Santiago Vernazza

Santiago Vernazza
Santiago Vernazza in the jersey of Platense
Personnel
Surname	Julio Carlos Santiago Vernazza
birthday	August 26, 1928
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	November 12, 2017
size	178 cm
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1950	Club Atlético Platense	109 (53)
1951-1956	River Plate	154 (72)
1957-1960	US Palermo	115 (51)
1960-1961	AC Milan	29 (14)
1961-1963	Lanerossi Vicenza	30 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1955	Argentina	6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Júlio Carlos Santiago "Ghito" Vernazza (* 26. August 1928 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ; † 12. November 2017 ) was an Argentine football player , who in his homeland with CA River Plate Champion several times was and later in Italy in Palermo , during AC Milan and played at Lanerossi Vicenza .

Career

Club career

Santiago Vernazza played the first years of his active career as a football player with Club Atlético Platense , a club in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area , which was then to be found in the first-class Primera División . For Platense Vernazza made 109 games in the league between 1947 and 1951 and scored 53 goals. Mostly results jumped out for Vernazza and Platense results in the middle of the league, only in the season 1949 they came third behind champions Racing Avellaneda and CA River Plate . Santiago Vernazza moved to the same club for the 1951 season, which resulted in the most successful period of his career for the attacker. In the River Plate jersey, he played with other Argentinian football greats of the time, such as Ángel Labruna , Félix Loustau , Amadeo Carrizo and Norberto Yácono . Between 1952 and 1956, Santiago Vernazza won the championship of Argentina four times with River Plate, with only two seasons not finishing first. In his first season with the Millonarios , as River Plate was called because of its expensive player purchases, Vernazza was also top scorer with 22 goals. Overall, Vernazza came to 72 goals in 154 league games during his time at River Plate.

In the winter of 1956/57 he moved to Europe in the Italian Serie A and joined the newly promoted US Palermo from Sicily . He had been fighting against relegation since the beginning of the season and could not prevent it even after the commitment of Santiago Vernazza. At the end of Serie A 1956/57 Palermo had to relegate to Serie B , the second highest Italian league, with only 22 points and eight points behind on a non-relegation place. In the following years, there was no immediate recovery there. It was not until 1959 that the team was able to qualify again for Serie A when a second place in Serie B, only behind Atalanta Bergamo , was occupied. Santiago Vernazza was the league's top scorer with nineteen goals in the second division season 1958/59. After the ascent, however, neither Vernazza nor the team of US Palermo showed first division performances and you had to deal with the direct relegation.

After relegation with Palermo, Santiago Vernazza left Sicily and joined AC Milan , where he played one season. With the Rossoneri , Vernazza, who acted in the position of an attacker, finished second in Serie A, four points behind Juventus Turin . Santiago Vernazza played 29 league games wearing AC Milan and scored fourteen goals, earning him eighth place in the list of top scorers in Serie A in 1960/61 . Despite his regular place in the team of coach Nereo Rocco Vernazza left Milan in the summer of 1961 after only one year and went to Vicenza to the local first division club Lanerossi Vicenza . In the 1960s and 70s, the club experienced the most successful period in the club's history with almost permanent membership in the first division, also thanks to financial support from the Lanerossi woolen goods group. Santiago Vernazza played football at the Stadio Romeo Menti for Vicenza from 1961 to 1963, and during that time he made 30 league games with three goals, a less favorable rate for a striker. After he had achieved placements in midfield of the Serie A two years in a row with Lanerossi Vicenza, Vernazza ended his career as a football player at the end of the 1962/63 season at the age of 35.

After the end of his career, Santiago Vernazza returned to his home in Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires. When he returned to Palermo in April 2009, Vernazza received an official US Palermo jersey with his name in recognition of his achievements as a player in US Palermo in the run-up to the Serie A game between US Palermo and FC Turin .

National team

Between 1950 and 1955, Santiago Vernazza was used in six international matches for the Argentine national team . He scored a goal. Like many Argentine footballers of his generation, he was denied participation in a football world championship , since the Second World War between 1938 and 1950 did not allow for a world championship and Argentina only qualified for a football world championship again in 1958 . Santiago Vernazza would have been able to take part in this because of his achievements, but his involvement in Italy made further international matches impossible, as legionnaires were not welcome in the national team at the time. In 1955 he was part of the Argentine squad when he won the Campeonato Sudamericano and came on two appearances during the competition as a substitute.

successes

• Argentine champion : 4 ×

1952 , 1953 , 1955 , 1956

• Top scorer of the Primera División : 1 ×

1951 with 19 hits

• Copa Dr. Carlos Ibargurs : 1 ×

1952

Web links

• Santiago Vernazza in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile of the player
• Player data
• Information about the player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lanacion.com.ar: Murió Santiago Vernazza, ex integrante de "La Maquinita" de River (November 12, 2017) , accessed on November 14, 2017