Ilario Castagner

Ilario Castagner
Ilario Castagner in the AC Perugia jersey
Personnel
birthday	December 18, 1940
place of birth	Vittorio Veneto ,  Italy
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1960	AC Reggiana	9 0(2)
1960-1961	AC Legnano	23 0(5)
1961-1964	AC Perugia	84 (33)
1964-1967	AC Prato	83 (11)
1967-1969	Rimini Calcio	51 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1974-1980	AC Perugia
1980-1982	Lazio Rome
1982-1984	AC Milan
1984-1985	Inter Milan
1987-1988	Ascoli Calcio
1989	Pescara Calcio
1991	SC Pisa
1993-1994	AC Perugia
1998-1999	AC Perugia
1 Only league games are given.

Ilario Castagner (born December 18, 1940 in Vittorio Veneto , Veneto , Italy ) is a former Italian football player and later coach. As an active player in the jersey of AC Reggiana , AC Legnano , AC Perugia , AC Prato and Rimini Calcio , he later coached AC Milan , Inter Milan and Lazio Rome as well as AC Perugia, where he became Italian with the team from Perugia dei Miracoli in 1979 Became runner-up.

Player career

Ilario Castagner, born on December 18, 1940 in Vittorio Veneto, northern Italy, in the Veneto region , first played for AC Reggiana in Emilia-Romagna from 1959 , where he was under contract for a year and the club finished fifth in the second-rate Serie B. helped. After the missed promotion, Castagner, who had only made nine games for Reggiana in his first season, took an offer from AC Legnano , a traditional club that has now slipped into the third division. In his one season in Legnano , Ilario Castagner developed into a regular player and made 23 season games in Serie C 1960/61 and scored five goals when reaching ninth place in the table. Also in Serie C played at this time of AC Perugia , with which Ilario Castagner signed a contract in the summer of 1961. The attacker played for Perugia for three years in the third highest Italian football league and reached midfield positions. Overall, Castagner brought it in Perugia to 84 games with 33 goals.

After the 1963/64 season, Ilario Castagner left AC Perugia and joined AC Prato , who had just been relegated from Serie B. In Prato , Ilario Castagner became a regular and was used in 83 league games in three years. He got seventeen hits. From 1967 to 1968, Ilario Castagner had his last position as an active footballer, when he played for two years in the Rimini Calcio jersey and made another 51 league games in Serie C and scored 16 times the opposing goal. After the end of the season 1968/69 Ilario Castagner ended his active career as a football player and started a coaching career.

Coaching career

Il Perugia dei Miracoli

Ilario Castagner trained as a football coach in 1966. Three years later, at the age of 28, he became the assistant to Corrado Viciani , at the time coach of Atalanta Bergamo, and kept this post among Viciani's successors. Ilario Castagner gained experience in the first and second Italian football league in the following years. In the summer of 1974, Franco D'Attoma , the new president of the second division AC Perugia , made him an offer. Castagner accepted this and worked from then on for Perugia , where he once also acted as a player, in the coaching bench. In his first season, Castagner led AC Perugia to first place in Serie B 1974/75, which resulted in promotion to Serie A, the first in the club's history.

After promotion to Serie A, the AC Perugia team was able to establish itself there and achieved a respectable eighth place in the table in its first season, with victories against top teams such as Juventus Turin , AS Roma or AC Turin , which in the season 1975 / 76 became Italian champion again for the first time since 1949, caused a sensation. The 1976/77 Serie A was even more successful for Ilario Castagner and AC Perugia, when they finished sixth in the table at the end of the season, with participation in the UEFA Cup only two points missing from Lazio . The AC Perugia team finished seventh in the 1977/78 season . However, this season was overshadowed by the death of Perugia player Renato Curi , who collapsed in front of about 30,000 people in Perugia during the league game against Juventus Turin on October 30, 1977 and died a little later. In his honor, the AC Perugia stadium, previously called Stadio Pian di Massiano , was renamed Stadio Renato Curi .

The 1978/79 season began for AC Perugia with a 2-0 win over Lanerossi Vicenza . This victory was the start of eleven wins and nineteen draws in thirty Serie A league games 1978/79 , with which AC Perugia ended the season unbeaten and ended up in second place three points behind the new champions AC Milan . This unexpected success brought the AC Perugia team at the time, which included players like Salvatore Bagni and Michele Nappi , the nickname Il Perugia dei Miracoli and their coach Ilario Castagner the award of Italy's coach for the 1978/79 season. The achievement of surviving a whole season of Serie A without defeat came for the first time in Italian football by the team of Ilario Castagner and has only been achieved two more times to date. Fabio Capello's AC Milan team did not lose any of their 34 games in the 1991/92 championship season , while Antonio Conte's Juventus Turin managed 38 games in the 2011/12 season .

Second place in Serie A 1978/79 qualified AC Perugia to participate in the 1979/80 UEFA Cup . There Perugia defeated the Yugoslav representatives Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in Italy and 0-0 in Zagreb in the first round . Then they met in the second round on Aris Thessaloniki from Greece , against whom they reached a 1-1 draw in their Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium , but had to accept a 3-0 defeat at the home game in Perugia and were eliminated from the European Cup. Until 2003, this game was the last European Cup appearance of AC Perugia. In general, the 1979/80 season was not nearly as successful as the previous one. Even in the league, Perugia only took tenth place in the table. In the same year, the Totonero scandal , the first scandal in Italian football, in which AC Perugia was involved, became known. The club were deducted five points in Serie A for the 1980/81 season, and two Perugia players were suspended. It is not known to what extent Ilario Castagner's departure from Perugia in the summer of 1980 was related to the association's involvement in the Totonero scandal. In any case, the successful coach left the club and became the new coach of Lazio Rome, which was also involved in the scandal and had to be relegated to Serie B. The AC Perugia, meanwhile, rose in the first season after the departure of Ilario Castagner again in the second division. The return to Serie A was not possible until 1996.

Work at Lazio, Milan and Inter

In addition to AC Milan, Lazio was the main culprit in the Totonero scandal and, like Milan, had to be relegated to Serie B. This meant the end of the tenure of coach Roberto Lovati . Ilario Castagner was used as the new coach for the second division season 1980/81. This clearly had the goal of leading the Italian champions from 1975 back to the House of Lords, but failed on this task. This was followed by a total of three years in Serie B for the traditional club, of which Castagner was coach for two years before his successor Roberto Clagluna managed to rise again. Under Ilario Castagner, Lazio was only fourth in the 1980/81 Serie B season, two points behind third-placed AC Cesena , who rose to promotion alongside AC Milan and CFC Genoa . The following season also did not go according to the wishes of the Lazio bosses. In Serie B, Ilario Castagner's team did not get past eleventh place in the table, which meant Lazio's worst placement in Serie B at all. Coach Castagner was not employed beyond the season.

In 1982 Silvano Ramaccioni became the new manager of AC Milan. Ilario Castagner had already worked with Ramaccioni in Perugia and formed the famous Perugia dei Miracoli . Silvano Ramaccioni then brought Ilario Castagner to AC Milan as coach in the summer of 1982, after the club had just been relegated from the first division. Castagner led the AC Milan team, which at that time included players such as defender Franco Baresi , midfielder Alberigo Evani and Mauro Tassotti for a sovereign promotion to Serie A as the first in Serie B in 1982/83 with eight points ahead of Lazio Rome, which also rose again after three years. This time the AC Milan team showed good performances in Serie A even after being promoted again and they managed to stay in the table as eighth in the table, while the old rival Juventus Turin won the Scudetto .

After Serie A ended in 1983/84 , Ilario Castagner signed a contract with Inter Milan , the second important club in Milan . The Nerazzurri led Castagner to third place in Serie A 1984/85 , only behind surprise champions Hellas Verona and Torino Calcio . In the 1984/85 UEFA Cup , Castagner and Inter Milan were eliminated in the semi-finals when Spanish representatives Real Madrid proved too strong, despite Inter winning the first leg 2-0 at their Giuseppe Meazza stadium . However, the second leg in Madrid was lost 3-0. Previously, Castagner's team had already kicked Sportul Studențesc from Romania , the Glasgow Rangers from Scotland and the two German representatives Hamburger SV and 1. FC Köln from the tournament. Then came the failure in the round of the best four teams against Real Madrid, which in turn got the upper hand in the final against Videoton FC from Hungary . Inter Milan experienced a similar experience the following year, when they again lost to eventual winners Real Madrid in the semi-finals. However, Ilario Castagner did not see this semi-final game on the bench of Inter Milan. He was released after a miserable start to the 1985/86 season after the tenth game day and replaced by Mario Corso .

Further stations in his career

In the summer of 1987 Ilario Castagner was appointed as the new coach of the first division Ascoli Calcio . In his first season, he led the club from the brands , which had started as a newcomer in the season, to maintain the excellence. After all game days they occupied twelfth place in the table in the first Italian league with two points ahead of the first relegation place, which was occupied by US Avellino . Such successes were denied Castagner in the season 1988/89 . He was dismissed after a bad start to the season and acute risk of relegation in autumn 1988 and replaced by Eugenio Bersellini , once coach of Inter Milan, Torino Calcio and Sampdoria Genoa .

Then Ilario Castagner was almost a year without a job as a football coach. It was not until 1989 that he accepted an offer from Pescara Calcio , which was relegated to Serie B in the 1988/89 season. At Pescara, however, Ilario Castagner was not very successful and was dismissed in the same year and replaced by Edoardo Reja , today's coach of Lazio Rome, in his position. Even this could not prevent Pescara only ending up in midfield of Serie B and missing the promotion places by many points.

At the beginning of 1991, Ilario Castagner became the second coach of SC Pisa in the 1990/91 season of Serie A. He replaced Luca Giannini, who had previously been in charge of SC Pisa for two years and returned the club to the first division would have. But from the beginning of the season Pisa fought against relegation and dismissed Giannini during the season. But his successor, Ilario Castagner, could not bring about a significant increase in performance and was released a little later. However, Mauro Viviani, who is now the third coach of Pisa in the season, could not prevent relegation.

As a result, Ilario Castagner was unemployed for two years. It was not until 1995 that he became the new coach of his old club, AC Perugia, which had since fallen back into the third-class C1 series due to financial constraints . Castagner made it to Serie B with Perugia as first in the table in Serie C1 in Group B with seven points ahead of Reggina Calcio . Perugia's President Luciano Gaucci fired Castagner despite the rise. In the spring of 1998 Ilario Castagner was again active as a coach at the Stadio Renato Curi after Alberto Bigon was removed from his post after dissonances with Gaucci. This had already done a good job and established Perugia in the upper reaches of the series B. Ilario Castagners coached very successfully and helped the AC Perugia team to rise after successful playoff games against Torino Calcio. In the following Serie A season, Ilario Castagner succeeded with Perugia, where at the time the Japanese international Hidetoshi Nakata was under contract, the league in fourteenth, but he was dismissed during the season and by the former master coach of Sampdoria Genoa, Vujadin Boškov replaced. After his release in Perugia in early 1998, Ilario Castagner ended his coaching career. From 2005 to 2006 he worked as technical director at Perugia Calcio, which was newly founded after bankruptcy. He was also honorary president of the association for some time. Ilario Castagner also works today as a commentator on Italian television.

successes

• Italian champion : 0 ×

2nd place with AC Perugia 1978/79

• Series B champions : 1 ×

with AC Milan 1982/83

• Promotion to Serie A : 3 ×

with AC Perugia 1974/75, and 1997/98

with AC Milan 1982/83

• Italian coach of the year : 1 ×

1978/79

Web links

Commons : Ilario Castagner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ilario Castagner in the database of weltfussball.de
• About Castagner's Perugia
• Profile of his playing career
• Profile of his coaching career