Emiliano Mondonico
Emiliano Mondo Nico ( born March 9, 1947 in Rivolta d' Adda ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach. As an active most of the time active in U.S. Cremonese, he was as a coach with the club very successful and led for the first time in this series the A. Furthermore, coaching Mondo Nico, among other things Atalanta Bergamo and Torino. With the latter club he was Italian Cup Winners' Cup.
Playing career
Emiliano Mondo Nico, born on March 9, 1947 in the northern Italian Rivolta d' Adda in the province of Cremona in Lombardy, started playing football first at a local club, but soon moved to the youth department of U.S. Cremonese. In this club Mondo Nico debuted then in 1966 in the first team and played only once until 1968 when the club with which he promotion from the fourth division series D managed in his last year in the third-class series C. Then Emiliano Mondonico changed but after 46 league games and nineteen gates for Cremonese the club and joined the AC Turin, where, however, he hardly came in two years for use, made just fourteen league matches and in 1970 further changed to AC Monza. Here, the midfielder was a regular in the B series, made 23 league appearances with seven goals and helped Monza with the league in the second Italian football league.
After one season at Monza Emiliano Mondo Nico joined the first division club Atalanta Bergamo, where he, however, as before, could hardly operating times with Torino and so only two league games in the Serie A 1971/72 came from. After a year Mondonico Bergamo left again and returned to U.S. Cremonese, where he eventually spent the rest of his playing career. With Cremonese he made in the 1976/77 season promotion to Serie B, in the following years also managed to establish itself in the second division. Emiliano Mondo Nico played to 1979 in U.S. Cremonese and made in this second period, the club membership 178 league games in which he scored 69 Torerfolge. After his career end at the age of 32 years Mondo Nico joined the coaching staff of U.S. Cremonese and helped the club this function a little later to return to Serie A after more than half a century.
Coaching career
After two years as coach of the youth of U.S. Cremonese Emiliano Mondonico replaced in the summer of 1981, Guido Vincenzi as coach of the first team of the club, the two for a few months yet formed a double team on the sidelines. In the following five years, Mondo Nico was responsible for the sporting successes of U.S. Cremonese and led the club with a first place in Serie B 1983/84 in the series A. This meant the return of U.S. Cremonese in the highest Italian league after was represented only so far in the premiere season 1929/30, there. But when promoted to Cremonese could not keep up in Serie A, with space fifteen was the direct re- descent under Mondo Nico. As it then failed the targeted return to the excellence of the year, ended the cooperation of Emiliano Mondo Nico and U.S. Cremonese after the coach had previously been fourteen years continuously active as a player and coach in Cremona.
After a one-year spell at Como Calcio, with whom he was ninth in Serie A 1986/87, took over Nico Mondo 1987, the coach of Atalanta Bergamo. In Bergamo, he worked in the following three years quite successfully led the newly relegated from Serie A club back into the Premier League and could it also to get promoted directly as in the European Cup. Also in the 1989/90 season, the second Erstligajahr with Atalanta Bergamo, Mondo Nico created the promotion for the UEFA Cup, which made him increasingly interesting for bigger clubs. In the summer of 1990 he joined then the successor of Eugenio Fascetti at Erstligaaufsteiger Torino Calcio, where he had once been active as a player. In Turin succeeded Emiliano Mondonico to establish the traditional club in the upper realms of the Serie A and continuing to make it in Europe for attention. During the early nineties in Serie A resistant finishes in the top third of the table were obtained, one reached in the 1991/92 season the final of the UEFA Cup, after they had previously switched off teams such as Boavista Porto, AEK Athens or the star-studded Real Madrid. In the final hit Mondo Nicos team, which included players such as Enzo Scifo, Walter Casagrande or Rafael Martin Vazquez, Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After a 2-2 draw in the first leg in Turin, the goalless draw in the second leg, however, was not enough in Amsterdam to secure the title, since Ajax on away goals rule was ahead. A year later, it worked with a title win for the Torino Calcio Emiliano Mondonico. In the Coppa Italia 1992/93 they reached the final against AS Roma and sat here with 3:0 and 2:5 with the assistance of the away goals rule, which had a year earlier prevented the European Cup triumph through.
Emiliano Mondo Nico was until the summer of 1994 coach of Torino Calcio. He then returned to the dugout Atalanta Bergamo back and managed the club in his first year returning to the A. series in the next two years established Mondo Nico Atalanta in the first division, but had in the 1997/98 season the descent into the series B to accept. After the descent, the paths of Emiliano Mondo Nico and Atalanta Bergamo parted again, he took over again Torino Calcio in succession by Edoardo Reja. Mondo Nico Torino led back first Serie B 1998/99, but missed by a fifteenth place in the Serie A 1999/2000 as promoted in the league. After the descent Mondo Nico had to go to Turin, he took over the beginning of the next season as the successor to the Czech offensive gurus Zdeněk Zeman as coach when arg financially ailing ex- champion SSC Napoli. Again, however, Mondo Nico rose with his team at the end of the season in Serie B from.
2001-2003 Emiliano Mondo Nico was then briefly twice coach of the second division Cosenza Calcio. In the Serie B 2003/ 04 he took over the course of the season the post of head coach at Fiorentina and reached the two -time champions the promotion to Serie A. beginning of next Erstligasaison it ran for Fiorentina but are less readily and Mondo Nico had his post vacate after only seven games for Sergio Buso.
After his release in Florence Emiliano Mondo Nico was two years without a job as a coach. During this time he worked a lot for television, mainly as an expert in live transmissions. Before the season 2006/ 07 Mondo Nico returned to the dugout and looked after for a year second-division UC AlbinoLeffe. He then returned after 21 years back to Cremona and coached again for two years U.S. Cremonese, which was now slid into Serie C1. In two years at Cremonese Mondo Nico missed in both cases, the return to the second division, the working paper ended in the summer of 2009. The next two years were spent the coach again at UC AlbinoLeffe on the outskirts of Bergamo, had his engagement there, but in early 2011 as a result of cancer finish. Well again, Mondo Nico joined about a year later the successor of Attilio Tesser when strong relegation-threatened Novara first division, but was soon replaced by his own predecessor.
Achievements
As a player
- Series C: 1x
- Series D: 1x
As a coach
- Mitropa Cup: 1x
- Italian Cup win: 1x
- Promotion to Serie A: 5x