Manlio Scopigno

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Manlio Scopigno
Personnel
birthday November 20, 1925
place of birth Paularo ,  Italy
date of death September 25, 1993
Place of death Rieti ,  Italy
position defense
Juniors
Years station
FC Rieti
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1948 FC Rieti
1948-1951 US Salernitana 87 (8)
1951-1953 AC Napoli 7 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1961-1965 Lanerossi Vicenza
1965-1966 Bologna FC
1966-1967 US Cagliari
1968-1972 US Cagliari
1973 AS Roma
1975-1976 Lanerossi Vicenza
1 Only league games are given.

Manlio Scopigno (born November 20, 1925 in Paularo, Italy , † September 25, 1993 in Rieti , Italy) was an Italian football player and later coach. As a player little in appearance, Scopigno led the team from US Cagliari in 1970 to win the Italian championship. In addition to Cagliari, he also coached Lanerossi Vicenza in two terms, FC Bologna and AS Roma .

Player career

Manlio Scopigno was born on November 20, 1925 in Paularo, a town in the northern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia near Udine . When his father, a forester, was offered a job in the city of Rieti in Lazio , Manlio Scopigno moved with his parents to Rieti as a child. There he also began playing football and first went through the youth departments of the local club, FC Rieti. He was accepted into the first team of the then third division team in 1946 at the age of 21 and then played football for the provincial club for two years until 1948.

In the summer of 1948 he left Rieti and went to Salerno in the Campania region . At US Salernitana , which had just been relegated from Serie A , Manlio Scopigno kicked for three years until 1951 and made 87 league games for Salernitana in that time, in which the defender scored eight goals. After 1948/49, Scopignos first season in Salerno, the direct promotion to the first division was just missed fourth place in Serie B, the team of US Salernitana always reached in the next two years only placements in the middle of the series B , the Ranks of promotion were a long way off. After the end of Serie B in 1950/51 Manlio Scopigno moved to AC Napoli and played in Napoli for two years in Serie A football. However, he was rarely used at Napoli and only came to seven missions in two years. Nevertheless, he was involved in reaching sixth place in the table in the 1951/52 season and fourth in the 1952/53 season . Then he ended his active career as a football player at the age of 30.

Coaching career

Beginning with Lanerossi Vicenza

For the 1961/62 season , Manlio Scopigno was the new coach at Lanerossi Vicenza, succeeding Roberto Lerici . In his first season as a coach, Scopigno finished fourteenth in Serie A with Vicenza , which at the time was capable of great sporting achievements thanks to the financial support of the Lanerossi company . Things went better for the team in the following 1962/63 season , when they were in seventh place at the end of all game days. Among other things, Lanerossi Vicenza managed under Scopigno in the season 1962/63 victories over teams such as AC Florence , AC Milan and AS Roma . The 1963/64 season was similarly positive for Manlio Scopigno and Lanerossi Vicenza. They finished sixth in Serie A, which was the best placement of Lanerossi Vicenza in their first division history up to that point in time. With two points behind the fifth Juventus Turin , the Scopignos team missed qualifying for the Messestädte-Pokal , the predecessor of the UEFA Cup , by only two points . Manlio Scopigno's last season as the responsible coach of Lanerossi Vicenza ended with the narrow non-relegation. In the final ranking, they only managed to place them in twelfth place, two points ahead of the first relegated CFC Genoa .

After the end of the 1964/65 season , Manlio Scopigno's time in Vicenza ended. He became the new season coach of FC Bologna , which won the Italian championship for the last time to date in 1964, two years before Scopigno's commitment. After winning the title, however, the performance of the Bologna team fell rapidly and the defending champion was only sixth in Serie A in 1964/65. There was also the first round in the European Cup of National Champions 1964/65 against the Belgian representative RSC Anderlecht . After the overall disappointing season of 1964/65, the club management of FC Bologna no longer trusted successful coach Fulvio Bernardini and signed Manlio Scopigno as his successor. With Scopigno, Bologna was again more successful and reached the runner-up in Serie A in 1965/66 , four points behind Inter Milan . Despite this success, FC Bologna changed coach again and the Argentine Luis Carniglia became the new coach. Scopigno moved to the up-and-coming Sardinian club US Cagliari .

Il Cagliari di Riva e Scopigno

In the summer of 1966, Manlio Scopigno inherited Arturo Silvestri as a coach at the Sardinian club US Cagliari . Silvestri, once a three-time Italian champion with AC Milan , had previously coached Cagliari for five years, leading them to Serie A and establishing them there. In the first two first division seasons, still under Silvestri, the US Cagliari was sixth and eleventh. Then the coach went to AC Milan and was replaced by Manlio Scopigno. This reached with the Cagliari team in his first season, the Serie A 1966/67 , the sixth place in the table. Nevertheless, Scopigno was initially not employed, Ettore Puricelli was the new coach of the team from US Cagliari . They finished ninth under this, but the Puricelli era in Cagliari ended again after the end of Serie A in 1967/68 . President Efisio Corrias then brought Manlio Scopigno back, which heralded the most successful period in the history of the club, which has now been renamed Cagliari Calcio .

With Manlio Scopigno as coach, the US Cagliari finished second in Serie A in 1968/69 , the best placement in the club's first division history to date. Only the team from Fiorentina had to give way, the gap to Fiorentina was four points. The following season 1969/70 was the climax of the Scopigno era in Cagliari. The team around players such as goalkeeping legend Enrico Albertosi , midfield director Angelo Domenghini and, of course, storm star Luigi Riva brought the US Cagliari four points ahead of Inter Milan for the first and so far only time the Italian football championship to Sardinia . On April 12, 1969, a 2-0 win by Cagliari against relegated AS Bari brought the championship three days before the last matchday. US Cagliari dominated the 1969/70 season both in attack and defense. With 42 goals this season, only one less than the best attack, that of Juventus Turin and only 11 goals conceded, the fewest in the league, the team led in both ways. Luigi Riva was also the best scorer in Serie A 1969/70, he hit the opposing goal 21 times.

In the 1970/71 European Cup , for which they were qualified as the Italian champions of 1970, the Cagliari team made it to the round of 16, where they failed 4-2 on aggregate against the Spanish champions Atlético Madrid . Previously, Scopigno's team had already removed the French record champions AS Saint-Étienne, who were then part of the European elite, from the tournament. After winning the national title, however, things went a little downhill again for Cagliari . Due to a series of injuries to Gigi Rivas in the early seventies, it was not possible to match the performance of the championship season. Manlio Scopigno remained the coach of Cagliari until 1972 and only reached seventh place with the team in Serie A 1970/71 as the defending champion, a year later they finished fourth. After that, Manlio Scopigno's coaching time at Cagliari Calcio ended. He led a team with a number of talented players, whose class did not come close to the star ensembles of Milan, Juventus and Inter, to unforeseen performances and the surprising title win. In retrospect, this period in the history of the Cagliari Calcio club is often referred to as Il Cagliari di Riva e Scopigno due to the prominent roles of Luigi Riva and coach Scopigno .

AS Roma and return to Vicenza

After a year without a job, Manlio Scopigno was hired by President Gaetano Anzalone as the new coach of the capital association AS Roma and succeeded Antonio Trebiciani. But with Scopigno as coach, the hoped-for successes at AS Roma did not materialize, the coach was dismissed before the end of 1973 and replaced by Sweden's Nils Liedholm . This led the Roma back to their old strength and subsequently won the Italian championship once and the Italian cup competition, the Coppa Italia, three times with the club .

After his release in Rome , Manlio Scopigno was again unemployed for two years. At the beginning of 1975 he became the successor of Ettore Puricelli, whom he had already inherited in Cagliari, coach of the first division club Lanerossi Vicenza, which he had looked after at the beginning of his coaching career. But even Scopigno could not prevent the descent of Lanerossi Vicenza, incidentally the first since the takeover by the Lanerossi group in the early 1950s. Despite the relegation, the management of Lanerossi Vicenza stuck to Manlio Scopigno as coach, even when the club was in danger of relegation in the second division, Scopigno was not dismissed for a long time. Only after the twentieth game day of Serie B 1975/76 he had to vacate his chair, the successor was the Brazilian Chinesinho , who prevented the crash into the third division.

The expulsion in Vicenza was the conclusion of his successful coaching career for Manlio Scopigno. He withdrew into private. After having previously suffered a heart attack , Scopigno died on September 25, 1993 in his adopted home Rieti of another heart attack at the age of 67. After his death the local stadium of Rieti got his name and has been called Stadio Centro d'Italia - Manlio Scopigno since 2005 . The press stand of the Stadio Sant'Elia is also named after Scopigno. A youth tournament also bears the name of Cagliari Calcio's only master coach to date.

successes

  • Italian runner-up : 2 ×

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personal data
SURNAME Scopigno, Manlio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paularo, Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1993
Place of death Rieti , Italy