Nereo Rocco

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Nereo Rocco
Personnel
birthday May 20, 1912
place of birth Trieste ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death 20th February 1979
Place of death Trieste ,  Italy
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1927-1930 US Triestina
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930-1937 US Triestina 232 (66)
1937-1940 SSC Naples 52 0(7)
1940-1942 AC Padua 47 (14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1934 Italy 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1946-1947 AS Libertas Trieste
1947-1950 US Triestina
1950-1953 AC Treviso
1953-1954 US Triestina
1954-1961 AC Padua
1961-1963 AC Milan
1963-1967 AC Turin
1967-1973 AC Milan
1974-1975 AC Florence
1977 AC Milan
1 Only league games are given.

Nereo Rocco (born May 20, 1912 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary , † February 20, 1979 in Trieste, Italy ) was an Italian football player and coach .

Player career

Nereo Rocco began his career as a half-forward at US Triestina . In 1937 he moved to SSC Napoli , later he ended his career with AC Padua during the war. In the national team , he brought it to a use. He played on half left in the 4-0 victory in the World Cup qualifier on March 25, 1934 against Greece .

Coaching career

Through his work at AC Padua (1954 to 1961), where Nereo Rocco managed to move up to Serie A in 1955 and where Padua was able to stay there until he left in 1961, the coach had a positive impact on the AC Milan Executive Committee . They committed the man from Trieste to the 1961/62 round as the new coach for the "Rossoneri". In his first season he won the Serie A title with Milan .

In the European Cup of National Champions 1962/63 he led his team after successes against Union Sportive Luxembourg , Ipswich Town , Galatasaray Istanbul and FC Dundee in the semifinals, in the final on May 22, 1963 in London against the defending champions Benfica Lisbon . Thanks to his motivational skills and tactical skills, he was able to play attractive offensive football with his team and did not rely exclusively on the defensive. Eusebio gave the Portuguese a 1-0 lead at Wembley Stadium , but two goals from José Altafini decided the game for the team from Lombardy. The defensive around goalkeeper Giorgio Ghezzi , cleaner Cesare Maldini and the special guard from Eusebio, Giovanni Trapattoni , did not allow a goal to be conceded after the 2-1 lead. The clear victories with 3-0 goals against Ipswich, 5-0 against Galatasaray and the 5-1 semi-final win in the San Siro Stadium against the "Dark Blues" from Dundee clearly spoke in favor of Nereo Rocco's game philosophy.

In his second engagement from 1967 he won with Milan first nine points ahead of SSC Napoli in 1968 in Serie A, the ninth "Scudetto". After successes against Levski Sofia , Győri Vasas ETO , Standard Liège and in the semifinals against the defending champions FC Bayern Munich , he also moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup on May 23, 1968 in Rotterdam against Hamburger SV . The men around Uwe Seeler had no serious chance of winning against the Rocco protégés in the 2-0 defeat. The technical, playful and tactical superiority of AC Milan was too great.

The following year, 1969, the man from Trieste also led his team into the final of the European Cup . Again he had eliminated the defending champions in the semi-finals with Manchester United . On May 28, 1969 in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Rocco's team prevailed with 4-1 goals against Ajax Amsterdam . The defense with goalkeeper Cudicini and the defenders Anquiletti , Malatrasi , Rosato and Schnellinger , in conjunction with the midfielders Trapattoni, Lodetti and Rivera, was simply too strong to allow the offensive around Johan Cruyff to develop effectively on Ajax's side. But that wasn't enough of the success, Nereo Rocco and his team also won the 1969 World Cup against Estudiantes de la Plata.

Rocco celebrated his fourth European Cup success in 1973 in the Cup Winners' Cup. Red Boys Differdange , Legia Warsaw , Spartak Moscow and Sparta Prague were the stops before the final on May 16, 1973 in Saloniki against Leeds United . In the final, the coach had to do without his defense chief Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, who had pulled a thigh strain in the final training. With a goal from Luciano Chiarugi , Milan decided the game and had won the cup winners' competition for the second time. The "Paron" crowned his successful work at AC Milan and retired to the post of sports director. When Milan seemed to get into the relegation vortex in the 1976/77 series, Rocco jumped in again as an interim coach and took over the coaching position from February to June 1977.

His home club, the US Triestina , named their football stadium after the famous player and even more successful coach ( Stadio Nereo Rocco ). In the national team, however, he was only allowed to play once.

Success as a trainer

AC Milan

Others

literature

  • Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 .

Web links

Commons : Nereo Rocco  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Nereo Rocco in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Nereo Rocco in the database of the Enciclopedia del Calcio (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Rocco, Nereo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1979
Place of death Trieste