Ugo Ferrante

Ugo Ferrante
Personnel
birthday	July 18, 1945
place of birth	Vercelli ,  Italy
date of death	November 29, 2004
Place of death	Vercelli ,  Italy
size	188 cm
position	defense
Juniors
Years	station
	US Pro Vercelli
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1972	AC Florence	179 (6)
1972-1976	Lanerossi Vicenza	84 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1970-1971	Italy	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ugo Ferrante (born July 18, 1945 in Vercelli , † November 29, 2004 ibid) was an Italian football player . At club level, especially when Fiorentina active, he took the national team of his home country and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico in part.

Career

Club career

Ugo Ferrante was born on July 18, 1945 in Vercelli , Piedmont . He learned to play football in the youth department of the US Pro Vercelli , who was a multiple Italian champion in the 1920s, but has since disappeared into the immersion of amateur football. From Vercelli, Ferrante signed his first professional contract in the summer of 1963 with the top Tuscan club Fiorentina . The Fiorentina , up to now once Italian champion, belonged to the absolute establishment of the Calcio at that time . In Florence Ugo Ferrante was under contract from 1963 to 1972 and completed 172 league games for the club during that time, in which he scored six goals. Ferrante experienced nine very successful years with his employer, which were crowned by winning the Italian championship in the 1968/69 season . During that season, the team led by captain Giancarlo De Sisti , Brazilian striker Amarildo or defender Giuseppe Brizi took first place in Serie A with a lead of four points over second-placed US Cagliari . Ugo Ferrante made thirty of 34 possible league games during the championship season and also contributed one goal to winning the title. Ferrante had already won a national title with Fiorentina three years earlier. In the Coppa Italia 1965/66 they reached the final after successes over CFC Genoa , US Palermo , CC Catania and the two Milanese clubs AC and Inter , where the southern Italian underdog US Catanzaro was waiting as an opponent . But Catanzaro held up well, forcing the great Fiorentina into extra time, where the Swede Kurt Hamrin scored the victory for Fiorentina with his 119th minute goal. In the same year, the Mitropa Cup was won, albeit quite insignificant .

Ugo Ferrante played at Fiorentina until the summer of 1972. He then joined Lanerossi Vicenza , which was in the lower midfield of the highest Italian football league. The defender played at the Stadio Romeo Menti for four years until 1976, during which time he made 84 league games for the club. He managed to score his own goal. Ugo Ferrante fought with Lanerossi Vicenza year after year against relegation to Serie B , but that is exactly what happened in the 1974/75 season . As third-bottom of the Serie A table, three points behind the rescue bank, Lanerossi rose to the second division for the first time since 1955. In Serie B, too, things went disastrous for LR Vicenza, after the end of all matchdays they were only in sixteen and were just three points ahead of the first relegated Piacenza Calcio . After the second division season 1975/76 Ugo Ferrante ended his footballing career at the age of 31.

National team

In 1970 and 1971, Ugo Ferrante made three appearances in the Italian national football team . A goal he did not succeed here. National coach Ferruccio Valcareggi called him into the Italian squad for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico . However, he was not used in the course of the tournament. The Italian team, however, reached the final of this World Cup, where they finally lost 4-1 to Brazil .

successes

• Italian championship : 1 ×

1968/69 with Fiorentina

• Italian cup win : 1 ×

1965/66 with AC Florence

• Mitropapokal : 1 ×

1966 with AC Florence

• Torneo di Viareggio : 1 ×

1966 with AC Florence

Further life

After the end of his playing career, Ugo Ferrante became a youth coach. Among other things, he worked in this role at his hometown club US Pro Vercelli or at the Piedmont youth team . Ferrante developed throat cancer in the early 2000s . The former defender died of this disease on November 29, 2004 in his hometown of Vercelli at the age of just 59. His name is often associated with the so-called curse of Fiorentina . This is based on an accumulated number of members of the association who died early or who were seriously ill in past decades. For example, midfielder Bruno Beatrice died in 1987 at the age of 39 of leukemia , Stefano Borgonovo in 2013 at 49 years of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Nello Saltutti , who died of a heart attack in 2003 at the age of 56. These early deaths of numerous Fiorentina professionals in the 1970s and 1980s are attributed to extensive doping in expert circles .

Web links

• Ugo Ferrante in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile of the player
• List of international matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kurzpass.ch ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The curse of Fiorentina 
2. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de The curse of the lilies
3. ↑ taz.de Place of Death