Tommaso Maestrelli

Tommaso Maestrelli
The Italian football coach Tommaso Maestrelli in the 1970s
Personnel
birthday	October 7, 1922
place of birth	Pisa ,  Italy
date of death	2nd December 1976
Place of death	Rome ,  Italy
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	AS Bari
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1948	AS Bari	146 (20)
1948-1951	AS Roma	95 0(4)
1951-1953	FC Lucca	47 0(1)
1953-1957	AS Bari	73 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1941-1942	Italy	14 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1963-1964	AS Bari
1964-1968	AS Reggina
1968-1971	US Foggia
1971-1975	Lazio Rome
1975-1976	Lazio Rome
1 Only league games are given.

Tommaso Maestrelli (born October 7, 1922 in Pisa , Italy , † December 2, 1976 in Rome , Italy) was an Italian football player and coach . As a player he was active for AS Bari , AS Roma and FC Lucca . He later coached Bari, AS Reggina , US Foggia and Lazio Rome , with whom he became Italian football champion in 1974.

Player career

Tommaso Maestrelli was born on October 7th, 1922 in Pisa, Tuscany. When he was fourteen years old, he moved to Bari with his parents in southern Italy . Maestrelli's football talent was soon discovered there and he was appointed to the first team of AS Bari by the Hungarian coach of AS Bari , József Ging , in 1938. There Tommaso Maestrelli, who acted in the position of a defender, played right away in Serie A , the highest football league in Italy, where in his first season, Serie A 1938/39 , the eleventh place was reached. After that same place was regained in the following year, the AS Bari team had to accept relegation to Serie B in the 1940/41 season after the last place in the first division was occupied with ten points behind a non- relegation place after all match days . Tommaso Maestrelli stayed despite the relegation in Bari and managed the direct promotion in 1942. The first division season 1942/43 he ended with his club again on a relegation zone, which would have meant the renewed slide into the second division if Italian football was not in In connection with the Second World War, he took a two-year compulsory break from summer 1943 to summer 1945. After the end of the war, the game continued and Tommaso Maestrelli was still active at AS Bari. In the championship 1945/46 , which in addition to the determination of the Italian champion also included a qualifying round for next year's Serie A and Serie B, the promotion for the first division, in which AS Bari came seventh in the season 1946/47 reached his best first division placement to date. In 1947/48 they finished eleventh. After the end of the 1947/48 season, Tommaso Maestrelli's time at AS Bari ended, he left the club after ten years and 146 league games with twenty goals.

For the 1948/49 season , Tommaso Maestrelli signed a contract with the capital club AS Roma . He stayed there for three years, placed in the lower midfield of Serie A in the first two seasons and had to go into the second division with AS Roma in the 1950/51 season, which is the only relegation of the traditional club to the series to date B meant. Then Tommaso Maestrelli went to FC Lucca , today's amateur club, which was then in the first football league in Italy. However, in Maestrelli's first year in Lucca, he was relegated to the second division. After relegation, Tommaso Maestrelli remained loyal to his club and continued to play in Serie B for a year before returning to AS Bari, where his career began. In Apulia he played another four years in Serie B without making it to the top division again.

Coaching career

Bari, Reggina and Foggia

After the end of his active career as a football player, Tommaso Maestrelli began a coaching career. At first he worked as an assistant at his old club AS Bari. In 1957 he was appointed assistant coach by Federico Allasio . Also under Allasio's successors Paolo Tabanelli, Francesco Capocasale, Onofrio Fusco, Luis Carniglia and Pietro Magni and again under Allasio, Tommaso Maestrelli subsequently acted as assistant coach at AS Bari before he himself was promoted to head coach of the Apulians after the dismissal of Magni in 1963 has been. With the AS Bari team, Tommaso Maestrelli played in his first season as responsible coach in Serie A, but had to accept relegation there. They finished last with 22 points from thirty league games and were five points behind a non-relegation place.

Then Tommaso Maestrelli went as a coach in the third Italian division for AS Reggina , which he led in Serie C 1964/65 for promotion to Serie B. The first place was occupied with a counter in front of AS Taranto . The following second division season almost ended for AS Reggina with the direct march through to Serie A, only a 0-0 on the last matchday against Calcio Lecco decided the race for the third promotion place in favor of Ozo Mantova . After the following season ended with a midfield position, the last season of Tommaso Maestrelli as coach of AS Reggina ended with reaching rank nine after all match days. In the 1967/68 season, however, the death of Reggina player Italo Alaimo, who suffered a heart attack during a medical check-up and died.

In the summer of 1968 Tommaso Maestrelli left Reggio Calabria and became the new coach of US Foggia , also based in southern Italy. In Foggia , Maestrelli had the goal of leading the club back to Serie A, which failed significantly in the first season with ninth place in Serie B. Nevertheless, the club management stuck to their coach, which resulted in second place in the Serie B 1969/70. This made the return of US Foggia to the first division. There, however, the direct relegation had to be accepted, they finished third from bottom, with only the worse goal difference against Hellas Verona and Fiorentina sealing the relegation of Foggia. Tommaso Maestrelli was no longer employed as a coach of the US Foggia after the unsuccessful relegation. He went to Lazio Rome, which was relegated together with Foggia in Serie A 1970/71 .

Success at Lazio

in Rome Tommaso Maestrelli was the successor to Roberto Lovati, who had taken over for the sacked Juan Carlos Lorenzo on an interim basis at the end of the 1970/71 season , but could no longer prevent relegation. In Serie B 1971/72, Lazio was successful right from the start and finished second at the end of the season, only behind Ternana Calcio , but before the third promoted US Palermo . The distance to a non-promotion place was three points. The attack by Lazio was the most successful in the league, with 48 goals scored in 38 games.

After the recovery, the Serie A in 1972/73 went very much according to the wishes of the Lazio supporters. Tommaso Maestrelli's team came third in the table, just two points behind new Italian champions Juventus Turin and one point behind runner-up AC Milan . Reaching third place in Serie A in 1972/73 meant qualifying for the 1973/74 UEFA Cup , where they met Swiss representative FC Sion in the first round . After a 3-0 first leg win at the Olympic Stadium in Rome with three goals from Giorgio Chinaglia , Lazio's best player of the day, they lost 3-1 in Switzerland , but still reached the second round with a goal difference of 4-3. There came against the English representative Ipswich Town, however, when they lost 4-0 in Ipswich and a 4-2 win in the second leg in Rome no longer made progress possible. In the league, however, Lazio Rome was a lot more successful in the 1973/74 season . The first game of the season against Lanerossi Vicenza was won directly 3-0. Even after that, Lazio played very successfully and soon established themselves at the top of the table , which during this time had players such as Chinaglia, Luciano Re Cecconi and Giuseppe Wilson in its ranks. On May 12, 1974, Lazio Rome was the new Italian champion after a 1-0 win at their home Stadio Olimpico with a goal by Giorgio Chinaglia against US Foggia, which meant the club's first title win in its history. After a draw in the last league game against FC Bologna , Lazio had three points ahead of the new runner-up Juventus Turin at the end of the season. As champions, Lazio would have actually qualified for the 1974/75 European Cup, but as punishment for fanatic rioting in last year's UEFA Cup game against Ipswich Town, UEFA refused the club to participate in the European Cup. Juventus replaced Lazios.

Starting the season as defending champion, Lazio confirmed the achievements shown in the championship season the following year. For a long time you belonged to the narrow circle in the battle for the championship 1974/75 . At the beginning of April 1975 it became known that Lazio's trainer Tommaso Maestrelli was suffering from liver cancer . He then withdrew from the football business and was replaced for the time of his illness by the previous assistant coach Roberto Lovati, who led Lazio to fourth place in the table, but suffered two heavy defeats during his tenure. Against AC Turin they lost 1: 5 in Rome on the day Maestrelli's illness was announced and Juventus Turin went 0-4. For the new season, the Lazio leadership no longer trusted Lovati and signed a young coach named Giulio Corsini in addition to various new players , who did not bring the hoped-for success and maneuvered Lazio into acute danger of relegation. After the ninth matchday and a 2-2 draw against Hellas Verona , Corsini was dismissed, the new coach was the recovered Tommaso Maestrelli. He managed to stay in the league with Lazio in the last second when a 2-2 win against Como Calcio after a 2-0 deficit on the last day of the match secured the first class. The better goal difference decided by Lazio compared to Ascoli Calcio , who had to relegate. Then Maestrelli gave up the coaching office and became sports director of Lazio. The new coach was the Brazilian Luís Vinício . However, Maestrelli did not hold the office of sports director for long. Maestrelli's cancer was soon diagnosed again and he died on December 2, 1976 in Rome. Tommaso Maestrelli was only 54 years old.

successes

• Italian champion : 1 ×

1973/74 with Lazio Rome

• Promotion to Serie A : 2 ×

1969/70 with US Foggia

1971/72 with Lazio Rome

• Series C : 1 ×

1964/65 with AS Reggina

• Seminatore d'oro : 3 ×

1969 as coach of US Foggia

1973 as coach of Lazio Rome

1974 as coach of Lazio Rome

Web links

• Tommaso Maestrelli in the database of weltfussball.de
• Information on Maestrelli's work at Lazio (Italian)
• Profile of his playing career (Italian)
• Maestrelli's biography (Italian)