Giuseppe Chiappella
Giuseppe Chiappella called Beppe ( born September 28, 1924 in San Donato Milanese, Italy, † December 26, 2009 in Milan, Italy ) was an Italian football player and later coach.
When he played for the Active SC Pisa and Fiorentina, with whom he was in 1956 Italian football champions. As a coach, he also oversaw the first Fiorentina and took this twice the Coppa Italia and even the European Cup Winners' Cup to Florence. Later he trained even as Napoli, Cagliari and Inter Milan.
- 2.1 successes with Fiorentina
- 2.2 Naples, Cagliari and Inter
- 2.3 Further stations
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Playing career
Club career
Giuseppe Chiappella was born on September 28, 1924 in San Donato Milanese, a northern Italian city in Lombardy near Milan. As a result of the Second World War he moved with his parents later to Pisa, where he began playing football. In the first year after the war, in 1946, he signed a contract with the local SC Pisa. In the club Chiappella played until 1949 and made at this time 97 games and scored four goals for the SC Pisa.
In 1949, he joined Fiorentina, who at that time was among the top teams in Italian football. With Fiorentina Giuseppe Chiappella was very successful in the following eleven years, and won in the season 1955/56, the Italian championship when you were first in Serie A with twelve points ahead of AC Milan. Due to the championship in 1956 Fiorentina was entitled to participate in the European Cup of Champions 1956/57, where it moved after beating IFK Norrköping in Sweden, Grasshopper Club Zurich from Switzerland and Red Star Belgrade from Yugoslavia to the final and met Real Madrid. Against the White Ballet, as the team of Real Madrid was called in those days to players like Raymond Kopa, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Francisco Gento, the crew of the Viola goal proved not strong enough and was defeated in the final in Madrid Estadio Santiago Bernabéu 0: 2 In operation, the league season 1956/57, was as successful as the previous one. This time, it was enough after all the game day but only for runners with six points behind AC Milan, one could still refer to the second place in the previous year. In the following three years to 1960 was Fiorentina, where at that time players like defender Sergio Cervato, goalkeeper Enrico Albertosi or Sweden striker Kurt Hamrin under contract, three more times runner-up twice behind Juventus and once behind the AC Milan. Furthermore, one twice reached the final of the Coppa Italia, but lost each time. On September 24, 1958 had been set against Lazio 0-1 in the cold, two years later, Juventus too great a hurdle represents the final defeat against Juventus in Rome the career completion of Giuseppe Chiappella at Fiorentina is, at the age of 36 years ended in the active career of the bias Oppers in the summer of 1960. For Fiorentina he had accrued in 329 Serie A games and had five hit in the opponent's goal.
National
Between 1953 and 1957 it brought Giuseppe Chiappella to seventeen matches in the Italian national football team. A scoring did not succeed there. His international debut he gave under coach Carlino Beretta on November 13, 1953 in a 2-1 success of the Italians in a friendly match against Egypt in Cairo. Exactly one month later, he experienced his second international match, 3-0 against Czechoslovakia on December 13, 1953 in Genoa, he belonged to the Italian team. As a result he made in 1954 only one match (3-0 against Egypt ) and was not nominated for the FIFA World Cup in Switzerland. It was not until the beginning of 1955 the new coach Lajos Czeizler put him back in Stuttgart bewann Italy 2-1 Germany. In the following years, Giuseppe Chiappella developed into a regular in the national team and was until 1957 on thirteen other international appearances before his career ended in the national team in 1957. His last international match made Chiappella on 22 December 1957 in Milan against Portugal. Italy won 3-0.
Coaching career
Success with Fiorentina
In the summer of 1960 was Giuseppe Chiappella successor to the Argentinian Luis Carniglia as coach of Fiorentina. At the beginning of 1961 he was made redundant due to lack of success. Previously, to notice that the performance of the Fiorentina were very different in home games and away games. So jumped in the Stadio Artemio Franchi most significant victories out ( among other 3-0 against Juventus, 4-0 win against Lazio and Udinese Calcio 3-0 ), away they played against inferior teams often draw or even lost (for example 1-1 at Catania, 0-1 at relegated AC Naples or 0:2 with SPAL ). Successor of Chiappella was the Hungarians and former world-class player Nándor Hidegkuti. Under Hidegkuti Fiorentina won in the 1960/61 season, the Coppa Italia final against Lazio and the European Cup Winners' Cup against Rangers. Although he was not at the time of winning the title more Florence coach Giuseppe Chiappella deserves nevertheless a certain proportion of the two title wins, as he had cared for the team in the first part of the season.
Hidegkuti was until 1962 coach of the Viola. He was then replaced by the later Italian coach Ferruccio Valcareggi, who coached until 1964 for his part in Florence before moving to Atalanta. In the summer of 1964, the leadership of the floor AC Fiorentina Giuseppe Chiappella appointed as the new coach of the first team. Then Chiappella led the team in Serie A 1964/65 to fifth, reaching participation in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup the following year, where, however, already came early against the Czechoslovak representatives Spartak Brno ZJS. In the Italian League Chiappella with Florence in the season 1965/66, was fourth, only behind Inter Milan, Bologna FC and newly promoted Napoli. In the same year Chiappellas team reached the final of the Coppa Italia, where they met the southern Italian Zweitdivisionär U.S. Catanzaro. The final was won by the Fiorentina 2-1 after extra time, the decisive goal in the penultimate minute of extra time scored Mario Bertini. By winning the Italian Cup football Fiorentina was allowed to start for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1966/67, but where you failed in the first round of the Hungarian Cup Winner Raba ETO Gyor. The following season, 1966 /67 was the last of Giuseppe Chiappella as a responsible manager of ACF Fiorentina. In Serie A, they finished fifth and was eliminated in the national cup in the semi-final against Inter Milan.
Naples, Cagliari and Inter
For the season 1968/69 was Giuseppe Chiappella from Bruno Pesaola as coach of SSC Napoli. With Pesaola he swapped the job, this was the new coach of Fiorentina and took with the viola in his first season, the Italian championship. Chiappella reach such successes with the Napoli not being quite jumped out acceptable placements in Serie A held under the auspices Giuseppe Chiappellas. After they had always reached in the first two years with coach Chiappella placements in the middle of the league, took the team of Napoli in the 1970/71 season in third place in the Premier League, you had only the two Milan clubs Inter and AC the precedence leave. It turned the Napoli team with only nineteen goals against the best defense of the Italian Elite League. Not so good, however, it ran into the following season, as only eighth place was occupied at the end. Also in the UEFA Cup 1971/72 different Napoli in the first round with 1:2 after return match against Romania's Rapid Bucharest. 1972/73 was almost confirm the previous placement of Naples, it was again achieved after all the game day in ninth place a midfield position. In the previous year Giuseppe Chiappella had advanced to the final of the Napoli into Coppa Italia, where, however, was the AC Milan failed in 0:2.
After the end of the 1972/73 season Giuseppe Chiappella left Napoli and became the new coach of Cagliari Calcio. The Italian champions from 1970 had established itself in the years after the championship in the middle of the league and finished well in the two years the coach shaft Chiappellas with twice tenth place only ranks in the middle of the series A. In the course of the season 1974/75 was Giuseppe Chiappella because of failure dismissed and replaced by the later champion coach of AC Turin, Luigi Radice. In the summer of 1975, he was then coach of Inter Milan, which he led to fourth place in Serie A in his first season. The same result was reached in the following 1976/77 season, before the paths of Inter Milan and Giuseppe Chiappella parted. In his last season Inter Giuseppe Chiappella led the team around players like defender Giacinto Facchetti, Sandro Mazzola midfielder or attacker Pietro Anastasi into the final of the Coppa Italia, where, however, the local rivals AC Milan defeated 0:2.
More Stations
After his departure from Inter Milan Giuseppe Chiappella coaching in the wake nurmehr smaller clubs with relatively little success. So it was after he had in 1978 again briefly coached Fiorentina in Serie A 1978/79 Coach of Hellas Verona, with whom he promptly descended into thirty league games as Table and nurfünfzehn points obtained in the B series.
He then went to Pisa SC, his hometown club of players, where he 1979/80 the fourteenth rank achieved in Serie B, which claims the leadership of the SC Pisa was not enough.
After separation from SC Pisa was Giuseppe Chiappella a year later new Responsible on the sidelines during Zweitdivisionär Pescara Calcio, where he was co-responsible for the descent of the club to Serie C1. It was the last series B with only seventeen points and achieved nineteen points behind a non- relegation zone.
Two years after the descent with Pescara held Giuseppe Chiappella his last coaching job when he was a year the AC Arezzo led as a trainer and only just avoided relegation from the second division. After that Chiappella retired from football business and living in Milan. On December 26, 2009 Giuseppe Chiappella died at the age of 85 years in Milan, after he had already suffered in previous years, of a lung disease.
Achievements
As a player
- Italian Master: 1 ×
- Finalist in the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1 ×
- Finals in the Coppa Italia: 2 ×
As a coach
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1 ×
- Italian Cup Winners' Cup: 2 ×
- Finalist in the Coppa Italia: 2 ×