Angelo Sormani

Angelo Miguel Benedicto Sormani ( born July 3, 1939 in Jaú, Brazil ) is a former Brazilian- Italian footballer and coach, who took part with the national team of Italy at the football World Cup in 1962.

Playing career

Club career

Angelo Sormani began at FC Santos playing football. In 1958 he made his debut in the team around the young Pele in the first team. In Santos Sormani played football for three years before 1961, the talent scout Ozo Mantova, today's AC Mantova, were aware of the 22 -year-old attacker. In the summer of 1961 Sormani then moved to the Lombard city.

As Sormani in 1961 came to Mantua, Mantova Ozo had just been promoted to Serie A after second place behind the AC Venice was reached in the second division 1960/61 season. In his first season in the then best football league in the world Ángelo Sormani developed first-team regular and made 31 of 34 possible regular season games for Ozo Mantova. He succeeded in attaining this sixteen goals, which earned him third place in the scoresheet. His club, however, was able to celebrate the league, it was the ninth -ranked. The season 1962/63 ended Ozo Mantova on a midfielder rank, but this time in the back of the midfield. Angelo Sormani scored many goals again, this time thirteen in number. After the 1962/63 season he joined the club and played from then on for AS Roma. The Roma, however, he was unable to match the performance of Mantua and scored only six goals in 25 games this season, the Roma was finally twelfth in Serie A 1963/64. After only a year in Italy's capital, he went on to Sampdoria, still later placed in the previous table as the Roma. But even in the capital of Liguria Angelo Sormani was not very successful. Although he worked in thirty games of the season with Sampdoria, but it brought only two goals this season, and the league has only just reached.

Angelo Sormani in 1965 left Sampdoria Genoa and joined AC Milan in which sought a replacement for the migrated for Napoli striker after the departure of José Altafini. Sormani is developed on the side of his compatriot Amarildo during his time at Milan first-team regular. In the 1965/66 season, he was involved in 32 of 34 league games of Milan and scored 21 goals this season, which meant winning the top scorer. AC Milan was at the end of the season only seventh, which may well be because that alone Sormani was responsible for nearly half of Milan hit. The following season saw AC Milan on a disappointing eighth place, Sormani was unable to match the performance of the pre-season and also made only four goals in eighteen games. 1967/68 was the season for Sormani and AC Milan pleasing, they finished in Serie A in first place with nine points ahead of Napoli and Sormani scored eleven goals this season. Due to the championship of 1968, AC Milan was in 1968/69 entitled to participate in the European Cup of Champions, where the team of coach Nereo Rocco after beating Malmö FF, Celtic and Manchester United fought his way to the final. There they defeated Ajax at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid 4-1, Sormani managed to make the score 3-1 predetermining end. In the same year Sormani played with Milan for the World Champions' Cup against the Argentine won the Copa Libertadores winners Estudiantes de La Plata to 3:0 and 1:2. In the first leg at San Siro reach Angelo Sormani two goals to make it 1-0 and 3-0. In the current league season it did not go so well for Milan, only reached a third place behind the ACF Fiorentina and Cagliari U.S.. Even his last season at AC Milan could not finish with a title Angelo Sormani, they finished fourth in the standings.

After the 1969/70 season Angelo Sormani changed again the club and joined the SSC Naples. In the south of Italy, he played two years less successful football. Although he made many season games, great number of goals not reach him. His club played in the season, however, very successful and finished third. 1971/72 was found but then again in the midfield and was only eight, Sormani get only two goals this season in 28 games. For the 1972/73 season he then went to Florence, where he played, not used as a regular player, another year football. In 1973 he moved to Lane Rossi Vicenza, where he. Further three years, first as a regular player and then played mostly sitting on the bench, before he ended his career in 1976 in Vicenza at the age of 37 years

National

After his move to Ozo Mantova Angelo Sormani took Italian citizenship and could henceforth deny caps for the Italian national football team. He stood in the squad, which for the Football World Cup 1962 selected the two national coach Paolo Mazza and Giovanni Ferrari in Chile. At the tournament in South America Sormani was used in a game of two-time FIFA World champion, in the game against Switzerland, the last group match when Italy could no longer procure the next round. Despite the 3-0 success you resigned as third in the group behind Germany and the host. Total Angelo Sormani played seven times in the Italian national football team and scored two goals.

Coaching career

After the end of his career as a football player Angelo Sormani worked for a short time as a football coach. In 1980, he was responsible for a short time the team of Napoli, Napoli after the previous coach Luís Vinício, also a former Serie A player, was dismissed. But in the same year replacing it again Rino Marchesi. Six years later, took over Sormani AS Roma as coach as successor to the sacked Sven -Goran Eriksson. In Rome he had as coach just a moment and was replaced for the new season by Nils Liedholm.

Later Angelo Sormani worked as a commentator on Italian television. His son Adolfo Sormani also played soccer, among other things, for the AC Parma and Rimini Calcio, but could not build on the successes of the Father. Later Adolfo became a coach and coached Calcio Portogruaro Summaga for example, and was from 2007 to 2009 assistant coach at Juventus.

Achievements

Italian Champion: 1967/68
Italian Cup Winners: 1963/64, 1966/67,
European Cup Winners' Cup: 1967/68
European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1968/69
World Cup: 1969

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