Luigi Radice

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Luigi Radice
Luigi Radice 1962.jpg
Luigi Radice 1962/63
in the AC Milan jersey
Personnel
birthday January 15, 1935
place of birth Cesano Maderno ,  Italy
date of death 7th December 2018
size 173 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
AC Milan
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1959 AC Milan 20 (0)
1959-1960 US Triestina 31 (0)
1960-1961 Calcio Padova 24 (0)
1961-1965 AC Milan 53 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1961-1963 Italy 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1969-1970 AC Monza Brianza
1970-1972 FBC Treviso
1972-1973 AC Cesena
1973-1974 AC Florence
1975 Cagliari Calcio
1975-1980 Torino Calcio
1980-1981 Bologna FC
1981-1982 AC Milan
1982-1983 AS Bari
1983-1984 Inter Milan
1984-1989 Torino Calcio
1989-1990 AS Roma
1990-1991 Bologna FC
1991-1993 AC Florence
1993 Cagliari Calcio
1995-1996 CFC genoa
1996-1998 AC Monza Brianza
1 Only league games are given.

Luigi "Gigi" Radice (born January 15, 1935 in Cesano Maderno ; † December 7, 2018 ) was an Italian football player and later coach .

He was active as a player for AC Milan , among others , took part in the 1962 World Cup with the national team of his home country and later embarked on a successful career as a coach, during which he worked, for example, for the teams of Torino Calcio , which he was the first Championship had led since the end of Grande Torino , who was responsible for Fiorentina and Inter Milan .

Player career

Club career

Luigi Radice, born on January 15, 1935 in Cesano Maderno , a northern Italian municipality in the province of Monza and Brianza in Lombardy , began playing football at AC Milan in the Lombard fashion metropolis. At Milan Radice first went through the youth departments from 1953 to 1954 and was accepted into the professional team in 1955. There he played with international football greats of the time such as the Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl , the Uruguayan world champion from 1950 , Juan Schiaffino and the Italian defender Cesare Maldini , but at the beginning of his time at AC Milan he was rarely used. In four seasons Luigi Radice only made twenty appearances in the Rossoneri jersey and was therefore only indirectly involved in two championships of the club. In the Serie A 1956/57 they took first place with six points ahead of Fiorentina . After the championship title had to be surrendered to Juventus Turin in 1957/58 , it was enough for Luigi Radice's second championship at AC Milan in the 1958/59 season , when they took the top position in Serie A after all match days with three points ahead of Fiorentina occupied.

After the end of the 1958/59 season, Luigi Radice was loaned to the US Triestina . At the then Serie B club he became a regular player and helped the northern Italian football club to reach fourth place in the table, just one point behind third-placed Catania Calcio , who was allowed to rise. Radice, who acted on the position of a defender, came in the second division season to 31 games, a goal he did not succeed. After the end of the season he returned to Milan , but was immediately awarded again, this time the Calcio Padova secured the services of Radice. With 24 league games in Serie A in 1960/61 , he played a major role in the fact that Padua achieved one of its best placings in Serie A with sixth place.

For the 1961/62 season , Luigi Radice stayed at AC Milan and had a very successful season with the Milanese, which ended with winning the Italian football championship with a first place with five points ahead of local rivals Inter Milan , where Radice made 28 appearances, more than from 1955 to 1959 in four years. With the championship title in 1962, AC Milan was eligible to compete in the 1962/63 European Cup . At the tournament they prevailed against Ipswich Town , Galatasaray Istanbul and FC Dundee and met in the final against Benfica Lisbon for the young Eusébio . Despite an early opening goal by the same, AC Milan managed to turn the game around in the person of two-time goalscorer José Altafini and won 2-1. A little later they took part in the game for the World Cup, but lost to FC Santos with Pelé after a play-off with 0: 1. Luigi Radice was not used in either the European Cup final or the World Cup game, and overall the number of his appearances in the 1962/63 season decreased compared to the previous year. 1963/64 he did not come to a single game in the league, 1964/65 to two such. After the end of the 1964/65 season, Luigi Radice ended his active football career at the age of thirty.

National team

Between 1961 and 1963, Luigi Radice made five international matches in the Italian national football team . He was appointed to the Italian squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile by the two national coaches Paolo Mazza and Giovanni Ferrari . At the tournament Radice was used in two games. In the first group game, a goalless draw against the German national team , Radice was part of Italy's defense, which did not allow a goal. In the scandalous second round match against hosts Chile , also known as the Battle of Santiago because of the great hardship on both sides on the lawn of the national stadium in Santiago de Chile , he was not used, the Italian team lost 2-0 thanks to a less than confident team Performance by referee Ken Aston . The third and last game of Italy at this World Cup was experienced by Luigi Radice again on the field, against Switzerland they won 3-0, but the progress was not achieved.

Coaching career

Beginning in Monza, Treviso and Cesena

Four years after the end of his active football career, Luigi Radice began working as a coach. From 1969 to 1970 he initially held the office of coach at AC Monza Brianza , a club from Radice's homeland. In the second division season 1969/70 he led the club to reach fifth place in the table, just three points behind the third promoted Catania Calcio. Despite the success, Radice was no longer employed in Monza and in the summer of 1970 he became the coach of FBC Treviso in Italy's third-highest division, the then single-track Serie C. In his first season in Treviso he came with the team in ninth place in the Girona A, in the second season you had in the series D dismount.

Nevertheless, Luigi Radice then received an offer from the second division AC Cesena , which he also accepted and henceforth coached the club from the Emilia-Romagna region . With Cesena , who was sixth in Serie B in 1971/72, Radice managed the surprise and rose to Serie A with Cesena for the first time in their club's history. In Series B 1972/73, a second place, just four points behind CFC Genoa , tied with third US Foggia and one point ahead of Ascoli Calcio , the first non-promoted, was occupied. Luigi Radice did not stay with the club after promotion to AC Cesena, he received a request from AC Florence for the 1973/74 season and took over the Fiorentina team the following season.

Via Florence and Cagliari to Torino

Luigi Radice's first season in Serie A went well. With Fiorentina, ranked fourth in the preseason at the end, he finished sixth in the 1973/74 season and missed out on the 1974/75 UEFA Cup due to a one-point gap with Turin . With fourth place in Serie A in 1972/73 , Fiorentina took part in the 1973/74 season in the UEFA Cup, the predecessor of today's UEFA Europa League , and was absolutely unable to convince there. Already in the first round came the end against the Romanian representative FC Universitatea Craiova . After playing goalless 0-0 in Florence, Fiorentina lost 1-0 in Romania and lost, like all Italian clubs in this competition with the exception of Lazio Rome , which defeated FC Sion from Switzerland and in the second round at Ipswich Town failed.

The 1973/74 season did not generally go according to the wishes of the ACF Fiorentina management team and Luigi Radice was no longer employed. He waited until 1975 for a new job before Cagliari Calcio hired him to succeed the dismissed Giuseppe Chiappella . With a series of draws against bigger clubs like AC Milan, Sampdoria Genoa and the reigning champions Lazio Rome as well as important victories against the direct competition in the fight against relegation to Serie B, Radice succeeded with Cagliari five years after the sensational win of the Italian championship Relegation, only in 1975/76 did you have to go into the second division. But at this time Luigi Radice was no longer active in Sardinia , he signed a contract with AC Turin in the summer of 1975.

Surprise success with AC Turin

In the 1970s, AC Turin had transformed into a long-term, unsuccessful traditional club. Since the Superga plane crash and the death of all the players in Grande Torino , the famous AC Turin team that played a dominant role in Italian football in the 1940s, the club has not won the championship again and has even been relegated to the series B accept. The only important title achieved in 1968 and 1971 was the Coppa Italia . However, in the league, AC Turin was not too convincing, they made it into the UEFA Cup a few times, but most seasons ended in midfield of Serie A.

After AC Turin had finished sixth in Serie A in 1974/75 and thus only missed qualifying for the 1975/76 UEFA Cup by one point against AC Milan, Luigi Radice was signed for the new season as coach. He led the team around players like Renato Zaccarelli , Paolino Pulici and Francesco Graziani to win the Italian championship - the first for the club in 26 years. This title win was achieved by a first place in the table with two points ahead of local rivals Juventus Turin , which they defeated both in the domestic Stadio Filadelfia and in the away game in the Stadio Olimpico 2-0. Overall, the AC Turin team in the 1974/75 season also had the best attack of the season with 49 goals and the best defense with 22 goals conceded, and Paolino Pulici was the best goalscorer in the league by a large margin. With the championship of 1975, AC Turin was eligible to compete in the 1975/76 European Champion Clubs' Cup . There the second round could be reached after the Swedish representative Malmö FF could be defeated in the first round . One round later, however, came out against Borussia Mönchengladbach from Germany , which should only fail in the final at Liverpool FC . In the league, the 1975/76 season was almost as successful for AC Turin as the previous one. They only lost one point to Juventus Turin and came in second after thirty matchdays. Again, AC Turin had the best attack and the best defense and had not suffered a single home defeat during the entire season. The 1-0 defeat at AS Roma was the only defeat in the 1975/76 season.

In summer 1977 the club was renamed Torino Calcio . Under the new name, similar successes were initially achieved as before, reaching the third round of the 1977/78 UEFA Cup , where the SEC Bastia was too big a hurdle. The 1977-78 Serie A has been Ranking third behind Juventus and advanced Lanerossi Vicenza satisfactorily completed. The following year, Torino finished sixth in the table at the end of all game days, and in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup they failed in the first round to Sporting Gijón from Spain . In the same round of play came in the 1979/80 season , the last of Luigi Radice as coach of the Torino Calcio, the end in international competition when VfB Stuttgart proved to be too strong. The 1979/80 Serie A ended Radice with Torino in third place, which in turn resulted in promotion for the UEFA Cup. After the end of the 1979/80 season, Luigi Radice did not extend his engagement with Torino Calcio and went to Bologna FC .

Little success and return to Turin

At FC Bologna, Luigi Radice could not build on the successes from times at AC Turin. With the club from the university town in Emilia-Romagna he was seventh in Serie A in 1980/81 and missed participation in the international competition. For the 1981/82 season he was replaced by Tarcisio Burgnich , former world class defender in the Italian national soccer team and at Inter Milan and vice world champion in 1970. Luigi Radice was soon signed by AC Milan, of which he was already a player. Milan was currently in a crisis that had ended in forced relegation to Serie B due to a betting scandal in 1980 in which the club was involved. In the second division season 1980/81, however, they managed to get promoted again. After Italo Galbiati resigned in June 1981, Luigi Radice took over the coaching position at the multiple champions and had the task of bringing the traditional club back into the top tier of Serie A. But this project failed and you found yourself in the relegation battle from the start. After 23 matchdays, Luigi Radice was fired for failure and replaced by his own predecessor Galbiati, who acted as a transition coach. But even after Ilario Castagner was hired in January 1982, relegation to Serie B could not be prevented, and the new coach was only aiming for another victory.

After his release from AC Milan, Luigi Radice was unemployed for a few months before he stepped in at the beginning of 1983 at the relegation-threatened second division club AS Bari . However, he could not save the former first division club from relegation to Serie C1 and said goodbye to Calabria after the end of the 1982/83 season . Despite this failure, Radice received an offer from Inter Milan in 1983, which he also accepted. Internazionale came fourth with Luigi Radice as coach in Serie A 1983/84 , qualifying for the UEFA Cup 1984/85 , by the way, only two points ahead of Torino Calcio, which Luigi Radice won for the 1984/84 season. 85 reconnected.

Until 1989, Luigi Radice was again responsible for the sporting success at Torino Calcio. Right at the start of his tenure, he was again Italian runner-up with Torino, while Hellas Verona , trained by Osvaldo Bagnoli , surprisingly crowned themselves champions. But in the following years the performance of the Turinese deteriorated visibly. After reaching the UEFA Cup in 1986/87 , they had to be content with ninth place the following year. After a small upswing in the 1987/88 season , when they finished seventh and only missed qualifying for the 1988/89 UEFA Cup on penalties against Juventus, relegation from the first division followed in 1989 with fifteenth place. Luigi Radice was relieved of his duties at the beginning of 1989 due to the acute risk of relegation and replaced by Claudio Sala , once a player in Radice himself during his first term in Turin and champion from 1975, who was soon dismissed. However, the descent could not be prevented.

Further stations in Rome and Florence

After the Swede Nils Liedholm had stopped at AS Roma at the end of the 1988/89 season, the Romans signed Luigi Radice as the new coach of the first team. The team around world stars like the German Rudi Völler , his compatriot Thomas Berthold or the Italian Bruno Conti was led to sixth place in the 1989/90 Serie A table by the new coach , which meant qualifying for the UEFA Cup. However, the powerful of AS Roma were not satisfied with this and did not extend Radice's contract. He took over the post of coach at FC Bologna for the 1990/91 season , with whom he started in the 1990/91 UEFA Cup . It was only in the quarter-finals that the tournament ended against the Portuguese representative Sporting Lisbon , after Bologna had previously defeated Zagłębie Lubin from Poland , Heart of Midlothian from Scotland and FC Admira Wacker Mödling from Austria . In the 1990/91 league operation, however, the season was much less good. At the end of the season, FC Bologna was bottom of the table with just four wins and had to move into the second division. Luigi Radice was dismissed during the relegation season and by Luigi Maifredi , who could not prevent relegation.

In the summer of 1991, AC Florence signed Luigi Radice as the successor to the Brazilian Sebastião Lazaroni , who had previously looked after the club for two years. With Radice as coach, the Fiorentina had to accept relegation to Serie B in Serie A in 1992/93 after a twelfth place in the table was occupied the previous year. After fourteen match days of the 1992/93 season , Luigi Radice was dismissed at Fiorentina and replaced by Aldo Agroppi . After about a year without a job, Radice became coach of Cagliari Calcio in the fall of 1993 , where Carlo Mazzone had lost his job. He was only the coach of Cagliari for a short time, and in 1993 Bruno Giorgi succeeded him in Sardinia. As a result, Luigi Radice was unemployed for two years, only in 1995 he took over the coaching position at CFC Genoa . During the second division season 1995/96 he was released, his successor was Gaetano Salvemini. From 1996 to 1998 Radice was then responsible for AC Monza Brianza , where he began his coaching career more than thirty years ago. In 1998, Luigi Radice ended his career as a football coach.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

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personal data
SURNAME Radice, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radice, Gigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cesano Maderno , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 2018