Omero Tognon

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Omero Tognon
Personnel
birthday March 3, 1924
place of birth Padua ,  Italy
date of death 23rd August 1990
Place of death Pordenone ,  Italy
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1945-1956 AC Milan 334 (2)
1956-1958 Pordenone Calcio 56 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1949-1954 Italy 14 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1965-1967 Hellas Verona
1967-1970 AC Arezzo
1970-1971 Ravenna Calcio
1971 SC Pisa
1972-1973 FC Crotone
1973-1974 AC Clodiense
1 Only league games are given.

Omero Tognon (born March 3, 1924 in Padua , Italy , † August 23, 1990 in Pordenone , Italy) was an Italian football player and later coach . In addition to two championship titles with AC Milan , he took part in the soccer world championships in Brazil in 1950 and in Switzerland in 1954 with the national team of his home country .

After his active career as a player, he became a coach at Hellas Verona , AC Arezzo and SC Pisa, among others .

Player career

Club career

Omero Tognon, born in 1924 in the northern Italian city of Padua, began playing football in Milan for AC Milan . There he was accepted into the professional team in 1945. The first few years in the AC Milan jersey were still untitled, as the famous AC Turin team , the Grande Torino , dominated Italian football at the time. But with the Superga plane crash in 1949 and the death of almost all Torino players, this dominance ended abruptly and new clubs played for the championship. This also included AC Milan, which with players like the Swedish attacker Gunnar Nordahl , his compatriot Nils Liedholm and the Italian national goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon was one of the best teams in Italy at the time. In the 1950/51 season , the team of coach Lajos Czeizler brought the first Scudetto ever for Milan . In Serie A , at the end of all match days, a first place was occupied with five points ahead of local rivals Ambrosiana-Inter , with the Milan team at the time being characterized by a strong offensive with over a hundred goals this season. But the defense also knew how to convince, with 39 goals conceded they were the best team in the league.

After winning the title in 1951, two years followed in which AC Milan had to admit defeat to Juventus Turin and Ambrosiana-Inter. Only in the 1954/55 season succeeded in winning the second title by taking first place with six points ahead of Udinese Calcio . The 1955 championship was the last title for Omero Tognon in the AC Milan jersey. The captain of the Milan team of the 1950s left the club in 1956 after 334 league games with two goals. Previously, he had been under contract with AC Milan for twelve years.

After leaving the Stadio San Siro , Omero Tognon joined the Pordenone Calcio , where he played at amateur level for two years and brought it to 56 league games with a goal for today's fifth-rate club. In the summer of 1958, Omero Tognon ended his football career at the age of 34.

National team

Between 1949 and 1954, Omero Tognon made a total of fourteen international matches for the Italian national soccer team . He was part of the generation of Italian players who rebuilt the national team in the years after the Superga plane crash, which also affected a large part of the national team's players with AC Turin. He was appointed by national coach Ferruccio Novo to the Italian squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . Not considered by Novo and not used in the tournament, Omero Tognon was only indirectly involved in the early elimination of the Italians in the preliminary round.

Four years later, Omero Tognon experienced his second soccer world championship in Switzerland . At the 1954 World Championships, unlike in 1950, he was a regular player and played all three games of the Italian team, which was now coached by the Hungarian Lajos Czeizler , under whom Tognon had become Italian champion with AC Milan in 1951. But even under Milan's successful coach, Italy did not survive the preliminary round and only came third behind the national teams of England and Switzerland , which meant the end in the first round. After the World Cup in 1954, Omero Tognon ended his career in the Italian national football team after fourteen international matches, but all without scoring his own.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a soccer player, Omero Tognon became a coach. His first coaching position was at Hellas Verona , which was in the depths of Serie B twenty years before the famous Scudetto dei Miracoli . Under Tognon Hellas reached sixth place in Serie B in 1965/66 and thus missed promotion. That didn't improve in the following season either, instead they found themselves in a relegation battle at the beginning of the season. At the beginning of 1967, Hellas Verona separated from coach Omero Tognon and hired Ugo Pozzan, who was not more successful and was soon replaced by Nils Liedholm. This finally led Hellas Verona to stay in the league.

Omero Tognon had his second coaching position at AC Arezzo , where he worked quite successfully for three years. He led Arezzo back to Serie B after two years in third division in 1969 and reached with his team in Serie B 1969/70 with rank fourteen relatively safe relegation. Despite the success, he left Arezzo in the summer of 1970 and was the new coach of the third division Ravenna Calcio , where he worked for a year. As a result, Tognon coached two other third division teams with SC Pisa and FC Crotone and an amateur team with AC Clodiense. In 1974 his coaching career ended.

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personal data
SURNAME Tognon, Omero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1990
Place of death Pordenone , Italy