Oronzo Pugliese

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Oronzo Pugliese
Personnel
birthday April 5, 1910
place of birth Turi ,  Italy
date of death March 11, 1990
Place of death Turi ,  Italy
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1931-1932 Casamassima
1933-1934 Molfetta Sportiva
1934-1935 Frosinone Calcio
1935-1936 Montevarchi Calcio
1936-1937 Potenza SC
1937-1938 SIME Popoli
1938-1945 US Siracusa
1945-1947 FC Messina
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1945-1947 FC Messina
1947-1949 Igea Virtus
1949-1951 FC Messina
1951-1952 AC Benevento
1952-1955 US Nissena
1955-1958 AS Reggina
1958-1959 AC Siena
1959-1960 US Siracusa
1960-1961 AC Siena
1961-1965 Foggia Calcio
1965-1968 AS Roma
1969 Bologna FC
1969-1970 AS Bari
1971 AC Florence
1973 Bologna FC
1973-1974 US Lucchese Libertas
1974-1975 US Avellino
1975-1976 US Termoli
1977-1988 FC Crotone
1 Only league games are given.

Oronzo Pugliese (born April 5, 1910 in Turi ; † March 11, 1990 ibid) was an Italian football player and later coach. As an active player only appeared in the lower class, he later became a very successful coach and led the Foggia Calcio team from third to first division between 1961 and 1965. Then he also coached AS Roma for three years .

Player career

Oronzo Pugliese, born on April 5, 1910 in the southern Italian town of Turi , began his career as an active football player at the two regional clubs Gioia del Colle and Casamassima, where he made his first spurs as an actor in adult football. From 1933 Pugliese kicked a year for Molfetta Sportiva , then for the same length of time each for Frosinone Calcio , Montevarchi Calcio , Potenza SC and SIME Popoli .

From 1939 Oronzo Pugliese was on the pitch for US Siracusa and stayed with the club until 1945, which at that time did not go beyond regional Sicilian football. After six years in Syracuse , the midfielder changed employers again in 1945. He subsequently played for FC Messina for two years before ending his footballing career in 1947 at the age of 37. Even as an active player in Messina , Pugliese was also a coach. As early as 1941 to 1942 he had been active as an assistant trainer for the US Siracusa. After the end of his career as an active football player, he devoted himself entirely to coaching.

Coaching career

During his active football career, Oronzo Pugliese also worked as a coach. From 1945 to 1947 he was in charge of FC Messina, after having been assistant coach at US Siracusa from 1941 to 1942. Pugliese spent two years with Messina in the third-class Serie C before he coached Igea Virtus for two years from 1947, before returning to his old place of work at FC Messina in 1949. For another two years until 1951, Oronzo Pugliese led the fortunes of the largest football club in the Sicilian city in his second term and was promoted to Serie B in 1950 as the first Girone D in Serie C after winning playoff games against AS Cosenza . There succeeded in the following season with place fifteen, the league. Nevertheless, Pugliese did not stay in Messina and then coached AC Benevento for a year before he was responsible for the US Nissena for three years from 1952 to 1955 . The coach then spent another three years at AS Reggina , which he led to return to Serie C in his first season and was then able to establish there. This was followed by a one-year guest performance at AC Siena for the southern Italian , which he continued in a second term from 1960 to 1961 after a break of a further year and at the same time for the US Siracusa.

In the summer of 1961 Oronzo Pugliese succeeded Leonardo Costagliola at the third division Foggia Calcio . With this club Pugliese experienced his greatest successes as a coach and led the club in its first season with first place in the Girone C of the Series C with a lead of three points over the US Lecce in the second Italian division. There you could establish yourself with fifth place in the upper third of the table and underline this in the following season with third place. With one point ahead of AC Padova , Oronzo Pugliese Foggia Calcio led the club into Serie A for the first time in the club's history, just two years after the club had only made promotion from the third to the second division. And when they arrived in Serie A, Foggia Calcio had an excellent 1964/65 season . By reaching ninth place in the league, a clear midfield position was achieved. Oronzo Pugliese had already been awarded the title of Italian coach for the 1963/64 season as the father of success in Foggia the previous year .

After these successes at Foggia Calcio, Oronzo Pugliese left his employer at the end of the 1964/65 season and signed a contract with the capital club AS Roma , where he spent the following three years. However, Pugliese's engagement in Rome was less successful than that in Foggia, it only achieved midfield placements in all three seasons. After the end of the 1967/68 season , those responsible on the Tiber had enough and replaced Pugliese with the former master coach of Inter Milan , Helenio Herrera .

Pugliese himself took a year away from the football business before he took over the coaching position of the first division club AS Bari in the summer of 1969 after a very brief interim period at FC Bologna . Under Pugliese, the southern Italians played a bad season and found themselves in the relegation battle for the entire season, at the end of the season they went straight back to the second division. Coach Pugliese had been replaced by Carlo Matteucci after 23 matchdays . At the beginning of 1971 Oronzo Pugliese jumped in for the dismissed master coach Bruno Pesaola at Fiorentina and led the team in Serie A 1970/71 to thirteenth place and thus due to the better goal difference compared to Pugliese's old club Foggia to relegation. There was no further employment. In 1973 he was again briefly coach in Bologna for Pesaola . After that, Oronzo Pugliese only had jobs in the lower floors of Italian football. Both at the US Lucchese Libertas , the US Avellino , the US Termoli and FC Crotone, these coaching posts only lasted one year and were not marked by any great success. After the end of his work in Crotone in 1978 Pugliese did not take over another club.

successes

1963/64 with Foggia Calcio
1949/50 with FC Messina
1961/62 with Foggia Calcio
  • Italian coach of the year : 1 ×
1963/64 as coach of Foggia Calcio

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personal data
SURNAME Pugliese, Oronzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Turi , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1990
Place of death Turi , Italy