Luigi Martini

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Luigi Martini
Personnel
birthday June 15, 1949
place of birth Capannori ,  Italy
size 178 cm
position defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1968 US Lucchese Libertas 30 (0)
1968-1969 AC Siena 34 (2)
1969-1971 AS Livorno 55 (1)
1971-1979 Lazio Rome 203 (8)
1979 Chicago Sting 7 (0)
1981 Toronto Blizzard 14 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974 Italy 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Luigi Martini (born June 15, 1949 in Capannori ) is a former Italian football player . He was part of the championship team of Lazio in the 1973/74 season and continued to play for AC Siena and AS Livorno .

Career

Luigi Martini, born on June 15, 1949 in the Tuscan municipality of Capannori , began playing football in the nearby provincial capital Lucca at the local AS Lucchese Libertas . Here, the defender went through first the youth departments and debuted in 1966 finally in the first team, then in the fourth division Serie D settled. In Lucca Luigi Martini was under contract for two years and made thirty league games for the club by 1968, a goal he did not succeed here.

In 1968 he moved to AC Siena , which at the time was at least one league higher than Lucchese. Martini played football in Siena for a year and made 34 league games that resulted in two goals. He then went to AS Livorno in the Serie B . In two years with the traditional club, Luigi Martini and his team finished ninth in the second highest Italian division and once in fourteenth place.

In 1971, Luigi Martini joined Lazio Rome , which had just been relegated from Serie A to Serie B. Under coach Tommaso Maestrelli , Lazio immediately rose again, while Luigi Martini developed into a regular in the club's most successful team to date. After returning to the top class, the team established itself around players such as star striker Giorgio Chinaglia , midfielder Luciano Re Cecconi or Libero Giuseppe Wilson in the Serie A championship race. A year later, in Serie A 1973/74 , Lazio could improve again. With two points ahead of Juventus Turin , the Romans were in first place in Serie A after the end of all match days, which meant winning the Italian football championship for the first time in the club's history. But after winning the title, Lazio's first wedding ended as quickly as it began. After fourth place was occupied in 1974/75 , Lazio then slipped into the relegation regions. Coach Maestrelli died of cancer in 1976, midfield motor Re Cecconi was shot a few weeks later, and Chinaglia had left the club for the United States the previous summer . Luigi Martini, however, stayed with Lazio until 1979. He completed a total of 203 league games for his employer, in which he scored eight goals. In the year after the departure of Martinis, Lazios first division time ended, you had to go back to Serie B after nine years.

Luigi Martini joined Chicago Sting in the USA in 1979 when he finished his career . There and in 1981 at Toronto Blizzard , Martini ended his footballing career in the early 1980s. He later became a politician and represented the national conservative Alleanza Nazionale from 1996 to 2006 in the Camera dei deputati .

successes

1973/74 with Lazio Rome

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personal data
SURNAME Martini, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Capannori , Italy