Alberto Bigon
Alberto " Albertino " Bigonville ( born October 31, 1947 in Padua, Veneto, Italy ) is an Italian former football player and later coach. When Active, he played the majority of his career for AC Milan and has been with Milan Italian Champion and European champions. As a coach Bigonville worked for Napoli, with whom he won the Scudetto in 1990 and the year after that in the Supercoppa Italiana was victorious. He was also, for example, for AC Cesena, Udinese Calcio and Swiss club FC Sion responsible.
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Playing career
Alberto Bigonville began playing football in 1964 with Calcio Padova in his native city of Padua in northern Italy. At Padua he played in the next three years to 1967 in the second-rate series B. In this time he made a total of 64 league games for the club, with the midfielder reach fourteen hits. In the summer of 1967 Calcio Padova Bigonville left and joined the SSC Napoli, where he did not really came to the course and only a few months it was sold in November 1967 to SPAL. In jersey SPAL Bigonville came in the 1967/68 season still to fourteen missions, but could not prevent the descent of the association. The following season in Serie B, he was part of the team of SPAL, which took direct walkover from the first to the third tier, an occurrence of which the Lombard club has until now not recovered properly.
For the season 1969/70 Alberto Bigonville changed again the club and played from then on for the U.S. Foggia. With the southerners he made in his first season promotion to the Serie A, after is in the second highest league in second place behind FC Varese and, in Catania. After promotion to Serie A, Foggia could not establish right in this and had already after one season again accept relegation, as depicted in the Contribute by Alberto Bigonville, who graduated in the 1970/71 season 28 of thirty possible league games, nothing changed. After the descent of Foggia, the Treaty of Alberto Bigonville not extended and he went to Lombardy to AC Milan.
When AC Milan, Alberto Bigonville despite big competition prevail on his position and became a regular player. In a team with players like Gianni Rivera, Angelo Anquilletti or Roberto Rosato Bigonville won with Milan in the 1972/73 season with a 1-0 playoff victory against the English representatives Leeds United in Thessaloniki, Greece, the European Cup Winners' Cup after previously taking other things Legia Warsaw, Spartak Moscow and Sparta Prague were defeated. Furthermore Bigonville won as a player of AC Milan in the years 1972, 1973 and 1977, three times the Coppa Italia, the Italian Football Cup. Two years after the last Cup victory Alberto Bigonville could, however, celebrate his greatest success as the Rossoneri than one 1978/79 the first place by three points finished second in the Serie A on the surprise runners-up AC Perugia and for the first time since 1968 back to the Italian masters crowned. But the success of AC Milan did not last long. As the reigning champion you had in 1980 relegated to Serie B after the club was involved in the Toto Nero scandal, the first great Italian football betting scandal. Mitabsteiger was Lazio Rome, which was considered a prime suspect in this scandal.
It was at that club Alberto Bigonville joined the 1980/81 season to provide direct resurgence. In contrast to his old club AC Milan Toto Nero scandal for Lazio Rome meant that the club was almost find all of the eighties in Serie B, respectively, in the lower realms of the Serie A. Alberto Bigonville kicked here until 1982 for Lazio and could not reach the resurgence until then. For the 1982/83 season he joined the now slid down to the third division former runner-up Lane Rossi Vicenza, where he graduated to 1984 a further 57 league games and twice made it into the second class missed relatively scarce. After the season 1983/84 had Alberto Bigons career as a football player at the age of 39 years to an end. In the same year he began his career as a football coach.
Coaching career
Starts at Conegliano, Reggina and Cesena
Immediately after the end of his career as an active football player was Alberto Bigonville before the 1984/85 season coach of the club unterklassigen Union Conegliano San Vendemiano, a fifth-tier. This, he supervised for two years and reached in two seasons the class Sener half in Campionato Interregional how today's series D was from 1981 to 1992. In this work, the scouts of the third division side Reggina Calcio at Alberto Bigonville were attentive and he received an offer from the Southern Italians. For the 1986/87 season Bigonville was then coach of Reggina Calcio and reached with the club - he was the first coach after a re-formed in the summer of 1986 - an acceptable seventh place in Serie C1.
After the end of the season 1986/87 was Alberto Bigonville new coach at AC Cesena. Cesena was previously won by B in a table third in the series Rise Playoffs against U.S. Lecce and U.S. Cremonese returned to the excellence after the club was previously to find four seasons second-rate. After the climb to Cesena could fix immediately in Serie A and reached under coach Alberto Bigonville in the 1987/88 season in ninth place in the table, which had the safe relegation result. Here Cesena was able to convince against very good opponents, above all, they played against Juventus, Inter Milan, as well as against AC Milan draw and defeated both Hellas Verona, Master from 1985, as well as Sampdoria. Over the entire season across the team of Alberto Bigonville only suffered two home defeats. Each 0:1 ended the games against Napoli or against Pescara Calcio. Away, however, the balance of the riser was incomparably worse, it jumped just two wins - significantly against Juventus and Hellas Verona - out. In the following season, a similar picture, as Cesena could not make a single away game victorious and import all eight victories in the Stadio Dino Manuzzi, at the end but still with room thirteen held the class showed.
Successful time at Napoli
Under coach Ottavio Bianchi, Napoli had in the second half of the eighties, the most successful period in their history until today. Il Napoli di Maradona, as the team was called to game designers and audience favorite Diego Maradona, the Brazilian Careca and the Italian attacker Andrea Carnevale, reached under Bianchi in 1987 for the first time in club history to win the Scudetto. Two years later you could also win the UEFA Cup in the metropolis at the foot of Vesuvius, after it was defeated in the final of the German representatives VfB Stuttgart. After winning the title in the UEFA Cup and the era Ottavio Bianchi ended in Naples, he was replaced by Alberto Bigonville. Also under the new head coach, the team of Napoli was very successful and have already succeeded in Bigons first season as Napoli coach of victory in the Serie A. The 1989/90 season was in first place with two points ahead of AC Milan ended. A little later the SSC succeeded in Stadio San Paolo, a spectacular 5-1 win against Cup winners Juventus, making the team the first of September 1990, still won the Italian Super Cup.
The season 1989/90 was the culmination of the successful period of Napoli, then it went steadily downhill for the club. While 1990/91 only was eighth in Serie A, had the undisputed star of the team, Diego Maradona, on 17 March 1991 after a league game against Sampdoria, drug problems and the detection of cocaine use from Naples to flee to a punishment to. escape After Maradona's departure was announced that Napoli was in severe financial difficulties, which subsequently led to a sharp deterioration in the economic and sporting situation. Finally, the club was relegated in 1998 in the B series. After a few more years, followed in 2004 by the bankruptcy of Napoli and the re-establishment as well as the purchase by the film director Aurelio De Laurentiis, the Napoli back into the upper regions of the Serie A could lead.
Alberto Bigonville experienced all of this not as a coach of SSC Napoli. He left the Campanian after the unsuccessful season in 1990/91 to join the U.S. Lecce, also from the South of Italy to join. He was born in Naples, Claudio Ranieri replaced by later successful coach in Florence, Valencia and at Chelsea, but in Naples without notable success.
Work in Lecce, Udine and Ascoli Piceno
In the summer of 1991, Alberto Bigonville took over as coach at second division U.S. Lecce. This association, which had played in the previous years a few times first class, he was responsible for a year. The 1991/92 season in Serie B joined the team of Alberto Bigonville from only a disappointing tenth place in the table, which did not meet the demands of club management. The promotion to Serie A, however, managed to Brescia, Pescara Calcio, Ancona Calcio and Udinese Calcio.
It was at that club Alberto Bigonville changed in 1992 and thus became the successor to rise coach Franco Scoglio, who had gone to AS Lucchese Libertas. As a coach of Udinese Alberto Bigonville worked with some success and managed in Serie A 1992/93 in the league. It was the fourteenth -ranked, level on points with the first two relegated Brescia Calcio and ACF Fiorentina. Only the better two goals against Brescia on goal difference save Udinese. Despite the successful class preserving Alberto Bigonville Udinese left after the end of the game in 1992 /93. He was subsequently unemployed for two years. In the spring of 1995, he received an offer from Ascoli Calcio, which had been in the second-rate series B in relegation danger and trainer Angelo Orazi had dismissed. But even under Alberto Bigonville was no performance increase, this was replaced by Mario Colautti, the fourth coach of Ascoli Piceno in this season, but could not even avoid relegation to Serie C1.
Coach in Switzerland and return to Italy
In summer 1996 it was announced that Alberto Bigonville the new coach of the Swiss first division club FC Sion would be. In Sion, he worked as successfully as was once the case SSC Napoli and could with the relatively small club that had never won in his previous club history, the Swiss football championship win just this in the season 1996/97. In the National League A team of Alberto Bigonville took first place after the National League -A- finals for the championship by three points to Neuchatel Xamax, after following the end of the regular season, ie after the 22 match days of the National League A and was not ranked on three seven points behind Neuchâtel. Also very successfully played the team of FC Sion in the Swiss Cup 1996 / 97th So Alberto Bigons team won the final against FC Luzern 5-4 on penalties, after it had been after the end of regular time 3-3 draw. Already in the previous two years of the FC Sion of Switzerland won the cup competition, which meant that the club in the season 1996/97 also took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup. Here, the team reached the second round, where to 1:2 in the Stade de Tourbillon and 3:6 lost to the English representative Liverpool at Anfield and was eliminated.
With the many successes that won Alberto Bigonville as coach of FC Sion, it was interesting for clubs from his native Italy. So he got in September 1997, an offer of AC Perugia, an Umbrian tradition association, which was to be found in the 1997/98 season in the Serie B second-rate. The AC Perugia, he helped to promotion to Serie A, although he dismissed during the season after a series of poor results and replaced by Ilario Castagner, who completed the climb with Perugia after the playoffs were won victory against Torino Calcio.
Piraeus, immersion and inter-block Ljubljana
A anderthalbes year after his release in Perugia took Alberto Bigonville in November 1999, the coach of Olympiakos Piraeus in Greece. However, he worked for the Greek giants not last very long and was released on the tenth of April 2000 from his duties and replaced by Ioannis Matzourakis. The dismissal of Alberto Bigonville came as a surprise to many observers, as Olympiakos ranked amongst the Director on the first place in the Greek league with a point prior to Panathinaikos Athens. His successor took in the remaining eight league games all 24 possible points and led the team to the championship.
In the following seven years, Alberto Bigonville did not practice the profession of football coach. In February 2007 he returned to the sidelines and took over as coach at FC Sion in succession by Pierre -Albert Chapuisat. Bigonville helped the FC Sion to reach the third table Ranges in the Swiss Super League, which meant the promotion for the UEFA Cup. In the following season, Alberto Bigonville could no longer meet the expectations of club president Christian Constantin, who had Bigonville dismissed during his first engagement in Sion, despite winning the doubles, and was on the thirteenth of December 2007 from his duties as coach of the first team of FC Sion birth. Bigons successor was the Swiss Charly Roessli.
The up to now last employer by Alberto Bigonville as coach was the Slovenian first division inter-block Ljubljana, the Bigonville took them under contract in August 2008. But the work of the Italian in Ljubljana was only a few months, he joined in September of the same year due to differences with the board regarding the personnel policy back. He then retired to private life and took no further associations from coach.
Achievements
As a player
- Italian Champion: 1978/79
- Italian Cup Winners: 1971/72 1972 /73 1976/77
- European Cup Winners Cup Winners: 1972/73
As a coach
- Italian Champion: 1989/90
- Italian Super Cup winner: 1990
- Swiss champion: 1996/97
- Swiss Cup winner: 1996/97
- Slovenian Cup Winners: 2008/ 09