Gianluca Vialli

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Gianluca Vialli
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Gianluca Vialli (2017)
Personnel
birthday July 9, 1964
place of birth Cremona ,  Italy
size 180 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1973-1978 Pizzighettone
1978-1980 US Cremonese
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1984 US Cremonese 105 (23)
1984-1992 Sampdoria Genoa 223 (85)
1992-1996 Juventus Turin 102 (38)
1996-1999 Chelsea FC 58 (21)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1986 Italy U-21 21 (11)
1985-1992 Italy 59 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-1999 Chelsea FC (player-coach)
1999-2000 Chelsea FC
2001-2002 Watford FC
1 Only league games are given.

Gianluca Vialli (born July 9, 1964 in Cremona ) is a former Italian football player and coach .

Player career

society

In his youth he played for his hometown club US Cremonese , which he in the Series B led. Here other clubs became aware of him and he was signed by Sampdoria Genoa.

At Sampdoria he formed a dreaded storm duo with his long-time friend Roberto Mancini . With Sampdoria he won the European Cup in 1990 and won the only Italian championship in the club's history in 1990/91 . In addition, he was with Sampdoria in two other European Cup finals (1989 European Cup Winners' Cup and 1992 Champions League ), but lost each to FC Barcelona .

In 1992 Vialli moved to Juventus Turin , where he should celebrate further national and international successes. In 1994 in particular, he made his way through the club with a new look (bald head), as the new coach, Marcello Lippi , was also behind him. He quickly became the leader of the successful squad and its captain. For players like Alessandro Del Piero , he became a role model and role model. He reached the UEFA Cup finals in 1993 and 1995 and won the first with Turin against Borussia Dortmund , while he had to admit defeat to AC Parma the second time . Finally, the coronation followed in 1996 by winning the Champions League against Ajax Amsterdam . Vialli is one of the few players to have won all three European Cups (including Arnold Mühren , Marco Tardelli , Gaetano Scirea , Vítor Baía , Danny Blind , Sonny Silooy , Sergio Brio and Antonio Cabrini ). He is also the only one who has won and lost finals in all three competitions.

After this success he moved to Chelsea in England . After Ruud Gullit's dismissal in February 1998, he became the club's player- coach at the same time - as the first Italian in the Premier League  - himself, a number of times and at the end of the season he won the European Cup Winners' Cup again as player-coach (1-0 against VfB Stuttgart ). At the age of 33, he was the youngest winning coach in the history of the European Cup and at the same time had been on the starting line-up himself in the final. André Villas-Boas has now beaten the record in 2011. He did not end his playing career, but played another year as a coach and player until 1999, in which he led Chelsea to third place in the table to the best placement since 1970 and for the first time in the club's history in the Champions League.

Then he finally ended his active career, in his first season only advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League as a coach and won the FA Cup at the end of the season . At the opening of the 2000/01 season he achieved the fifth title win in three years with the Charity Shield and was thus, originally as a player, the most successful coach in Chelsea's history. However, it also became the last title of his career. After disputes with some players and a bad start to the season, he was released after five games in September 2000. Only in the 2001/02 season he was again a year as a coach at the second division Watford FC . Despite numerous investments, only the 14th place in the table was at the end of the season and Vialli had to leave the club.

Gianluca Vialli took part in seven European Cup finals: he was in the European Cup Winners' Cup final with Sampdoria Genoa in 1989 and 1990, in the European Cup final in 1992, in the UEFA Cup final with Juventus in 1993 and 1995, and in the Champions League final in 1996 and finally with Chelsea FC again in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1998.

National team

Gianluca Vialli played 59 times for the Italian national team and scored 16 goals. He took part in the 1986 and 1990 World Championships and the 1988 European Championships .

Success as a player

Sampdoria Genoa

Juventus Turin

Chelsea FC

National team

Personal awards

Coaching career

Success as a trainer

Chelsea FC

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Vialli, Gianluca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona