Maino Neri

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Maino Neri
Personnel
birthday June 30, 1924
place of birth Carpi ,  Italy
date of death December 8, 1995
Place of death Modena ,  Italy
size 172 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1941-1951 Modena FC 313 (7)
1951-1955 Inter Milan 109 (0)
1955-1958 AC Brescia 80 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1948-1954 Italy 8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1964-1965 Modena FC
1966-1967 Lazio Rome
1969-1970 AC Como
1971-1972 AS Reggina
1973 US Lecce
1 Only league games are given.

Maino Neri (born June 30, 1924 in Carpi , † December 8, 1995 in Modena ) was an Italian football player and later coach . As an active participant in FC Modena , Inter Milan and AC Brescia as well as a participant in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland , he later coached Modena, Lazio and AC Como, among others .

Player career

Club career

Maino Neri was born on June 30, 1924 in the northern Italian city of Carpi , in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region . He began playing football in the provincial capital at FC Modena , where he was accepted into the first team in 1941 at the age of seventeen. As a result, Maino Neri, who was to be found in the position of defender, played for FC Modena for ten years until 1951 and made a total of 313 league games for the club, in which he scored seven goals. Neri spent his first season as a professional player in Serie A , but after the end of the 1941/42 season , FC Modena rose from bottom of the table with five points behind on the first non-relegation place. In the second division season 1942/43, the first place was taken and thus the direct return to Serie A ensured. However, the game in Italy paused due to the Second World War between 1943 and 1945, so that the revival of FC Modena was void for the time being. After the end of the war and when the game was resumed in 1945, FC Modena continued to play first class. The Serie A 1946/47 ended under coach Alfredo Mazzoni in third place and achieved the best result in the club's history. Sixth place the following year was also a very positive result. In Serie A 1948/49 , Modena ranked after the end of all game days only in nineteenth place and thus one point behind the first non- relegation place occupied by AS Bari , which resulted in the transition to the second division. There, the direct rise was missed by eight points against Udinese Calcio . Even in 1950/51 they missed the leap back to Serie A by being seven points behind AC Legnano .

In the summer of 1951 Maino Neri moved to Inter Milan in Serie A. At Internazionale , the defender played the following four years and made a total of 109 league games by 1955, in which he did not score. Maino Neri had his most successful time as a football player at Inter Milan. After third place in Serie A in 1951/52 , the club won the first Italian championship title since the end of the Second World War in 1952/53 . In Serie A, coach Alfredo Foni's team finished first with two points ahead of defending champion Juventus Turin . The following year, Inter, which had players such as striker István Nyers , midfielder Lennart Skoglund or defender Attilio Giovannini , was able to defend the title from the previous year, this time only one point ahead of their first rival Juventus. In Serie A 1954/55 , Neris last year at Inter Milan, the team was only eighth.

Maino Neri said goodbye to Milan in 1955 and moved to the second division club AC Brescia , where he spent the rest of his footballing career until 1958 and made a total of 80 league games with a goal for Brescia during this time. After a midfield rank in the first year you missed promotion in the 1956/57 season only very narrowly. Only the better goal difference entitled US Alessandria to promotion to Serie A, while AC Brescia remained in second class. In 1957/58 the ascent was clearly missed in ninth place. At the end of the 1957/58 season, the 34-year-old Maino Neri ended his career as an active soccer player.

National team

Between 1948 and 1954, Maino Neri played a total of eight international matches for the Italian national football team as a player at FC Modena and Inter Milan . Appointed by national coach Lajos Czeizler to the Italian squad for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . The Hungarian trainer of the Italians used him twice at the tournament. Neri completed the two games against Switzerland (final score: 1: 2) and Belgium (final score: 4: 1) in the defense of the Squadra Azzurra . However, he was missing in the decider for the single in the quarterfinals. Italy lost to the Swiss hosts 1: 4 and were eliminated after the preliminary round. Maino Neri did not make an international match after the World Cup in Switzerland.

Maino Neri had previously participated in two Olympic football tournaments with the Italian national football team. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , he was used twice, Italy advanced to the quarter-finals, where they lost to Denmark 3-5. Four years later in Helsinki the round of 16 was over. The so-called golden team from Hungary was defeated by Italy in the round of the last sixteen teams with 0: 3, Maino Neri was used in these Olympic Games in both tournament games of his team.

Coaching career

From 1959 Maino Neri worked again for Inter Milan, where he initially worked as a youth coach for a year. Under head coach Helenio Herrera , Neri became assistant coach of the first team at Inter Milan in 1960 and subsequently held this position until 1964. In this role he experienced the first major successes of the so-called Grande Inter . After winning the Serie A title in 1962/63 , the team around players like attacker Luis Suárez , the great captain Armando Picchi or defender Giacinto Facchetti reached the final of the European Cup after successes over FC Everton , AS Monaco , Partizan Belgrade and Borussia Dortmund the national champion 1963/64 . In Vienna they beat Real Madrid 2-0 and won the first European Cup in club history for Inter Milan.

After this title win, Maino Neri left Inter Milan and became head coach at his hometown club FC Modena, which had just been relegated from Serie A. In Serie B 1964/65, however, the direct re-emergence was clearly missed as eighth. A little later, the start of the following second division season failed, so that the paths of coach and club parted again after seven game days of Serie B in 1965/66. Neri took over the vacant coaching post at Lazio Rome after eight game days of Serie A in 1966/67 . With the capital club, he rose at the end of the season by a deficit of one point on the AC Brescia occupied saving bank from the first division, whereupon the employment relationship ended. In the 1969/70 season Neri coached the second division AC Como , with whom he finished the season in thirteenth place. From 1971 to 1972 he coached AS Reggina and led the club to close relegation to Serie B. His last coaching position was in 1973 for a short time with US Lecce .

successes

1952/53 and 1953/54 with Inter Milan
1942/43 with FC Modena

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personal data
SURNAME Neri, Maino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Carpi (Province of Modena) , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1995
Place of death Modena , Italy