Antonio ValentÃn Angelillo
Antonio Valentín Angelillo ( born September 5, 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is a former Argentine- Italian football player and coach.
Angelillo played a long time in Serie A and for the Argentine as well as for the Italian national team. He was considered one of the rising stars of football, but could not fulfill the hopes.
Later he worked as a coach for various clubs.
Club career
The young Angelillo was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Italian immigrants. The street footballers joined with 14 of the Youth Department of Arsenal de Lavallol where the footballing talent of the striker was promoted.
In 1955 he made his debut for the Racing Club Avellaneda in Argentina's first league and already changed in the following season to the top club Boca Juniors. With 16 goals, he was the top scorer of his team league squad and received a nomination for the Copa América 1957.
Argentina was the outstanding team: with the storm Trio Omar Sívori, Humberto Maschio and Angelillo ( " three angels with dirty faces " ) were defeated all opponents. Angelillo scored eight goals in six games, Maschio even met nine times. Argentina was sovereign winner and the three were the stars of " Albicelestes " and were following the tournament from Italian clubs must: Sivori Juventus FC Bologna Maschio and Angelillo Internazionale of Milan, the paid nine million lire.
In Inter Angelillo played as a freelance player behind the strikers, as a kind of hanging lace or playmaker. In the first year (1957 /58), he played a good season and scored in the league 16 times. But in the next season was followed by a performance explosion, when he scored 33 goals - to date, no player in the Serie A this brand has been able to crack more (highest strike rate since Gunnar Nordahl 1950/51 with 34 goals ). His total of 38 Goals in official matches this season are still a club record at Inter.
Angelillo was the new superstar in the San Siro and absolute favorite of Interisiti. But titles were denied him with the Nerazzurri; In 1960, the championship was just missed and with Helenio Herrera has a new head coach committed. Herrera initially built on Angelillo as a fixed point on the offensive and even appointed him to the captain. But he did not withstand the pressure and pulled by his extravagant lifestyle the displeasure of disciplinarian Herrera on itself (relationship with the singer Ilya Lopez ). The coach took his star of the team and relieved him of his duties as a captain; he built his team around and led the Catenaccio one - in this system was no more room for Angelillo, the heavy heart of President Angelo Moratti at the AS Roma was sold.
With the Roma Angelillo wanted to take up his magnificent season 1958/59, but the power he could never retrieve it. During this time he was naturalized in Italy to play for their national team. However, after only two games (one goal ) was an end to his international career.
Later Angelillo even had two brief guest appearances at Inter's city rivals AC Milan, with whom he won the Scudetto in 1968.
His career was then in Serie B at the Genoa finish and ended in 1969 with 31 years of his career.
Career as a trainer and talent scout
After his professional career Angelillo remained in Italy, where he coached several club. He had his greatest success with the AC Arezzo, with whom he would have become almost in Serie A.
Later, he also worked as a talent scout for Inter in South America, where he discovered players like Javier Zanetti or Iván Córdoba.
Today Angelillo lives near Arezzo.