Giovan Battista Fabbri

Giovan Battista Fabbri
Personnel
birthday	March 8, 1926
place of birth	San Pietro in Casale ,  Italy
date of death	June 3. 2015
Place of death	Ferrara ,  Italy
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945-1947	US Centese	33 (14)
1947-1949	Modena FC	37 0(6)
1949-1955	FC Messina	157 (21)
1955-1956	SPAL Ferrara	24 0(1)
1956-1957	AC Pavia	31 0(5)
1957-1959	FC Varese	38 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1957-1959	FC Varese
1964	SPAL Ferrara
1969-1970	SPAL Ferrara
1971-1972	AC Sangiovannese
1972-1973	Giulianova Calcio
1973-1974	AS Livorno
1974-1976	FC Piacenza
1976-1979	Lanerossi Vicenza
1979-1981	Ascoli Calcio
1981-1982	AC Cesena
1982-1983	AC Reggiana
1983-1984	Catania Calcio
1984-1985	US Catanzaro
1985-1986	US Foggia
1987	Bologna FC
1987-1988	SPAL Ferrara
1988-1989	AC Venice
1989-1990	US Catanzaro
1990-1993	SPAL Ferrara
1 Only league games are given.

Giovan Battista Fabbri (born March 8, 1926 in San Pietro in Casale , † June 3, 2015 in Ferrara ) was an Italian football player and later coach . As an active player, he didn’t make a great impression, as coach he led the Lanerossi Vicenza team to the runner-up. He also coached FC Varese , Ascoli Calcio and AC Cesena, among others .

Player career

Giovan Battista Fabbri, born in 1926 in the city of San Pietro in Casale, now with around 12,000 inhabitants in the Emilian province of Bologna , began playing football with the US Centese , where he was under contract from 1945 to 1947. As part of the Series C he came here to 33 league games with fourteen hits and helped his club in 1947 also crucial for the first and to date only promotion to the Serie B . However, Centese could not stay there and immediately descended and has not been promoted again to this day.

Fabbri joined FC Modena in the summer of 1947 , which was playing first-class at the time. In Modena , the attacker made a total of 37 league games in two years between 1947 and 1949, but only had a rate of six goals. In Serie A 1947/48 Giovan Battista Fabbri was part of the team of FC Modena, which achieved the second-best first division placement in the club's history with sixth place. A year later, however , things went much worse for the Emilian club, they were only penultimate in Serie A 1948/49 with a gap of one point on the saving bank, occupied by AS Bari , which resulted in relegation to Serie B. would have. Fabbri left the FC Modena then and moved to Sicily for FC Messina . After advancing to Serie B in 1950 as Serie C champions, Messina spent the next thirteen years in Serie B, five of which were with Giovan Battista Fabbri. In these years, the club scratched for the first time close to promotion to Serie A, but still failed. This was not supposed to be wrapped up until the summer of 1963. Giovan Battista Fabbri made a total of 157 league games for FC Messina between 1949 and 1955, in which he scored 21 goals.

From 1955 Fabbri played a year at SPAL Ferrara in Serie A, where they could occupy an attractive ninth place in the table. Fabbri contributed 24 missions and one goal. After this one year he played another year at AC Pavia and made 31 games with five goals there in the third division. After the forced relegation of Pavia at the end of the 1956/57 season Giovan Battista Fabbri went to FC Varese , where he was active for the remaining two years of his playing career. Varese, then fourth class, made the leap to Serie C with Giovan Battista Fabbri, where the team was able to establish itself. Parallel to his playing life in Varese , Fabbri was also a coach here and in this role he had his first stop in northern Italy. 1959 ended his engagement both as a player and as a coach at FC Varese.

Coaching career

After his first success with FC Varese, Giovan Battista Fabbri worked in youth work for several years. From 1959 to 1963 he was youth coach at AC Turin , from 1963 to 1964 and from 1964 to 1969 at SPAL Ferrara and from 1970 to 1971 at AC Cesena coach of young players. In between there were two short-term engagements as coach of the first team of SPAL Ferrara, but these were only interim. 1971 took over the Fabbri AC Sangiovannese as a coach and got into the team with the Series D from. Then he was from 1972 to 1973 coach of Giulianova Calcio , where promotion to Serie B was just missed. His tenure at AS Livorno can be described in a similar way . In 1974 Giovan Battista Fabbri took over as coach at FC Piacenza . As the first of the Girona A Series C in 1974/75, Fabbri led his team into the second division, but only had to accept direct relegation a year later.

Nonetheless, Giovan Battista Fabbri was taken on as a coach by the traditional club and Serie A permanent guest Lanerossi Vicenza in the summer of 1976 , where he spent by far his most successful time as a football teacher. With Lanerossi Vicenza, Fabbri rose as the first in the Serie B in 1976/77 with a lead of two points over Atalanta Bergamo back into Serie A, from which they had been relegated two years earlier for the first time since 1955. And the climber from Vicenza turned out to be a real surprise. Lanerossi played a sensational season with players such as the young attacker Paolo Rossi , his striker colleague Massimo Briaschi or defender Luciano Marangon and at the end of the season finished second in Serie A 1977/78 , just five points behind the new and old Italian champion Juventus Turin . To this day, this season represents the best placement in the club's history of today's Vicenza Calcio. In view of the surprising performance, Vicenza dei Miracoli , the miracle of Vicenza , is often mentioned in this context . Real Vicenza is also often spoken of. Based on this runner-up season 1977/78, a club called Real Vicenza was founded in 2010 , which has now advanced to the third Italian league. Lanerossi Vicenza provided the best offensive in the league with 50 goals this season and the top scorer in Paolo Rossi (24 hits), who started his successful career from Vicenza. However, Lanerossi Vicenza did not even begin to repeat these achievements the following year. Similar to the AC Perugia of Ilario Castagner also Vicenza slumped after the runner-up rapidly, and this trend was even faster than in Perugia at Lanerossi. With only 24 points in Serie A 1978/79 , they only slipped to a relegation zone on the last day of the match due to a defeat against Atalanta Bergamo and a simultaneous point win by FC Bologna . Only one year after the runner-up, Lanerossi Vicenza found himself back in Serie B. And it would take until 1986 before another short first division term for Lanerossi Vicenza followed.

Giovan Battista Fabbri left Vicenza after relegation to Serie B and became the new coach of the first division Ascoli Calcio . Here he managed a surprise similar to that with Lanerossi Vicenza, ending Serie A 1979/80 on a strong fourth place in the table and missing the European Cup by just one point against Torino Calcio. A year later, Ascoli was crawling around in the table basement and Fabbri was replaced by Carlo Mazzone about halfway through the season . In 1981 Giovan Battista Fabbri took over at AC Cesena from promotion coach Osvaldo Bagnoli , but was only in charge of the team for half a year. Then came his dismissal, club veteran Renato Lucchi took over and led Cesena to secure relegation.

Giovan Battista Fabbri was slowly saying goodbye to the big football stage. Numerous engagements in series B, C or even lower followed in the next few years. For example, he coached AC Reggiana from 1982 to 1983 , US Foggia from 1985 to 1986 and, in 1987, the briefly slipped FC Bologna. The only first division activity at this time was a job at Catania Calcio , where he took over half of the 1983/84 season from Gianni Di Marzio , but could not avoid relegation. Giovan Battista Fabbri had his last position in Italian football from 1990 to 1993 as technical director at SPAL Ferrara, where he was promoted to Serie B together with coach Gian Cesare Discepoli . From this one got off again immediately. After the end of the second division season 1992/93, Giovan Battista Fabbri's long coaching career finally ended at the age of 67.

successes

As a player

• Series C : 1 ×

1949/50 with FC Messina

As a trainer

• Italian runner-up : 1 ×

1977/78 with Lanerossi Vicenza

• Series B : 1 ×

1976/77 with Lanerossi Vicenza

• Series C : 1 ×

1975/75 with FC Piacenza

• Series C1 : 2 ×

1984/85 with the US Catanzaro

1991/92 with SPAL Ferrara

• Italian coach of the year: 1 ×

1977/78 as coach of Lanerossi Vicenza

Web links

• Biography Giovan Battista Fabbris
• History of the Real Vicenza
• Profile of his coaching career