Giuliano Giuliani

Giuliano Giuliani
Personnel
birthday	September 29, 1958
place of birth	Rome ,  Italy
date of death	November 16, 1996
Place of death	Bologna ,  Italy
size	181 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	US Arezzo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1980	US Arezzo	52 (0)
1980-1985	AC Como	135 (0)
1985-1988	Hellas Verona	86 (0)
1988-1990	SSC Naples	64 (0)
1990-1993	Udinese Calcio	76 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Giuliano Giuliani (born September 29, 1958 in Rome , † November 14, 1996 in Bologna ) was an Italian football player in the position of goalkeeper. He played for the US Arezzo , AC Como , Hellas Verona , SSC Napoli and Udinese Calcio . With Napoli , Giuliani was Italian football champion in the 1989/90 season and won the UEFA Cup the previous year .

Career

Giuliano Giuliani started playing football in the jersey of the US Arezzo in Tuscany . For Arezzo , the goalkeeper played primarily in the second-rate Serie B football from 1976 to 1980 , after having previously visited the club's youth department. Giuliani came to 52 league games for US Arezzo in these four years and only had to concede 35 goals in these league games, which moved him into the focus of larger football clubs in Italy. In 1980 he received an offer from the first division promoted AC Como , which he also accepted. In Como Giuliano Giuliani immediately advanced to the goalkeeper and helped the Northern Italians to stay in the league in the 1980/81 season with thirteenth place, tied with the first relegated Brescia Calcio . In the following season, however, AC Como had to go into the second division with Giuliani in goal, after finishing last in Serie A in 1981/82 . After the direct resurgence was missed, this succeeded in Serie B 1983/84, so that AC Como played first class again in the season 1984/85. With only 27 goals conceded - in this respect Como could compete with the best teams in the league - but also only seventeen own goals, the relegation emerged at the end of the season with three points ahead of Ascoli Calcio .

While AC Como held the class, Hellas Verona was the first and only time Italian football champion in 1985. Their coach Osvaldo Bagnoli needed a replacement for the master keeper Claudio Garella who had migrated to Naples and found this in Giuliano Giuliani. Giuliani was then under contract with Hellas Verona from 1985 to 1988. In the club's jersey he experienced the slow downward trend of Il Verona di Bagnoli , only placements in midfield of Serie A were achieved. Giuliani made 86 league games for Hellas Verona, but also conceded 85 goals. Nevertheless, it aroused the interest of SSC Napoli , where they had to replace Garella, who had gone to Udinese Calcio .

Giuliano Giuliani had his most successful time as a football player as the goalkeeper of SSC Napoli. With the big SSC team led by Diego Maradona , Careca and Andrea Carnevale , the UEFA Cup was brought to Campania in the 1988/89 season , which was the club's greatest success to date. In the final, the German representative VfB Stuttgart was defeated 2-1 in the home stadium San Paolo and 3: 3 in the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart . Giuliano Giuliani was in goal of SSC Napoli in both finals. In general, he played as a regular goalkeeper during his time at Napoli and made 64 games for the club. A year after triumphing in the UEFA Cup, Giuliano Giuliani was also successful in the national championship as the keeper of SSC Napoli. Coach Alberto Bigon's team won Serie A in 1989/90 with first place, two points ahead of defending champions AC Milan . In general, the 1989/90 season with the subsequent 5-1 in the Super Cup against Juventus Turin was the climax of the most successful era of SSC Napoli, after which the club quickly went downhill.

Giuliano Giuliani, however, did not live to see the decline of SSC Napoli. He went to Udinese Calcio in the summer of 1990, where he succeeded Claudio Garella, whom he inherited for the third time at a club. For Udine , Giuliani held three more years, initially two years in Serie B and at the end of his career one more season in Serie A, where he helped Udinese Calcio to stay up. After the end of the 1992/93 season Giuliano Giuliani ended his active career as a football goalkeeper at the age of 35.

death

Only three years after the end of his career, Giuliano Giuliani was diagnosed with the immunodeficiency disease AIDS . The former goalkeeper died of this illness on November 14, 1996 at the age of only 38 in Bologna . He left behind his wife, the Italian television presenter Raffaella Del Rosario .

Raffaella Del Rosario accused the former president of the Napoli SSC, Corrado Ferlaino , of doping in 2003 and linked this to the death of her husband. Ferlaino denied these allegations and said that there was never any doping in the SSC Napoli team of those years and that he could not accept liability for the death of Giuliano Giuliani. Del Rosario also later admitted that the allegations against Ferlaino were fabricated.

successes

• UEFA Cup : 1 ×

1988/89

• Italian championship : 1 ×

1989/90

Web links

• Giuliano Giuliani in the database of weltfussball.de
• Article on his death

Individual evidence

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