Pierino Prati

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Pierino Prati
Final Europa Cup II AC Milan against HSV Hamburg 2-0. Spelmomenten, inventory number 921-3782.jpg
Prati in the final of
the 1968 European Cup Winners' Cup
Personnel
birthday December 13, 1946
place of birth Cinisello Balsamo ,  Italy
date of death June 22, 2020
Place of death Montorfano ,  Italy
size 181 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1966 Salernitana Calcio 19 (10)
1966-1973 AC Milan 141 (72)
1966-1967 →  Savona FC  (loan) 29 (15)
1973-1977 AS Roma 82 (28)
1977-1988 AC Florence 8 0(0)
1978-1979 Savona FC 25 (10)
1979 Rochester Lancers 6 0(3)
1979-1981 Savona FC 54 (24)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1974 Italy 14 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984 Calcio Lecco 1912
1988-1989 Solbiatese Calcio 1911
1989-1990 Sporting Bellinzago
1990-1991 Pro Patria 1919
1 Only league games are given.
Prati (r.) With Gianni Rivera

Pierino Prati (born December 13, 1946 in Cinisello Balsamo , † June 22, 2020 in Montorfano ) was an Italian football player and coach . With AC Milan , the national player won, among other things, the European Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup twice. With the national team he won the European Championship in 1968 . He was also part of the team that became runner-up in 1970, but was not used in the tournament. Prati was a versatile striker, capable of shooting and with a good header. He was often used as a left winger.

Career

In the club

Prati began his active playing career in Serie C at Salernitana Calcio , with whom he rose to Serie B in 1966 .

He was then signed by AC Milan , where he made his Serie A debut in September , but was loaned to Savona FC in Serie B a little later . After a good year in Savona he went back to Milan and stayed there until 1973. During this time he won the Italian championship as well as with the Rossoneri under coach Nereo Rocco with the large team around Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Giovanni Trapattoni and Gianni Rivera in 1968 against the German representative Hamburger SV the European Cup Winners' Cup . In 1969 he won the European Cup , where he scored three goals in the 4-1 final win against AFC Ajax , which apart from him only Ferenc Puskás (twice) and Alfredo Di Stéfano have achieved so far . This was followed by triumph in the World Cup in the games against Argentina's Estudiantes de La Plata . In 1972 and 1973 he also won the Italian Cup and in 1973 the European Cup Winners' Cup , where he was not used in the 1-0 win against Leeds United .

In the championship season, Prati was also the top scorer in Serie A with 15 goals in 23 games ; the lowest number of goals ever necessary to achieve this honor. This number was equalized in 1982 by Roberto Pruzzo and in 1988 by Diego Maradona , but they needed 26 and 28 games in the season. Prati's personal record is 19 goals in 29 games in the 1970/71 season.

In 1973 he went to AS Roma for four years under the reign of the Swedish coach Nils Liedholm , where he was third in 1975 and otherwise crawled around in midfield. Then he played for a year with the Fiorentina in Florence . She finished third in the championship, but he only made eight appearances in the league, five of them as a substitute. Between 1978 and 1981 he let his playing career at Savona FC end in Serie C2 . In 1979 he played briefly in the North American Soccer League with the Rochester Lancers , where he worked with the Schalke and Essen Bundesliga veteran Hartmut Huhse and numerous Yugoslavs.

In the national team

Internationally, Pierino Prati made his debut for the Italian national football team under Ferruccio Valcareggi on April 6, 1968 against Bulgaria . He won with the Azzuri the 1968 European Championship held in Italy , where he was in the first of two finals against Yugoslavia. At the 1970 World Cup in Mexico , Prati was runner-up with the national team, but was not used during the tournament.

Trainer

After retiring from active football, he tried his hand at coaching between 1984 and 1990, but did not get beyond the upper amateur classes, i.e. about fifth division and down. Most prominent were the clubs Calcio Lecco 1912 from Lake Como and Pro Patria 1919 from Busto Arsizio , not far from it; both former first division clubs. Solbiatese Calcio 1911 from the province of Varese in Lombardy , he led in 1989 to promotion to the C2 series .

Pierino Prati died on June 22, 2020 at the age of 73 after a long illness in a nursing home in Montorfano. His grave is in the cemetery of Fabbrica Durini, a district of Alzate Brianza in the province of Como .

successes

In the club

In the national team

Individually

Web links

Commons : Pierino Prati  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RIP: Pierino Prati dead at 73. In: Football Italia. June 22, 2020, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Prati, Pierino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Cinisello Balsamo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2020
Place of death Montorfano