Roberto Tricella

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Roberto Tricella
Personnel
birthday March 18, 1959
place of birth Cernusco sul Naviglio ,  Italy
size 183 cm
position Libero
Juniors
Years station
Inter Milan
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1979 Inter Milan 5 (0)
1979-1987 Hellas Verona 255 (3)
1987-1990 Juventus Turin 80 (2)
1990-1992 Bologna FC 23 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1987 Italy 11 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Tricella (born March 18, 1959 in Cernusco sul Naviglio , Italy ) is a former Italian football player .

As captain, he was instrumental in Hellas Verona’s surprising title win in the 1984/85 season . He also played for Inter Milan , Juventus Turin and FC Bologna . Tricella also took part in the 1986 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Roberto Tricella started playing football in the youth department of Inter Milan . After going through this, Tricella was appointed to the professional squad of Internazionale in 1977. However, he could not fully assert himself here and only made five appearances in the Italian Serie A by 1979. Despite the fact that Roberto Tricella was hardly ever used at Inter Milan, he won his first title in his first season as a player, the Coppa Italia was won in 1978 in the final against SSC Napoli . However, Tricella experienced the cup victory as a reservist.

In 1979 Roberto Tricella left Inter Milan and moved to the second-rate Serie B at Hellas Verona . With the club he initially played in the middle of Serie B for two years. With the arrival of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli in the summer of 1981, this situation changed and Hellas Verona achieved a sovereign promotion to Serie A in the following season . The team was able to establish itself there immediately and, as a newcomer, achieved a sensational fourth place in the 1982/83 season . This positive development held up and Hellas Verona came in sixth in 1983/84 . Meanwhile, the team was reinforced with players such as the German Hans-Peter Briegel , the Dane Preben Elkjær Larsen or the Italian Giuseppe Galderisi and created the big sensation in the 1984/85 season. With Roberto Tricella as captain, coach Bagnoli's team won the Italian championship, the only championship title to date for the club, which is now in second class. Hellas Verona took first place in the 1984/85 season with four points ahead of Torino Calcio . With only nineteen goals against in thirty league games, Hellas Verona had the best defense in Serie A, to which Roberto Tricella played a decisive role in his position as sweeper. But the championship title of 1985 was not only the climax of the most successful era of Hellas Verona, but also the turning point. In the years after the championship, things went downhill again for the club, just five years after Scudetto won, they went back to Serie B. At this point in time Roberto Tricella was no longer playing at the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi . He left Hellas Verona in 1987 and joined Juventus Turin .

Roberto Tricella was also successful with Juve . With the team around players like Luigi De Agostini , Rui Barros or Salvatore Schillaci , Roberto Tricella initially showed himself to be successful in the Italian soccer cup , after winning 1-0 at AC Milan Cup winners in 1990 after the first leg in Turin had ended goalless. A year later, Roberto Tricella, who succeeded Gaetano Scirea as Libero at Juventus , also added a European success to his collection of titles. In the final of the 1989/90 UEFA Cup they were victorious 3-1 and 0-0 against Fiorentina . In the two finals Tricella was no longer used, he had lost his regular place. In the summer of 1990 he signed a new contract with FC Bologna . In Bologna he let his football career come to an end from 1990 to 1992 and made 23 league games for the Emilian club during that time. In 1992 Tricella ended his active career as a football player at the age of 33. He then turned away from the football business and now works as a real estate agent.

National team

Between 1984 and 1987 Roberto Tricella made a total of eleven international matches for the Italian national soccer team . In these eleven games he did not succeed. Tricella made his debut in the national jersey on December 8, 1984 in Pescara against Poland in the 2-0 win of the Italian team, when he was substituted on in the 46th minute of the game. Two years later he was selected by Italy coach Enzo Bearzot into the squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico called. In the course of the tournament, however, he could not get past Gaetano Scirea and did not make a single tournament game. His team, however, which came to Mexico as the reigning soccer world champion, failed in the round of 16 against Michel Platini's French team with 0-2. Before that, they finished second in the group stage behind eventual world champions Argentina and ahead of the national teams of Bulgaria and South Korea .

successes

1984/85 with Hellas Verona
1977/78 with Inter Milan
1989/90 with Juventus Turin
1989/90 with Juventus Turin

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personal data
SURNAME Tricella, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Cernusco sul Naviglio , Italy