Umberto Caligaris

Umberto Caligaris
Umberto Caligaris in the Juventus jersey
Personnel
birthday	July 26, 1901
place of birth	Casale Monferrato ,  Italy
date of death	October 19, 1940
Place of death	Turin ,  Italy
size	171 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	AS Casale
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1919-1928	AS Casale	at least 119 (13)
1928-1935	Juventus Turin	178 0(0)
1935-1937	Brescia Calcio	40 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922-1934	Italy	59 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1935-1937	Brescia Calcio
1938-1939	Modena FC
1939-1940	Juventus Turin
1 Only league games are given.

Umberto Caligaris (born July 26, 1901 in Casale Monferrato , † October 19, 1940 in Turin ) was an Italian football player and coach .

Career

Together with Virginio Rosetta (left) and Gianpiero Combi (center), Caligaris (right) formed the trio dei ragionieri at Juventus and in the national team .

Umberto Caligaris began his football career at his hometown club, AS Casale . In 1928, Caligaris won the bronze medal with the Italian soccer team at the Summer Olympics . In the same year he moved to the emerging team of Juventus Turin . He was also a member of the victorious Italian team at the European Cup of National Football Teams from 1927 to 1930 .

Between 1931 and 1935 Umberto Caligaris won five consecutive Italian champions with the legendary Juventus team of the Quinquennio d'Oro .

In 1934 the defender was in Vittorio Pozzo's squad for the Italian national team for the football World Cup in his own country . Caligaris was not used under, but was still able to celebrate winning the world championship.

In 1935 he moved to Brescia Calcio in Serie B , where he ended his active career in 1937, after two years as a player- coach. In 1938/39 he coached Modena FC in Serie A. From 1939 until his death in 1940, the 59-time national player worked as the coach of Juventus Turin.

Umberto Caligaris died on October 19, 1940 at the age of 39. During an old man's game in which he and his old companions Giampiero Combi and Virginio Rosetta took part in the Stadio di Corso Sebastopoli , he had to leave the field after a few minutes and then be taken to the hospital, where he died of an aneurysm . Federico Munerati took over his position as coach of Juventus Turin .

In 2011 Caligaris was given a star on the Walk of Fame in the newly opened Juventus Stadium .

successes

In the club

• Italian championship : 1930/31 , 1931/32 , 1932/33 , 1933/34 , 1934/35

In the national team

• European National Team Cup : 1927–1930
• Bronze medal in the Summer Olympics : 1928
• World Champion : 1934

References

Web links

Commons : Umberto Caligaris  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Umberto Caligaris in the database of weltfussball.de
• Umberto Caligaris in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Detailed career data with photo (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vittorio Pozzo : È morto Caligaris. La Stampa , October 20, 1940, accessed August 2, 2012 (Italian). 
2. ^ Viaggio tra le Stelle: Umberto Caligaris. (No longer available online.) Www.juventus.com, July 26, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 (Italian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.