Riccardo Carapellese

Riccardo Carapellese
Riccardo Carapellese 1956
Personnel
birthday	July 1, 1922
place of birth	Cerignola ,  Italy
date of death	October 20, 1995
Place of death	Rapallo ,  Italy
size	168 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1942	AC Turin	0 0(0)
1942-1943	AC specia	19 0(3)
1944	AS Casale	17 0(3)
1945	Vigevano Calcio
1945-1946	FC Como	16 0(3)
1946-1949	AC Milan	106 (52)
1949-1952	AC Turin	98 (28)
1952-1953	Juventus Turin	17 0(9)
1953-1957	CFC genoa	94 (22)
1957-1959	Catania Calcio	30 0(9)
1959-1960	unknown	0
1960-1961	Vigevano Calcio	0
1961–1962	Ternana Calcio	3 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1947-1956	Italy	16 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1961-1964	SS Ternana
1964-1965	US Salernitana
1972-1973	AC Savoia 1908
1 Only league games are given.

Riccardo Carapellese (born July 1, 1922 in Cerignola , † October 20, 1995 in Rapallo ) was an Italian football player and coach .

Career

Club career

Riccardo Carapellese, born in Cerignola in the province of Foggia in Apulia in 1922 , began playing football at AC Spezia . At the club from the city of the same name in Liguria , he played one season in Serie B and scored three goals in nineteen league games. After the 1942/43 season, the league operation in Italy was interrupted due to the Second World War and so Carapellese did not return to official games until 1945. In 1945/46 he played for a year at FC Como before joining the renowned AC Milan club. In his first season at Milan he was the second best goalscorer of his team with twenty goals this season, only behind Uruguayan Ettore Puricelli , who scored 21 goals. In the table he was fourth with Milan. After the 1947/48 season was not that of Riccardo Carapellese, he played better again in 1948/49 and finished fifth in the list of top scorers with eighteen goals scored. He also helped his club to reach third place in the table.

At the beginning of May 1949, the Superga plane crash occurred , in which the entire team of the great teams of AC Turin , the Grande Torino , who had dominated Italian football in recent years, with the exception of Sauro Tomà , who was not on board the accident machine who died. After the crash, Carapellese was one of those who helped rebuild AC Turin and joined the club for the 1949/50 season . They played a good season according to the circumstances and ended up in sixth place in the table. Also in the following season he wore the jersey of Torino and was only barely able to prevent relegation to Serie B with a seventeenth place, just two points ahead of the first relegated AS Roma . After he had completed another season with AC Turin in the lower third of Serie A , Riccardo Carapellese moved to local rivals Juventus Turin , with whom he was runner-up behind Ambrosiana-Inter in 1952/53 , but could only achieve nine goals this season.

In 1953 Riccardo Carapellese went to CFC Genoa . He played for the Northern Italians until 1957 and made a total of 94 games (22 goals) in the league. However, there was no great success. The former record champions from times before the First World War could reach a maximum of midfield positions, but also always celebrate relegation. In 1957 Carapellese signed a contract with the second division Catania Calcio in Sicily . In 1959 he ended his active career in Catania jersey and became a coach, coaching a total of three clubs. But with SS Ternana as well as with US Salernitana and AC Savoia in 1908 he was denied great successes.

National team

Riccardo Carapellese came between 1957 and 1956 to 16 international matches for the Italian national football team , in which he scored ten goals. Carapellese made his debut in 1947 in a friendly against Austria , which ended in a 5-1 defeat. In 1950 he was from Italy coach Ferruccio Novo into the squad for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil called. Carapellese led the Italian team, weakened by the plane crash -  the Grande Torino had made up a significant part of the national team - as captain and was used in both games of his team, he scored two goals during the tournament. He scored the first goal of the game both in the opening game of the reigning world champion against Sweden's amateurs, the Swedish association at that time did not allow professional players in the national team (2: 3) and in the second group game against Paraguay (2: 0). These two tournament goals could not prevent the elimination of Italy after the preliminary round.

Web links

• Riccardo Carapellese in the database of weltfussball.de
• The player profile (English)
• Information about the player (Italian)