Gustavo Giagnoni

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Gustavo Giagnoni
Personnel
birthday March 23, 1932
place of birth Olbia ,  Italy
date of death 7th August 2018
size 174 cm
position defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1955 US Olbia
1955-1957 AC Reggiana 12 0(0)
1957-1964 Ozo Mantova 200 (32)
1964-1965 AC Reggiana 37 0(1)
1965-1968 AC Mantova 95 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1969-1971 AC Mantova
1971-1974 AC Turin
1974-1975 AC Milan
1976-1977 Bologna FC
1977-1988 AS Roma
1979-1980 Pescara Calcio
1980-1981 Udinese Calcio
1981-1982 AC Perugia
1982-1983 Cagliari Calcio
1983-1984 SSC Palermo
1986-1987 Cagliari Calcio
1990-1992 US Cremonese
1992-1993 AC Mantova
1 Only league games are given.

Gustavo Giagnoni (born March 23, 1932 in Olbia ; † August 7, 2018 ) was an Italian football player and coach . As a player Giagnoni was mainly active at AC Mantova , later he coached beside Mantova, among others, AC Turin , AC Milan and AS Roma .

Player career

Gustavo Giagnoni began his football career at the local club US Olbia , where he first played in the youth and then from 1954 to 1955 in the first team. In 1955 he moved to AC Reggiana in the IV series, then the fourth highest Italian football league. After the championship in this division was successful in the first year, Giagnoni acted third class for the AC Reggiana the following year. However, he was not a regular at the club and so only made twelve appearances in two years in the league.

In 1957 Gustavo Giagnoni joined AC Ozo Mantova , which was on the upswing thanks to the financial support of a potent sponsor. In his first season in Mantua , Giagnoni and his team were promoted to Serie C after finishing first in Girone B in the fourth division. Once in the third division, Ozo Mantova's advance continued smoothly. At the end of the season we won the first place of the Girone A, level on points but with a superior goal difference compared to the AC Siena , and got into the series B on. Also in the second highest division Giagnoni caused a sensation with Ozo Mantova, as a newcomer they immediately finished fifth in 1959/60 and missed the third ascent in a row by only eight points over CC Catania . In the second season second division finally succeeded for the first time in club history with the later Italian coach Edmondo Fabbri promotion to the Serie A . This was preceded by a second place in the Serie B 1960/61 , only behind AC Venice . The defender Giagnoni was also there when Ozo Mantova in his Serie A debut in 1961/62 took a surprising ninth place in the table and was nine points ahead of the first relegation rank. Back then with players like the Swiss Anton Allemann , the Brazilian Angelo Sormani or goalkeeper William Negri , this is still the best result that the club , which has now been renamed Mantova FC , has ever achieved in Serie A. Also in 1962/63 and 1963/64 under the new coach Nándor Hidegkuti with places twelve and thirteen of the league could be achieved.

After 200 league games and 32 goals for Ozo Mantova, Gustavo Giagnoni moved back to AC Reggiana for a year in the summer of 1964, which now played second-rate. When reaching eleventh place in Serie B 1964/65 Giagnoni contributed 37 missions and scored one goal. Then the defender returned to Mantua, which had just been relegated from Serie A. As third in the Serie B 1965/66 managed the direct return to the first class under coach Giancarlo Cadè . However, the oil company Ozo, which was partly responsible for the growing sporting success of the Mantua club with strong cash benefits, had already withdrawn at the beginning of the 1960s, which reduced the financial possibilities of the club, now called AC Mantova . Nevertheless, with another ninth place, the relegation succeeded in the Serie A 1966/67 . After the end of the 1967/68 season , the club slipped from bottom of the table in the second division. After this relegation, Gustavo Giagnoni ended his football career at the age of 36. Previously, he had played a total of 295 league games for AC Mantova and is still third in the ranking of the players with the most appearances for the club, behind Manuel Spinale and Mirko Bellodi .

Coaching career

After the end of his career as an active soccer player, Gustavo Giagnoni was initially assistant to Umberto Mannocci at his old club AC Mantova for a few months before he succeeded him as head coach in January 1969. With Giagnoni as coach, relegation was still achieved in Serie B 1968/69 . In the following year , the performances of AC Mantova were considerably better and the season was finished in fourth place, just one point behind the third promoted CC Catania . The Serie B 1970/71 finished Mantova under coach Giagnoni in first place before Atalanta Bergamo and the US Catanzaro , which entitled to promotion to Serie A. To date, this is AC Mantova's last ascent into the first Italian football league.

Giagnoni succeeded Giancarlo Cadè at AC Turin in the summer of 1971 and worked in this position until 1974. In the very first year he took third place, just one point behind the new Italian champions Juventus Turin . In the two following years they occupied the sixth and fifth place in the table. After twenty match days in Serie A 1973/74 Gustavo Giagnoni was dismissed and replaced by Edmondo Fabbri . A few months later he took over the vacant coaching position at AC Milan , but was only able to lead the club to fifth place in Serie A. In the same year they reached the final of the Coppa Italia , where they lost 3-2 to AC Florence . At the end of the season, the club and coach separated again and Gustavo Giagnoni took a year off from the league. For the 1976/77 season , FC Bologna introduced him as the successor to Bruno Pesaola . Since the relegation only just succeeded, the club separated again from Giagnoni. From 1977 to 1978 he was active as a coach of AS Roma . After the first of the two seasons was finished in eighth place with a midfield rank, the Roma 1978/79 was in a relegation battle until the end of the season, where they could just assert themselves at the end. Gustavo Giagnoni was sacked after just six match days, his successor was Ferruccio Valcareggi .

From 1979 onwards, Giagnoni's years of relatively short engagements began with both first and second division clubs. Pescara Calcio he could not lead to relegation in Serie A 1979/80 , the team finished last with just sixteen points. The activity at Udinese Calcio from 1980 to 1981 ended with twelfth place and the close relegation due to the better goal difference compared to Brescia Calcio . In the first division relegated AC Perugia Gustavo Giagnoni was the new coach in the summer of 1981 and missed the direct re-promotion with the club. In the 1982/83 season Giagnoni worked for the first division club Cagliari Calcio . At the end of the season, a point behind the first non-relegation place had to go into Serie B, whereupon the club and coach separated. In 1983/84 the next relegation followed with SSC Palermo , this time from Serie B to Serie C1 .

It was not until 1986 that Gustavo Giagnoni returned to a coaching bench. With Cagliari Calcio, he had to accept relegation from Serie B again, but also due to a point deduction. After eight game days of Serie B 1990/91 Gustavo Giagnoni succeeded Tarcisio Burgnich at the US Cremonese and surprisingly led the team to promotion to Serie A at the end of the season. There, however, they had to accept direct relegation with only twenty points scored. In the summer of 1992 Giagnoni returned to AC Mantova, who now played in the fourth-rate series C2 . As technical director, he was once again involved in the team's promotion to Serie C1. After that he didn't work as a trainer again.

successes

As a player

1960/61 and 1965/66 with AC Mantova
1958/59 with Ozo Mantova
1957/58 with Ozo Mantova
  • IV series: 1 ×
1955/56 with AC Reggiana

As a trainer

1970/71 with AC Mantova
1990/91 with the US Cremonese
1992/93 with AC Mantova

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personal data
SURNAME Giagnoni, Gustavo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Olbia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2018