Felice Borel

Felice Placido Borel (II ) ( born April 5, 1914 in Nizza Monferrato, Italy, † January 21, 1993 in Turin, Italy ) was an Italian football player and coach.

Borel, Main position Striker was known as Farfallino. Since he was the younger brother of Aldo Giuseppe Borel, he was also called Borel (II).

Career

Felice Borel made ​​his debut at eighteen for Juventus, and immediately showed his great talent. In his first season in Serie A (1932 /33) he scored 29 goals in 28 games and thus scorer. The following season he was able to repeat this success by scoring 32 goals in 34 games. On October 22, 1933 he was appointed the national coach Vittorio Pozzo Azzurra in the Squadra. In his debut Borel II was allowed to wear the number 9 from Angelo Schiavio and scored the winning goal against Hungary.

Borel also included in the Football World Cup 1934 squad for Italy. However, it was only the extras role behind the big Schiavio and he came only to a use in the replay of the quarter-final against Spain, but the striker with the trained by Vittorio Pozzo Squadra could fiern Azzurra winning the world title, and thus the greatest success of his career.

After winning the world title and the new title with Juventus ( for the third time in a row), Borel seemed to mature into one of the best Italian center-forward the story, but subsequently began to decline his star. In the second half of the 1930s he was at the Bianconeri are less in use and achieved barely gates. For the season 1941/42, moved to city rivals AC Borel II Turin. In 1944, he returned to his hometown club Juventus and denied the War Championship. 1946/47, joined Borel to Alessandria, before he finished his career at Napoli in Serie B at the end of the season 1948/49. Both clubs Felice Borel had acted as player-coach.

In the season 1958/59 Felice Borel worked with Carmelo Di Bella as coach of Calcio Catania. Overall, he was able to achieve 138 goals in Serie A and is still one of the youngest scorers history of Italy's top division.

Achievements

In the club

  • Italian Championship: 1932/33, 1933/34, 1934/35
  • Coppa Italia: 1937/38,

In the National Team

  • World Cup 1934
  • European Cup for national teams 1933-1935
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