Giuseppe Volpecina

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Giuseppe Volpecina
Personnel
birthday May 1, 1961
place of birth Caserta ,  Italy
size 179 cm
position defender
Juniors
Years station
until 1977 US Casertana
1977-1979 SSC Naples
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1980 SSC Naples 3 (0)
1980-1984 SSC Palermo 133 (6)
1984-1986 SC Pisa 76 (3)
1986-1987 SSC Naples 25 (2)
1987-1989 Hellas Verona 59 (2)
1989-1991 AC Florence 38 (1)
1991-1992 US Casertana 30 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Giuseppe Volpecina (born May 1, 1961 in Caserta ) is a former Italian football player. Among other things, he was part of the SSC Napoli team that won the first national championship for the southern Italian club in 1987. Later, you still for Hellas Verona and Fiorentina active, he reached with Fiorentina the final of the UEFA Cup in 1989/90 , but they lost Juventus .

Career

Giuseppe Volpecina, born in 1961 in Caserta , a town in the Campania region near Naples , began playing football for the US Casertana club , where he worked in the youth department. At the age of 16 he was discovered by the talent scouts of the SSC Napoli, the result was a move to the youth division of the SSC. There he acted for two years before Volpecina made the leap into the first team under coach Luís Vinício . In a team around players such as Giuseppe Bruscolotti , Moreno Ferrario or Mauro Bellugi , however, the young defender could not prevail and was only used three times in the Serie A 1979/80 , he did not succeed in scoring.

Due to a lack of playing time, Giuseppe Volpecina moved to the club after the end of the 1979/80 season. He went for the next four years on loan to the SSC Palermo , then in the second-rate Series B settled. In Palermo , Volpecina became an absolute regular player, in the four years of his activity in Sicily he made 133 league games for the club and scored six goals. Since the US Palermo had neither very good financial nor human resources in those years, they bobbed around in the lowlands of Serie B and even had to accept relegation to third division after the end of the 1983/84 season with records of 17th place in the table. After relegation, Giuseppe Volpecina also left the US Palermo, as the loan ended. Back at SSC Napoli, he was awarded again, this time to SC Pisa and this time for two years. SC Pisa had just been relegated from Serie A and was considered a candidate for promotion. Under coach Luigi Simoni , years later the European Cup winner coach of Inter Milan , the mission to rise again succeeded with a sovereign first place and by far the best offensive in the league. Simoni went to Lazio Rome after promotion , his successor was Vincenzo Guerini . Under the new coach things did not go so well for SC Pisa and the direct relegation followed with the third from last place in the table in Serie A 1985/86 . Nevertheless, the two years in Pisa were quite successful for Giuseppe Volpecina, he was a regular player and in this role also recommended himself for a longer employment at SSC Napoli.

Volpecina returned to Napoli in the summer of 1986 and found a completely different starting position than at his first real station there in 1979/80. In the meantime, the SSC had a very competitive team, which also included top international players such as the Argentinian Diego Maradona or the two Italians Andrea Carnevale and Bruno Giordano . Trained by Ottavio Bianchi , the Napoli team has seen a very positive development since Maradona's arrival in the summer of 1984 and has become a permanent force in the top regions of the Italian elite league. In the year before Giuseppe Volpecina's return, they had finished third behind Juventus Turin and AS Roma . In the 1986/87 season things went even better for Bianchi's team. From the beginning of the season they played for the championship lead, held it from the ninth matchday and finally secured the championship prematurely with a 1-1 draw against AC Florence on the penultimate matchday, the first in the club's history. Giuseppe Volpecina was involved in this to a large extent, he came to 25 missions in which he scored two goals (one in the 2-2 win against Atalanta Bergamo and one in the 3-1 away win at Juventus Turin). One month after winning the championship title, SSC Napoli also decided the final of the Coppa Italia 1986/87 against Atalanta Bergamo 3-0 and 1-0 for themselves, the double of the championship and the cup was now perfect.

Giuseppe Volpecina changed the club despite the success. He went to Hellas Verona , which two years earlier had become sensational Italian champions under Osvaldo Bagnoli . Also in 1987 Hellas Verona had a powerful team with players such as the Dane Preben Elkjær Larsen , the German Thomas Berthold or the Italian Antonio Di Gennaro , which, however, was unable to build on the old successes. In the two years that Volpecina defended in Verona , they finished tenth and eleventh. It was during this period that the big Hellas Verona team broke up. The club from the Lombardy province, financially not overpowering, had made it from the second division to the Italian champions and two-time cup finalists from 1981 to 1985. That period of success ended as quickly as it began. In 1990 they finally found themselves back in the second class. But at this point Giuseppe Volpecina was no longer in Verona. He had already gone to Fiorentina in the summer of 1989 .

With the Fiorentina , Volpecina had two seasons that went badly nationally and well internationally. In league operations, coach Francesco Graziani's team escaped relegation by just one point in the 1989/90 season , while in the same season in the UEFA Cup after successes against Atlético Madrid from Spain , FC Sochaux from France , Dynamo Kiev from Soviet Union , AJ Auxerre also from France and Werder Bremen from Germany reached the final and met league rivals Juventus Turin there. The first leg was lost 3-1 at the Stadio Communale in Turin . In addition to the negative result for the second leg, there was also the fact that the Fiorentine Stadio Artemio Franchi was still being renovated for the 1990 World Cup and Fiorentina could not play its actual home game there. Instead, they played in Stadio Partenio of Avellino , which was seen in 1990 his last more important game on that May 16 But the goalless draw in front of 30,000 spectators in Avellino was not enough for Fiorentina to defeat Juventus.

In the summer of 1991 Giuseppe Volpecina changed the club one last time and returned to where his footballing career had started, to the US Casertana. The provincial club, which had now made it up to Serie B, got down with Volpecina as a defender from this very same. After the end of Serie B in 1991/92, Giuseppe Volpecina ended his career at the age of 31. Then worked as a trainer and sports director for various amateur clubs in the Campania region.

successes

1986/87 with the SSC Napoli
1986/87 with the SSC Napoli
1985/86 with SC Pisa
1984/85 with SC Pisa
1978/79 with the SSC Napoli

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personal data
SURNAME Volpecina, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Caserta , Italy