Giovanni Invernizzi (football player, 1931)

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Giovanni Invernizzi
Personnel
birthday August 26, 1931
place of birth Albairate ,  Italy
date of death February 28, 2005
Place of death Milan ,  Italy
size 180 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1945-1949 Ambrosiana-Inter
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1960 Ambrosiana-Inter 148 (6)
1950-1951 →  CFC Genoa  (loan) 22 (0)
1952-1953 →  US Triestina  (loan) 24 (0)
1953-1954 →  Udinese Calcio  (loan) 26 (0)
1960-1961 AC Turin 17 (0)
1961–1962 AC Venice 9 (0)
1962-1964 FC Como 47 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1958 Italy 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1970-1973 Inter Milan
1973-1974 AS Taranto
1974-1975 Brindisi sport
1976 Piacenza Calcio
1 Only league games are given.

Giovanni Invernizzi (born August 26, 1931 in Albairate , † February 28, 2005 in Milan ) was an Italian football player and coach . As an active player for a long time at Inter Milan , he won the Italian championship title in the 1970/71 season with this club as a coach at Scudetto . Besides Inter, he only coached lower-class clubs such as AS Taranto Calcio and Piacenza Calcio .

Player career

Giovanni Invernizzi played for Inter Milan from 1949 to 1960 , in whose jersey he came to a total of 148 league games with six goals. The defender had previously visited Inter's youth departments. He made his debut for Inter Milan under coach Giulio Cappelli on April 30, 1950 in a 0-1 defeat against AC Turin . As a result, however, he was unable to assert himself properly and was loaned to CFC Genoa for the 1950/51 season, with which he, however, had to accept relegation to the second-rate Serie B. From 38 possible season games Invernizzi made 22. Then he returned to Inter Milan and again could not establish himself in the first team, the season 1951/52 he ended with four league appearances. This was followed by two years with loan transactions to US Triestina and Udinese Calcio . In these two positions Giovanni Invernizzi developed into a seasoned first division professional, after his return to Milan he became a regular player and in the following six years he played 141 league games in the Nerazzurri dress . Invernizzi did not celebrate any great success during this time, however, he left the club because he was no longer able to play under the new coach Helenio Herrera . It developed as a result of the Grande Inter , which was to achieve worldwide success in the 1960s.

In the summer of 1960 Giovanni Invernizzi went to AC Turin, where he was under contract for a year. In the Stadio Filadelfia he was only used seventeen times and finished with his team as a promoted team in twelfth place in the Serie A 1960/61 . Since he was rarely used, Invernizzi changed clubs again after the end of the 1960/61 season and from then on played for AC Venice , which was promoted to Serie A in 1961 . With the support of Giovanni Invernizzi, who could not really assert himself again in Venice and only completed nine league games, AC Venice ended up twelfth and held the class. Invernizzi, however, moved on after the end of the season and joined FC Como , where he let his career end over the next two years. In two years Giovanni Invernizzi made 47 league games for Como .

In 1958 Giovanni Invernizzi was used once in the dress of the Italian national football team . He made this one international match in Belfast against Northern Ireland . Since Italy failed to qualify for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden , Giovanni Invernizzi was denied participation in the World Cup. He was not granted any further international matches either.

Coaching career

A few years after the end of his active career as a soccer player, Giovanni Invernizzi began a career as a coach. First he held the post of coach of the second team of Inter Milan. When Heriberto Herrera was fired from Internazionale in November 1970, Invernizzi was promoted to the new coach of the first team. Invernizzi led the team around players like Gianfranco Bedin , Jair da Costa and Mario Corso , who was no longer considered under Herrera, but performed well under Invernizzi, to the championship. Winning the Serie A title in 1970/71 meant the eleventh championship to date for Inter Milan and should be the last for almost ten years. In the summer of 1971, the time of the Grande Inter ended for good, after which it was not possible to build on the performances of the past days. The Serie A 1971/72 Inter Milan ended with Giovanni Invernizzi as the person in charge on the sidelines only in fifth place, while Juventus Turin secured the Italian football championship. In the 1971-72 European Cup , for themselves Inter had qualified as Italian champion in 1971, was reached after successes against AEK Athens of Greece , Borussia Moenchengladbach in Germany , Standard Liege of Belgium and Celtic of Scotland the final, where however the Up-and-coming Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam failed 2-0 with two goals from Johan Cruyff .

The 1972/73 season did not go according to the ideas of those in charge of Inter Milan, for which the executive floor also made coach Giovanni Invernizzi responsible. The coach was dismissed during the season after a series of poor results and replaced by Enea Masiero , who, however, did not bring the desired success. Inter Milan ended the season again only in fifth place in the table. In addition, the end of the 1972/73 UEFA Cup came in the third round against Portuguese representative Vitória Setúbal .

After being kicked out of Inter Milan, Giovanni Invernizzi soon became the new coach of the second division AS Taranto , with whom he finished sixth in Serie B 1973/74 and moved to Brindisi Sport after the season . There and also at his last club as a football coach, Piacenza Calcio , Giovanni Invernizzi remained relatively unsuccessful. He ended his career as a football coach in 1976 after only six years in the job. He then returned to Inter Milan and acted as a player observer and scout for the club. Giovanni Invernizzi died on February 28, 2005 at the age of 73 in a Milan hospital after a long illness.

successes

1970/71 with Inter Milan
1971/72 with Inter Milan

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personal data
SURNAME Invernizzi, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Albairate , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2005
Place of death Milan , Italy