Lauro Toneatto

Lauro Toneatto
Personnel
birthday	January 21, 1933
place of birth	Talmassons ,  Italy
date of death	May 13, 2010
Place of death	Siena ,  Italy
position	defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1955	FC Empoli	60 (0)
1955-1963	AC Siena	202 (3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964-1966	AC Siena
1966-1969	AS Bari
1969-1970	AC Pisa
1970-1972	AS Bari
1972-1975	US Foggia
1975-1976	AC Arezzo
1976-1988	Cagliari Calcio
1978-1979	SS Sambenedettese
1979-1980	Sampdoria Genoa
1980-1981	SC Pisa
1981-1982	AC Pistoiese
1982-1983	AS Taranto
1983-1984	AC Reggiana
1984-1985	AS Taranto
1985-1986	Ternana Calcio
1986-1988	AC Rondinella
1988-1989	AC Cynthia
1 Only league games are given.

Lauro Toneatto (born January 21, 1933 in Talmassons , † May 13, 2010 in Siena ) was an Italian football player and coach . As an active player, Toneatto later coached AS Bari , US Foggia and Cagliari Calcio, among others .

Player career

Lauro Toneatto was born on January 21, 1933 in Talmassons , a small town in the northern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia . However, he started playing football elsewhere, namely at the Tuscan club FC Empoli , at that time still far from being first and second class. The young defender played for FC Empoli, initially in his youth and later for two years from 1953 to 1955 in the first team. During this time Lauro Toneatto came to sixty appearances in the league for his employer.

In the summer of 1955, AC Siena signed him, where he spent the rest of his playing career. Toneatto played with Siena in the third- tier Serie C after Toneatto's first year at the club, they had successfully promoted to this league. From 1955 to 1963 Lauro Toneatto was a member of AC Siena for eight years, making a total of 202 league games. Toneatto scored three hits in these games. In 1963 he ended his footballing career at the age of thirty wearing the AC Siena jersey.

Coaching career

Lauro Toneatto began his coaching career at the club a year after he finished his career as an active footballer wearing the AC Siena jersey. From 1964 to 1966 he was initially responsible for the fate of AC Siena and achieved quite appealing placements in Serie C with his team in both years. In 1966 Toneatto took over the coaching position at the traditional club AS Bari , where he was in the Sequence worked for three years. In his very first season, the young coach led his team back to Serie B as the sovereign first of the Girone C series C with seven points ahead of the US Avellino . Once there, they immediately knew how to convince and immediately took fourth place in the second Italian football league. Bari was only one point short of third-placed AC Pisa and thus the last promotion place. After the first division promotion was only just missed in 1967/68, this venture succeeded a year later. In Serie B, Lauro Toneatto led his team to third place with one point ahead of AC Reggiana , which meant a narrow promotion to Serie A.

After the promotion with AS Bari, Lauro Toneatto surprisingly left the club to sign a new contract with AC Pisa. However, Pisa had just been relegated from Serie A, so Toneatto remained in Serie B despite athletic promotion with Bari. And his involvement with AC Pisa was short-lived. After only seventh place in Serie B in 1969/70, the club and trainer parted company after only one year. Toneatto returned to AS Bari, who had been relegated immediately after promotion, and remained there for the next two years coach. In the first year under the returnee on the dugout, Bari was again fourth in Serie B, only the lost direct comparison against the US Catanzaro prevented direct promotion. The following year, however, things went less well for Lauro Toneatto's Bari and they only reached eleventh place in the second division. As a result, the coach's contract in Bari was not renewed, he was replaced for the new season by Carlo Regalia.

Lauro Toneatto himself took over in the summer of 1972, succeeding Ettore Puricelli, as coach at US Foggia in Serie B. In the first year Toneatto succeeded in advancing to Serie A after finishing third in Serie B. A point ahead of Del Duca Ascoli saved the southern Italians at the end of the climb. During this time, the club management of the US Foggia was also active in the illegal area of ​​sport, the club was decisively involved in the so-called Scandalo della telefonata , which, among other things, condemned Hellas Verona to relegation. Foggia got six points deducted in Serie A 1973/74 and had to go straight back to the second division, even though the league would have been barely successful. Despite the direct relegation, the management of the US Foggia stuck to coach Lauro Toneatto. However, when this started weak in the second division season 1974/75, Toneatto was dismissed in early January 1975. The later national coach Cesare Maldini was the new trainer at US Foggia .

From 1975 to 1976 Lauro Toneatto was then coach of the third division AC Arezzo , but missed the return to Serie B. In the summer of 1976 Toneatto took over as coach of the Italian champions of 1970, Cagliari Calcio . The Sardinians were relegated to Serie B only six years after the sensational championship title and worked meticulously on the ascent again in the first year with Lauro Toneatto on the sidelines. This was unfortunately missed with fourth place in Serie B and the worse goal difference compared to Pescara Calcio 1976/77. The following year it went worse for Cagliari and coach Toneatto was released from his duties in the relegation battle for the half-season in January 1978. After seven game days of Serie B 1978/79, the SS Sambenedettese dismissed his trainer and installed Lauro Toneatto for the rest of the season. This led Sambenedettese to eleventh place and thus in the secured middle of the table. The following season took a similar career for Toneatto. This time he was hired as a firefighter after seven match days at Sampdoria Genoa and finally ended the season in seventh place, but he was unable to continue working. 1980/81 Toneatto was a second time coach in Pisa and reached the seventh place in Serie B. In the following season he looked after first division relegated AC Pistoiese and was fifteenth with the club in Serie B. This was followed by work at AS Taranto , at AC Reggiana or at Ternana Calcio , all of which, however, were short-lived and not very successful. After all, Lauro Toneatto had his last job as a football coach from 1988 to 1989 at AC Cynthia .

successes

• Promotion to Serie A : 2 ×

1968/69 with AS Bari

1972/73 with the US Foggia

• Promotion to Serie B : 1 ×

1966/67 with AS Bari

• Series D : 1 ×

1955/56 with AC Siena

Web links

• Information on the homepage of Foggia Calcio (Italian)
• Obituary for Lauro Toneatto (Italian)