Gianpiero Combi

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Gianpiero Combi
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Gianpiero Combi
Personnel
birthday November 20, 1902
place of birth Turin ,  Kingdom of Italy
date of death August 12, 1956
Place of death Imperia ,  Italy
size 174 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1921-1934 Juventus Turin 369 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1924-1934 Italy 47 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Gianpiero Combi (born November 20, 1902 in Turin , † August 12, 1956 in Imperia ) was an Italian football player .

As the goalkeeper of Juventus Turin , he won the Serie A championship five times in 1926 and subsequently from 1931 to 1934 . In the national team he completed 47 international matches from 1924 to 1934 and won the soccer world championship in 1934 under coach Vittorio Pozzo . Together with Ricardo Zamora , Rudolf Hiden and František Plánička, he was one of the great goalkeepers of this era.

career

society

Born in Turin, Gianpiero Combi played his entire career as a goalkeeper at Juventus Turin . He made his debut in the Juventus league team on February 5, 1922 in the game against Pro Vercelli . With Juve he was five times Italian champion in the course of his career between 1926 and 1934 and was part of the legendary team of the Quinquennio d'Oro . When Edoardo Agnelli , President of the Fiat group, took over the presidency of Juventus Turin in 1923 , the economic basis of the club was enormously improved and the foundations for future successes laid. The goalkeeper, who came to the first team in 1922, saw his first title win in the 1925/26 series when he and Juventus won the two finals in August 1926 with 7-1 and 5-0 goals against Alba SS Roma. From the 1929/30 season , the championship was played in Serie A , Ambrosiana-Inter got the Scudetto and Juve took third place. In the 1932/33 series , Combi had played all 34 league games and only conceded 23 goals - the goalkeeper who was only 1.74 m tall was credited with superior positional play, agility, elegance and excellent conducting. Together with Umberto Caligaris and Virginio Rosetta , he formed a final triangle of international class. Under coach Carlo Carcano he also took part in the Mitropapokal competition from 1931 to 1934 . The Combi, also called Uomo di Gomma ( rubber man ), played his last game in Serie A on April 15, 1934 in a 2-1 win against Brescia Calcio . After the round of 1933/34 the "prestigiatore in porta" ("magician in the gate") ended his career.

National team, 1924 to 1934

Combi made his debut in the Italian national team on April 6, 1924 at the international match in Budapest against Hungary. The game ended in a 1: 7 defeat and for the Turin there followed a nearly one-year creative break with five international matches. On March 22, 1925, however, after his second use in the Squadra Azzurra, a 7-0 win against France was recorded and he had thus rehabilitated. But he wasn't a regular goalkeeper yet. Goalkeeper Giovanni De Prà from Genoa FC competed against France (4: 3) until the first game at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam on May 29th. After his convincing performances at the Olympic tournament in the two games against Spain (play-off 7-1 victory), the 2-3 semi-final defeat against Uruguay and the high 11-3 success in the game for 3rd place on June 10th against Egypt by winning the bronze medal, he was the undisputed placeholder in the goal of the Squadra Azzurra . From June 1, 1928 (against Spain) to December 13, 1931 in Turin against Hungary (3-2), the goalkeeper of Juventus Turin was in 24 international matches without interruption in the goal of the national team. This also included the meetings on April 28, 1929 in Turin and on March 2, 1930 in Frankfurt against the German national soccer team . While the Nuremberg goalkeeper colleague Heiner Stuhlfauth contributed to the surprising 2-1 success of the German team with his outstanding performance in Turin, Italy succeeded in revenge in Frankfurt with a convincing Combi in goal with a 2-0 victory.

Combi and his teammates also prevailed against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Switzerland in the first-ever European Cup of national soccer teams from 1927 to 1930 . In the second edition of 1931/32 he took second place with Italy before he was able to win the competition for the second time from 1933 to 1935 .

In the 4-0 success in the World Cup qualifier on March 25, 1934 in Milan against Greece, Carlo Ceresoli guarded the goal of the Squadra Azzurra . Combi had massive intentions to end his career and was only persuaded by Vittorio Pozzo to make himself available again for the world championship after Ceresoli broke his hand. When he won the World Cup in 1934 , he was the captain of the world championship team. In addition to winning the title, the duels with fellow goalkeepers Ricardo Zamora, Peter Platzer and František Plánička in the games against Spain, Austria and Czechoslovakia stood out. After the final on June 10, 1934 in Rome, he ended his playing career after 47 international matches.

His teammate Giuseppe Meazza judged Combi:

“ Above all, I remember one extraordinary ability Combi: he had perfect positional play in goal that one involuntarily got the impression that there is no easier job in the world than soccer goalkeeper. Combi was always in the right place, where he was in the way of the flight of the ball. [...] In all the games that I played with Combi in the national dress or against him in the inter dress, I rarely saw him try to catch the ball by throwing a robinsonade. He had nothing to do with effects, as a goalkeeper he was practicality itself. "

Combi died suddenly of a heart attack in 1956 .

successes

In the club

In the national team

References

literature

  • Christoph Bausenwein: The last men. On the genre history and soul science of the gatekeeper. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-425-1 .
  • BF Hoffmann : The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. A lexicon. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-498-7 .
  • Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 .
  • Roderich Menzel: The best eleven goalkeepers. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, ISBN 3-7779-0118-0 .

Web links

Commons : Gianpiero Combi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. 2., completely revised. Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 , p. 191.
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. 2., completely revised. Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 , p. 195.
  3. ^ BF Hoffmann: The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. A lexicon. P. 51.
  4. ↑ Christoph Bausenwein: The last men. On the genre history and soul science of the gatekeeper. P. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Combi, Gianpiero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1956
Place of death Imperia