Luciano Castellini

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Luciano Castellini
Luciano Castellini.jpg
circa 1977
Personnel
birthday December 12, 1945
place of birth Milan ,  Italy
size 180 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
AC Monza Brianza
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1970 AC Monza Brianza 60 (0)
1970-1988 AC Turin 201 (0)
1978-1985 SSC Naples 202 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977 Italy 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997 Inter Milan
1999 Inter Milan
1 Only league games are given.

Luciano Castellini (born December 12, 1945 in Milan , Italy ) is a former Italian football player and later coach .

As an active player, Castellini won the championship and cup with AC Turin and also took part in the 1974 World Cup in Germany . He later became a goalkeeping coach and coached the Inter Milan first division twice on an interim basis .

Along with Giancarlo De Sisti and Ciro Ferrara , he is one of only three players who have managed to play more than 200 league games in Serie A with two different clubs.

Player career

Club career

Luciano Castellini, born in 1945 in the northern Italian metropolis of Milan , began playing football in the Lombardy province at AC Monza Brianza . There he first attended the youth department from 1960 to 1965 before he was accepted into the first team in the last year. As a result, the goalkeeper was in the box of Monza Brianza until 1970, during which time he completed sixty league games in the second and third Italian football leagues. Castellini knew how to convince with his performances and attracted the interest of Italy's top clubs. In the summer of 1970 he received an offer from the first division club AC Turin , which he also accepted.

From 1970 to 1978, Luciano Castellini was in goal in 201 league games for Torino . In his first season as the Turin goalkeeper, Castellini won the Coppa Italia , the Italian soccer cup, as a regular player . In the decisive final round match, AC Milan were defeated 5-3 on penalties after they had been goalless at the end of regular time and after the end of extra time. Even in league operations they showed themselves to be quite successful in those years. After a few placements in the top third of the table and after a few times the championship title was narrowly missed, AC Turin achieved great success in the 1975/76 season . For the first time since the Superga plane crash in 1949 and the associated end of the Grande Torino , the club won the Italian football championship. With coach Luigi Radice and players such as Paolino Pulici , Francesco Graziani and Renato Zaccarelli , AC Turin finished first in Serie A with a two-point lead over local rivals Juventus Turin . Starting the following season as the defending champion, the success was almost repeated, in the end one point was missing for the renewed championship, which this time Juventus won. The 1976/77 season was also the last of Luciano Castellini as regular goalkeeper of the club, which has now been renamed Torino Calcio . In the following season he came to only fourteen missions. After losing his regular place, Castellini left Torino Calcio and moved to SSC Napoli in the summer of 1978 .

At Napoli , Luciano Castellini was in goal in 202 Serie A league games until 1985. In league operations, with a few exceptions, placements in the upper midfield or even near the top of the table were achieved. However, title wins remained in both the league and the cup. The sporting wedding of SSC Napoli in the years of Diego Maradona in the late 1980s was no longer seen by Castellini in the club's jersey. He ended his long career in 1985 at the age of forty, during which he made more than 450 league games in the top three Italian divisions.

National team

Due to his good performance in the goal of Torino Calcio and later the SSC Napoli, Luciano Castellini also came into the focus of the Italian national coach. However, he never made the leap to number 1, as he could not really prevail against the three great Italian goalkeepers of the time, first Enrico Albertosi , then Dino Zoff and finally Walter Zenga . So it brought Castellini only to a single use in the national team, which he spent on January 26, 1977 in a 2-1 win in a friendly against Belgium in Rome .

Without Castellini having previously played an international match, national coach Ferruccio Valcareggi nominated him for the 1974 World Cup in Germany , where he only came as the third goalkeeper behind Zoff and Albertosi and was not used. However, the Italian team failed in the preliminary round as third in Group 4 behind Poland and Argentina and ahead of World Cup newcomers Haiti .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player, Luciano Castellini worked for many years as a goalkeeping coach for the renowned club Inter Milan . After the Englishman Roy Hodgson was dismissed in May 1997 shortly after the lost UEFA Cup final against FC Schalke 04 , Internazionale appointed the previous goalkeeping coach Luciano Castellini as his interim successor. In the last two games of the season, a win and a draw were achieved, Inter ended the season with Castellini as coach in third place. Castellini was not taken on as coach for the new season, Inter signed Luigi Simoni for this position. His successor Mircea Lucescu was dismissed in 1999 and Luciano Castellini took over again as interim coach. After four league games on the bench by Inter, Castellini was replaced by Hodgson and continued to work as a goalkeeping coach.

successes

1975/76 with AC Turin
1970/71 with AC Turin

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personal data
SURNAME Castellini, Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy