Gabriele Ambrosetti
Gabriele Ambrosetti ( born August 7, 1973 in Varese, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer.
He was a member of the successful team of Vicenza Calcio in the mid- 1990s, the Coppa Italia won and moved to the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Due to strong performances during his first period at the club, he is next to Roberto Baggio and Paolo Rossi as one of the best players in the club's history.
Between 1996 and 1998 he was, however, in each case under the note best players in the Serie A, never made it to the national team of his country.
Club career
Ambrosetti began his career in the youth of his home club AS Varese. In 1990 he was promoted to the first team and made his debut in Serie C. In the season 1993/94 he managed with nine goals this season as a left midfielder his breakthrough and then moved up to Serie B Brescia Calcio to.
Brescia Calcio
When he became Erstligaabsteiger then to the surprise of the season and won in strong midfield of northern Italians a regular place. In conjunction with the then superstar Gheorghe Hagi left midfield was the starting point for much of the offensive play of blue and white, which was also reflected in the jointly scored 19 goals. Brescia managed its chances of promotion, whereupon Ambrosetti went to his first Serie A season. There, the club had to compensate for the disposal of Hagi, who returned to Spain moved to FC Barcelona after a successful FIFA World Cup 1994, which they tried to solve with an abundance of Neueinkäufen. Brescia presented itself then not erstligareif and stuck from the start in a relegation battle. Despite two goals in nine starts in the fall, coach Mircea Lucescu is decided in consequence to Ambrosetti to give in winter and increased reliance on established players in a relegation battle.
For the second round, he then went for half a year for AC Venezia back to Serie B, where he acted discreetly, only scored three goals in 18 stakes and moved back to the end of the season at his hometown club relegated straight back. Brescia was forced by a renewed descent into second-rate to reduce the budget drastically, after which up to Ioan Sabău all legionaries were issued and a restart with their own talents like Andrea Pirlo, Roberto Baronio, or was attempted. This meant that the club slipped in the fall of 1994/ 95 is also in Serie B in the basement table and the odds had gambled on the resurgence early. As a result of Ambrosetti was no longer tenable for the club and was sold to Serie A at Vicenza Calcio.
Vicenza Calcio
In Vicenza, he immediately became an important part in the then modern 4-4-2 system of coach Francesco Guidolin on the left offensive winger. Backed by a strong defense with players like Luigi Sartor, Joachim Björklund and Giovanni Lopez, he had many offensive freedoms, which he used as a template for the donor -budgetary storm Marcelo Otero and Roberto Murgita. The following season they managed with Ambrosetti as performers with winning the Coppa Italia against Napoli, the greatest success of the club history. 1997/98 they came after victories against Legia Warsaw and Roda Kerkrade to the semifinals of the Cup Winners' Cup where one with a total score of 2:3, but narrowly lost to the eventual winners Chelsea. Ambrosetti, emerged as the outstanding personality in the game of Vicenza, had a total of two goals and three assists large proportion reaching the semi-finals and was in two semi-finals against Chelsea the best player of his team. Simultaneous to success at the European level, one came in the league for the first time into the bottom third of the table, but might temporarily resolve the problem areas on the position of left-back and in central midfield by the lending of Roberto Baronio, Francesco Coco and Massimo Ambrosini. Especially Ambrosini proved to be a hit, made the breakthrough in professional football and proved to be a strong addition to Ambrosetti on the left side of midfield. After the departure of successful coach Guidolin to Udinese Calcio and the retrieval of Coco and Ambrosini AC Milan, the club could no longer maintain the high level and increased as Tabellensiebzehnter again. Ambrosetti had remained loyal to the club despite several offers, but was not ready to join the course in League Two.
Chelsea FC
As a result he became a player Gianluca Vialli request for a transfer fee of £ 3.5 million to England to his former club Chelsea. Vialli wanted to commit after his strong performances in European competition it already, but this was still failed in the previous year. Even before his arrival, he was then praised by Vialli to the skies and touted as the " Italian Ryan Giggs ", which led to high expectations of the players he could never fulfill. Ambrosetti had big problems of adaptation to the English style of play and acted as a shadow of its former self Added to this was the total failure of the fetched around £ 10 million shopping Star Chris Sutton, the Ambrosetti should provide you with templates. Vialli became the basis of generally poor performance under pressure and had to change, then Ambrosetti lost his place. As a result he had to fight with to injury problems and came to the end of the season only to 16 inserts season without scoring and was next to Sutton the big transfer flop of the season. After the dismissal of Vialli and Claudio Ranieri of the obligation he was transferred to 2000/ 01 in the reserve team and awarded in the winter transfer period back home to the then second division side FC Piacenza.
Leihphasen
As a result, he managed the club than in second behind FC Turin promotion to the Serie A. Although he came up with only 14 seasonally, due to a number of minor injuries, Piacenza then extended the loan agreement with the player. Piacenza became then due to the strong signings of Eusebio Di Francesco, Matuzalém and Dario Hübner to the surprise team of the season, the weak form Ambrosetti came in contrast, increasingly sidelined and lost his place. Piacenza put in a row of no value to an extension of the loan contract, after which the just relegated Vicenza took the chance to retrieve the previous star.
The return was disappointing. Vicenza had almost gambled away the chances of advancement during the first round and was despite a relatively strong squad with players such as then- talent Christian Maggio, Fabio Firmani or Stjepan Tomas in no man's land of the league. When taken as a savior Ambrosetti was leistungstechnisch only a shadow of former times, contended again with multiple injuries and offered at best average performance. At the end of the season you committed for financial reasons, to the pulling of the call option, after which he returned to Chelsea after two years loan period again.
At the beginning of the season 2002 /03 he should be delivered in the planned obligation of Dino Baggio in change at Lazio. The exchange ultimately failed, however, to a serious injury, the Baggio drew upon the start of the season, then was forced to sit out Ambrosetti his contract with Chelsea.
Career finale
For the season 2003/ 04 he moved it one more time to once again just relegated FC Piacenza back home. Despite an entire season without match practice he was able to win a regular place and played a good, even if far less important role in the game system of Romagna located right off the bat. After just one season he then left again Piacenza and went to the Serie C1 for traditional club Pro Patria Calcio, where he end his professional career until 2007.
After his resignation as a professional, he played for two years at amateur level for ASD Fulgor Cardano before he fully retired in 2009 from active football.
Others
In 2007 he won at the side of the former star player Giuseppe Signori Benito Carbone and with an Italian selection the discharged annually " FIFPro Tournament for contract Spieler " in Lisbon.