Giorgio Puia
Giorgio Puia ( born March 8, 1938 in Gorizia ) is an Italian former football player and later coach. As Active long time for the Torino under contract and further participants in the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico, it hardly noteworthy successes were granted as a coach.
Career
Club career
Giorgio Puia was born in 1938 in Gorizia, a town in north-eastern Italy, and began at the local club pro of Gorizia with the football games. From here, the leaders of the U.S. Triestina transferred him in the summer of 1958 to Trieste, where Puia played in the following two years. With the U.S. Triestina the young defensive midfielder experienced in his first professional season major league football, but increased with the started as a climber triester team as Penultimate Serie A 1958/59 to Serie B, where he still acted a play time for Triestina as a stopper, but then joined the club.
From 1960 Giorgio Puia stood at Lane Rossi Vicenza under contract, then resistant Erstligist. In three years in Vicenza jumped in all cases out placements in the middle of the Serie A highlight is most likely a seventh place in the 1962 season / 63. Overall, Giorgio Puia completed 81 games for Lane Rossi Vicenza, scoring nineteen goals.
From 1963 to 1972 Giorgio Puia then eventually played nine years for the Torino in Italy's top flight football. With Torino twice succeeded success in the Coppa Italia, the Italian football cup. For the first time successful was this one Coppa Italia 1967/68, when they won the title by was shown in a final round of first place with two points ahead of AC Milan. While in league play while constantly placements in the upper middle, but never a serious approach to the summit reach, you showed up in the cup competition a second time victorious, in the 1970 season / 71. Here, the team continued to players like Luciano Castellini, Giorgio Ferrini or Claudio Sala 5-3 on penalties against AC Milan through and was able to win the Coppa Italia for the fourth time for the AC Torino. At this time, the career of Giorgio Puia was already in its final stages, a year later, he announced his career end at the age of 34 years. Previously, he had accrued in nine years at 250 league games for the Torino and had scored ten goals in the process.
After the end of his active career as a football player was Giorgio Puia coach, although he only briefly and worked in this capacity in the low amateur. So he coached only few months, the teams of ASD Calcio Ivrea, the AS Biellese and U.S. Latina. In 1984 he had in his Latina today last coach station.
National
Between 1962 and 1970, it brought Giorgio Puia to a total of seven appearances in the Italian national football team. A scoring this did not succeed. From coach Ferruccio Valcareggi he was appointed to the Italian squad for the World Cup in Mexico in 1970, but was not used during the tournament. The Italian team, however, reached the final at the World Cup, after being defeated in the semifinals Germany in the famous match of the century. In the final one then they lost Brazil.
Achievements
- Italian Cup victory: 2 ×