Osvaldo Bagnoli
| Osvaldo Bagnoli | ||
 Osvaldo Bagnoli after winning
the championship with Hellas Verona in 1984/85 |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | July 3, 1935 | |
| place of birth | Milan , Italy | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Ausonia 1931 | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1954-1955 | Ausonia 1931 | |
| 1955-1957 | AC Milan | 18 (2) |
| 1957-1960 | Hellas Verona | 97 (28) |
| 1960-1961 | Udinese Calcio | 11 (1) |
| 1961-1964 | US Catanzaro | 102 (22) |
| 1964-1967 | SPAL Ferrara | 92 (12) |
| 1967-1968 | Udinese Calcio | 22 (4) |
| 1969-1973 | SS Verbania Calcio | 135 (23) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1973-1974 | Solbiatese Arno Calcio | |
| 1974-1977 | FC Como | |
| 1977-1988 | Rimini Calcio | |
| 1978-1979 | Alma Juventus Fano 1906 | |
| 1979-1981 | AC Cesena | |
| 1981-1990 | Hellas Verona | |
| 1990-1992 | CFC genoa | |
| 1992-1994 | Inter Milan | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Osvaldo Bagnoli (born July 3, 1935 in Milan ) is a former Italian football player and coach . After becoming Italian champions as a player with AC Milan , in 1985 he led the underdog Hellas Verona , for whom he worked for nine years, to the only championship so far. Later he also coached the CFC Genoa and Inter Milan .
Player career
Osvaldo Bagnoli, born on July 3, 1935 in the northern Italian metropolis of Milan , began playing football for the club Ausonia in 1931 in the amateur field. There he aroused the interest of AC Milan . In 1955 he was signed by the Rossoneri and has now played for Milan for two years. During this time he won the Italian championship in the 1956/57 season with Milan, where he played together with international football greats of the time such as Nils Liedholm , Cesare Maldini and Juan Schiaffino . In Serie A, first place was taken six points ahead of defending champion ACF Fiorentina . Even before that, you could win the Coupe Latine , the predecessor of the European Cup .
After just eighteen appearances in league play in the jersey of AC Milan Osvaldo Bagnoli left the club in 1957 and went to Hellas Verona , which just straight out of series B in the Serie A ascended was. However, it was followed by a final rank with only 26 points from 34 games of direct relegation. After relegation to the first division, Bagnoli spent two years with Verona in the second division. In 1960 he went to Udinese Calcio after 97 league games for Hellas Verona , where in the 1960/61 season the relegation could only be prevented in relegation games against Calcio Lecco and AS Bari. After this one season he was drawn to the US Catanzaro from Serie B in the south of Italy . Here Bagnoli always reached positions in the midfield of the second highest league. He stayed with Catanzaro until 1964 and made 102 league games and 22 goals. For the 1964/65 season he was obliged by the league competitor SPAL Ferrara , with whom he immediately managed to get promoted again after only one year in the second division. As a newcomer managed to stay in the league in the following season as fifteenth, just one point before the first relegated Sampdoria Genoa . Even 1966/67 Ferrara was successful and was twelfth, but again only two points ahead of Lazio , the first relegated. After the end of the season 1966/67 Osvaldo Bagnoli changed again the club and joined Udinese Calcio again for a year. After 22 appearances in Serie C , in which the first-class Udine had fallen five years ago , he went to SS Verbania Calcio in 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he played 135 third division games there and always reached midfield positions with his club.
Coaching career
Beginnings and first promotion to Serie A
After the end of his time as an active football player, Osvaldo Begnoli became a coach. 1973 was his first position as responsible trainer in the third division. Solbiatese Arno Calcio. It was reached twelfth place in Serie C, but Begnoli's employment ended after the season. In the 1974/75 season he took over the second division club FC Como , which he led into Serie A as runner-up behind AC Perugia . However, only 21 points were achieved in Serie A 1975/76 , which meant that the second-to-last position in the table had to be started in the second division. Despite this failure, Como stuck to his coach, with whom the club missed the promotion in the second division season 1976/77 in sixth place, whereby Begnoli's time in Como was over. 1977/78 he briefly trained Rimini Calcio and was only just able to avoid relegation from Serie B, the season ended with one point ahead of US Cremonese , which had to go to Serie C1 . For Begnoli followed a year at the fourth division Alma Juventus Fano 1906, which he led to the sovereign ascent as the first with ten points ahead of a non-promotion place in the C1 series, but resigned the office at the end of the season to join the second division AC Cesena . As fourth in the 1979/80 season you missed the jump to Serie A in the first season, while the FC Como, AC Pistoiese and AC Brescia rose. A year later the promotion succeeded, they finished second, only behind AC Milan, who had to be relegated from Serie A due to a bribery scandal together with Lazio Rome last year. Despite the success with Cesena , Begnoli did not stay with the club. He signed a contract with Hellas Verona in 1981.
Il Verona di Bagnoli
By the time Osvaldo Bagnoli took office, the formerly first-class Hellas Verona had established itself in Serie B. In previous years, mostly midfield ranks were reached, but in the 1980/81 season they only just managed to stay in the league. In his first season in Verona , he led the team to first place in Serie B in 1981/82 and, together with Sampdoria Genua and Pisa SC , managed to get promoted to Serie A. There they caused a big surprise and occupied after all Fourth place on match days, eight points behind the new Italian champions AS Roma and qualified for the UEFA Cup . In the same season, Bagnoli reached the final in the Italian Football Cup with Hellas Verona . Hellas won the final first leg at their home stadium Marcantonio Bentegodi 2-0 through goals from Domenico Penzo and Domenico Volpati , in the second leg at Juventus Turin, however, Osvaldo Bagnoli's team lost 3-0 after extra time and lost the final due to the worse goal difference where Michel Platini Juventus saved only in the 119th minute before the game on penalties.
The 1983/84 season was completed by Hellas Verona with the sixth place in the table, which one missed a renewed participation in the international competition. In the UEFA Cup , the end came in the second round against SK Sturm Graz from Austria , after they had drawn the short straw after using the away goals rule. The first leg in Verona ended 2-2 and in Graz Hellas only had a goalless draw, which meant that Graz had two away goals and Verona zero. In the previous round, they had prevailed 4-2 on a two-way leg against the Yugoslav representative Red Star Belgrade .
1984/85 was the most successful year for Hellas Verona in the club's history. With coach Bagnoli and players such as goalkeeper Claudio Garella , defender Hans-Peter Briegel , midfielder Antonio Di Gennaro and striker Preben Elkjær Larsen , the Italian football championship was won for the first time in the history of the club, which was founded in 1903. In Serie A they were first with four points ahead of Torino Calcio . At the same time, Hellas Verona provided the best defense in the Italian elite league with only nineteen goals in thirty games. The unexpected success under coach Bagnoli earned Hellas Verona the name Il Verona di Bagnoli . In football Italy in the eighties there were often such names, including Napoli di Maradona , Udinese di Zico and Juventus di Platini .
In the years after the championship title, the successes at Hellas Verona decreased. In the 1985/86 season they were only tenth and also in the European Cup in the same year they were eliminated in the second round against last year's winner Juventus Turin with 0-0 and 0-2, after Greece's title holder PAOK in the first round Had defeated Thessaloniki 3-1 and 2-1. In the 1986/87 season Hellas came fourth, which brought participation in the 1987/88 UEFA Cup with it. Here Bagnoli led his team to the quarter-finals, where they failed at Werder Bremen . Pogoń Stettin , FC Utrecht and Sportul Studențesc had previously been eliminated. In the league operations in 1987/88 things went less well, Verona was only tenth again. Also in the following season, eleventh place only came in midfield. The 1989/90 season ended for Hellas Verona with only 23 points from 34 games in 16th place, which together with Udinese Calcio, Ascoli Calcio and US Cremonese the gang had to be started in the second division. While management had not dismissed Bagnoli despite the catastrophic course of the season, he did not stay in Verona after relegation and signed a contract with the first division club CFC Genoa for the 1990/91 season . At Hellas Verona, Bagnoli was replaced by Eugenio Fascetti , who previously worked for US Lecce , Lazio Rome and Torino Calcio , who returned the club directly to the first division.
Last stops at Genoa and Inter
With CFC Genoa, Osvaldo Bagnoli took over a club in 1990 whose last championship was 66 years ago. As table eleventh was occupied in the past 1989/90 season a midfield, while Bagnoli was relegated with Verona. The Serie A 1990/91 ended Osvaldo Bagnoli with CFC Genoa in fourth place in the table and, as once at Hellas Verona, caused a big surprise. This allowed you to start for the 1991/92 UEFA Cup . Only in the round of the last four teams came the end against the top Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam around stars like Frank de Boer , Aron Winter and Dennis Bergkamp as well as coach Louis van Gaal . A little later, Ajax won the UEFA Cup in the final against Torino Calcio. CFC Genoa had previously caused a sensation in the course of the tournament when they defeated the world stars of Liverpool FC first 2-0 in Genoa and then 2-1 at Anfield Road in the quarter-finals and 4-1 in addition from the Tournament threw. Before that, the CFC had already eliminated Real Oviedo , Dinamo Bucharest and Steaua Bucharest . After that came out in the semifinals and only the fourteenth place was reached in the league, Osvaldo Bagnoli fell out with the President of CFC Genoa, Aldo Spinelli, and his contract was not extended. He moved to Inter Milan .
In his first season as coach of Internazionale, he and the team around players like Walter Zenga , Giuseppe Bergomi and Rubén Sosa Ardáiz became Italian runners-up, only behind local rivals AC Milan. So you were qualified for the UEFA Cup 1993/94 . In this competition, Inter made it to the final and was victorious there against SV Austria Salzburg . Osvaldo Bagnoli did not experience this success as the person responsible on the sidelines at Inter, he was released in the final phase of the 1993/94 season because of continued unsuccessfulness and the threatened crash in the second division. His successor Giampiero Marini was able to save Inter from relegation and bring them to the UEFA Cup. For Osvaldo Bagnoli the coaching career was over after his engagement with Internazionale, with 59 years he didn’t take over another club.
successes
As a player
- Italian Championship : 1 × ( 1956/57 )
- Coupe Latine : 1 × (1956)
As a trainer
- Italian Championship : 1 × ( 1984/85 )
- Seminatore d'oro : 1 × (1984)
Web links
- Osvaldo Bagnoli in the database of weltfussball.de
- Information from the Hellas Verona website
- Biography of Bagnoli
- Profile of his playing career
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bagnoli, Osvaldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |