Giorgio Ferrini

Giorgio Ferrini
Giorgio Ferrini (center) during the Battle of Santiago
Personnel
birthday	August 18, 1939
place of birth	Trieste ,  Italy
date of death	November 8, 1976
Place of death	Turin ,  Italy
size	174 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Ponziana
	AC Turin
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1959	Varese FC	34 (10)
1959-1975	AC Turin	443 (42)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1968	Italy	7 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1975-1976	AC Turin (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Giorgio Ferrini (born August 18, 1939 in Trieste , † November 8, 1976 in Turin ) was an Italian football player .

Club career

Giorgio Ferrini began his professional career at Varese FC in Serie C , to which he was loaned from his home club AC Turin in 1958/59 . In 1959 he returned to Toro and made promotion to Serie A with the club in the 1959/60 season . Ferrini stayed until the end of his career in 1975, the Turin club, for which he completed a total of 443 games and scored 42 goals, loyal. In 1968 and 1971 he won the Coppa Italia with AC Turin .

International career

Internationally, Giorgio Ferrini played seven times for Italy . He took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile , where he was eliminated with the Squadra Azzurra in the group stage as third. Ferrini gained notoriety when he in the group game against hosts Chile , which as Battle of Santiago , went down in football history as early as the sixth minute a sending- received, refused but ten minutes to leave the field until he by police was led from the square.

Six years later he won the European title at the European Championship in 1968 in his native Italy with the national team under Ferruccio Valcareggi .

With the Italian selection he also took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . The host's team took fourth place.

After the active career

Ferrini only had a year to enjoy his football pension. He was assistant coach at Turin FC for a year before he died of an aneurysm at the age of 37 .

successes

• Italian Cup Winner : 1962/63 , 1967/68 , 1970/71
• European champion : 1968

Web links

• Giorgio Ferrini in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Giorgio Ferrini in the database of weltfussball.de
• detailed statistics at rsssf.com (English)
• Mission data at the Italian Association (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spiegel Online: As Pelé cried with homesickness World Cup anecdotes Part 2, published on June 23, 2010.