scored together. Brescia managed to get promoted immediately, after which Ambrosetti went into his first Serie A season. There the club had to compensate for the departure of Hagi, who moved back to Spain to FC Barcelona after the successful soccer World Cup in 1994 , which they tried to solve with an abundance of new purchases. Brescia was then not ready for the first division and was in a relegation battle from the start. Despite two goals in nine appearances in the autumn, coach Mircea Lucescu decided to hire Ambrosetti in the winter and increasingly rely on established players in the relegation battle.

In the second half of the season he then went back to Serie B for AC Venezia for six months , where he acted inconspicuously, only scoring three goals in 18 missions and returning to his home club, which had just been relegated, at the end of the season. Brescia was forced to drastically reduce the budget due to the renewed descent into the second division, whereupon all legionnaires except Ioan Sabău were given up and a new start with their own talents such as Andrea Pirlo or Roberto Baronio was tried. This led to the fact that the club in the fall of the 1994/95 season also slipped into the table cellar in Serie B and had gambled away the chances of promotion early. As a result, Ambrosetti could no longer be held by the club and was sold to Serie A to Vicenza Calcio .

Vicenza Calcio

In Vicenza he immediately became an important part of the then modern 4-4-2 system of coach Francesco Guidolin on the left offensive flank. Secured by a strong defense with players like Luigi Sartor , Joachim Björklund or Giovanni Lopez , he had a lot of offensive freedom, which he used as a template for the regular storm Marcelo Otero and Roberto Murgita . In the following season, Ambrosetti achieved the greatest success in the club's history by winning the Coppa Italia against SSC Napoli . 1997/98 you came after victories against Legia Warsaw and Roda Kerkrade to the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup , where you were narrowly defeated by the eventual winners Chelsea FC with an overall result of 2: 3. Ambrosetti, meanwhile risen to the outstanding personality in the game of Vicenza, played a large part in reaching the semi-finals with a total of two goals and three assists and was the best player of his team in both semi-finals against Chelsea. Simultaneously to the success at the European level, they got into the lower third of the table for the first time in the league, but were able to temporarily fix the problem areas on the position of the left defender and in the central midfield by borrowing from Roberto Baronio, Francesco Coco and Massimo Ambrosini . Above all, Ambrosini turned out to be a direct hit, made the breakthrough in professional football and proved to be a strong addition to Ambrosetti on the left side of midfield. After the departure of successful coach Guidolin to Udinese Calcio and the return of Coco and Ambrosini to AC Milan , the club could no longer maintain the high level and was relegated as seventeenth in the table. Ambrosetti had remained loyal to the club despite several offers, but was no longer ready to go into league two.

Chelsea FC

As a result, he moved as a dream player from Gianluca Vialli for a transfer fee of £ 3.5 million to England to his then club Chelsea. Vialli wanted to sign him after his strong performances in the European Cup, which had failed the previous year. Even before his arrival he was praised by Vialli over the clover and touted as the "Italian Ryan Giggs ", which resulted in high expectations of the player that he could never meet. Ambrosetti had great problems adapting to the English style of play and acted as a shadow of himself. In addition, there was the total failure of the £ 10 million star buyer Chris Sutton , which Ambrosetti was supposed to provide with templates. Vialli came under pressure due to generally poor performance and had to change, whereupon Ambrosetti lost his regular place. As a result, he still had to struggle with injury problems and by the end of the season only made 16 season appearances without scoring and was next to Sutton the big transfer flop of the season. After the dismissal of Vialli and the engagement of coach Claudio Ranieri , he was transferred to the reserve team for the 2000/01 season and loaned back home to the then second division club FC Piacenza in the winter transition period .

Loan phases

As a result, he managed to move up to Serie A with the club as runner-up behind FC Turin . Although he only made 14 season appearances due to several minor injuries, Piacenza then extended the loan contract with the player. Piacenza then advanced to the surprise team of the season due to the strong signings of Eusebio Di Francesco , Matuzalém and Dario Hübner , the poorly shaped Ambrosetti, in contrast, fell more and more offside and lost his regular place. Piacenza put no more emphasis on an extension of the loan contract, whereupon the recently relegated Vicenza seized the chance to bring the former star back.

The return was disappointing, however. Vicenza had already almost gambled away the chances of promotion during the first half of the season and was in the league's no man's land despite a relatively strong squad with players like the then talented Christian Maggio , Fabio Firmani or Stjepan Tomas . The Ambrosetti brought in as a savior was only a shadow of earlier times in terms of performance, fought again with several injuries and at best offered average performance. At the end of the season, for financial reasons, he was obliged to take the option to buy, whereupon he came back to Chelsea after two years on loan.

At the beginning of the 2002/03 season he should be given in exchange to Lazio Rome as part of the planned commitment of Dino Baggio . The exchange ultimately failed due to a serious injury Baggio sustained at the beginning of the season, whereupon Ambrosetti was forced to sit out his contract with Chelsea.

Career end

For the 2003/04 season he moved back home again for FC Piacenza , who had just been relegated again. Despite an entire season without match practice he was able to fight for a regular place right away and played a good, albeit far less important role in the game system of Romagnoles . After only one season he left Piacenza again and went to the C1 series for the traditional club Pro Patria Calcio , where he let his professional career end until 2007.

After retiring as a professional, he played for two years at the amateur level for ASD Fulgor Cardano before he retired completely from active football in 2009.

Others

In 2007, alongside former star players Benito Carbone and Giuseppe Signori, he won the annual "FIFPro tournament for players without a contract" in Lisbon with an Italian selection .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grande e la Vittoria della Coppa Italia (Italian) storiedicalcio.org, accessed on November 10, 2010
  2. ^ Il le Delusione di Stamford Bride (Italian) storiedicalcio.org, accessed November 10, 2010
  3. ↑ Il Dopo-Chelsea: Declino e Mediocrita (Italian) storiedicalcio.org, accessed on November 10, 2010
  4. ↑ Baggio in Chelsea swap (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on November 10, 2010
  5. ↑ Chelsea set to sign pounds 3m Ambrosetti (English) independent.co.uk, accessed November 10, 2010
  6. ↑ Family tree of champions Chelsea (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on November 10, 2010
  7. ↑ Ambrosetti torna in Italia (Italian) ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. raisport.rai.it, accessed November 10, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.raisport.rai.it
  8. ↑ Piacenza: arriva Sommese, Ambrosetti a Vicenza (Italian) tuttomercatoweb.com, accessed on November 2, 2010
  9. ^ Lazio: Sorin e Baggio verso l'Inghilterra (Italian) tuttomercatoweb.com, accessed on November 3, 2010
  10. ↑ Ambrosetti: "La mia esperienza al Chelsea è stata bellissima" (Italian) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. tuttomercatoweb.com, accessed November 3, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuttomercatoweb.com
  11. ^ L'Italia campione d'Europa (Italian) gazzetta.it, accessed on November 10, 2010
  12. ^ FIFPro Tournament 2005-2009 rsssf.com, accessed November 10, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Ambrosetti, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese , Italy