Ugo Pozzan

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Ugo Pozzan
Personnel
birthday December 29, 1929
place of birth San Martino Buon Albergo ,  Italy
date of death 4th November 1973
Place of death Verona ,  Italy
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
AC San Martino
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1953 Hellas Verona 121 (32)
1953-1957 Bologna FC 98 (21)
1957-1961 Lazio Rome 82 0(9)
1961–1962 AC Pisa 26 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1956 Italy 2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1966-1968 Hellas Verona
1968-1970 AC Pistoiese
1970-1972 Hellas Verona
1973 AC Pisa
1 Only league games are given.

Ugo Pozzan (born December 29, 1929 in San Martino Buon Albergo , † November 4, 1973 in Verona ) was an Italian football player and later coach. As an active cup winner with Lazio Rome and two-time Italian national player, he later coached Hellas Verona , AC Pistoiese and AC Pisa until his untimely death .

Player career

Ugo Pozzan was born on December 29, 1929 in the northern Italian town of San Martino Buon Albergo and learned to play football in the youth of Hellas Verona after he moved from AC San Martino to the provincial capital. Pozzan made his debut in 1949 in the first team of Hellas Verona, which was playing in the second-rate Serie B at the time , and was henceforth for the club for the following four years. During this time, the midfielder completed a total of 121 league games for Hellas, with 32 hits. However , they did not make it to Serie A. In the summer of 1953, Ugo Pozzan moved to FC Bologna in the first Italian football league, where he quickly established himself as a regular. In his first season in Bologna , the team of coach Giuseppe Viani reached seventh place in Serie A, a year later they finished fourth and qualified for the Mitropa Cup in 1955, which ended in the second round against the Czechoslovak representative Dukla Prague came. In 1955/56 they finished sixth. After four years, Ugo Pozzan left FC Bologna at the end of the 1956/57 season. He had previously played in 98 league games for the club, in which 21 hits were recorded.

From 1957 Pozzan was under contract with Lazio Rome and barely managed to stay in the league in the first year. After a coach change to Fulvio Bernardini , Ugo Pozzan finally managed to win the first and only important title of his football career as a player from Lazio Rome. In the 1958 Coppa Italia - the first staging of this competition since 1943 - Lazio moved into the final after successes over Marzotto Valdagno and Juventus Turin , where AC Florence was waiting as opponents . With a goal from Maurilio Prini in the 30th minute of the game, Lazio decided the final for themselves and won the Coppa Italia for the first time in the club's history. Only three years later, however, you had to go into the second division after you had finished last in Serie A in 1960/61 .

After relegation with Lazio Rome in 1961, Ugo Pozzan left the club where he had already lost his regular place. After 82 league games and nine goals for the Laziali , Pozzan went to AC Pisa for a year , where he ended his career after 26 league games with one goal in the summer of 1962 at the age of 33.

In 1956, Ugo Pozzan was used in two games of the Italian national football team . Both games against Argentina (final score: 0: 1) and Brazil (final score: 0: 2) in the context of a trip to South America ended without scoring and with defeats.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Ugo Pozzan became a coach. He had his first job from 1966 to 1968 at his old club Hellas Verona, where he made promotion to Serie A in his second season in a coaching team with Nils Liedholm . This was achieved by finishing second in Serie B in 1967/68 , only behind SSC Palermo . After the climb was Giancarlo Cadè new coach of Hellas Verona and Ugo Pozzan took over as coach at AC Pistoiese in the C series . Pozzan also worked here for two years. After an eleventh place in the first season, however, in the summer of 1970, as the penultimate of the Series C, you had to start the fourth division. Then the club and coach parted ways again. Pozzan then returned to Verona and took over again as a coach at Hellas, where he succeeded Renato Lucchi after nine matchdays of Serie A 1970/71 . With eleventh place succeeded at the end of the season relegation. The following year Hellas Verona with coach Ugo Pozzan was thirteenth and held the class again, this time with one point ahead of the first relegated AC Mantova .

In 1973 Pozzan was briefly coach of AC Pisa in Serie C, but died on November 4th of the same year in Verona at the age of 43 of leukemia .

successes

As a player

1958 with Lazio Rome

As a trainer

1967/68 with Hellas Verona

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personal data
SURNAME Pozzan, Ugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH San Martino Buon Albergo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1973
Place of death Verona , Italy