Giampiero Boniperti
Giampiero Boniperti 1951
Giampiero Boniperti ( born July 4, 1928 in Barengo, Novara Province ) is a retired Italian footballer. To date, he is one of the most successful striker in the history of Juventus, where he is active in the club's management to date.
Career
Boniperti one of the really big players in Italian football. Especially in his parent club Juventus he is still one of the most charismatic and best players of all time and he is known and revered to this day. The age of eighteen he moved, influenced by Giovanni Agnelli, to the people of Turin and played on March 2, 1947 his first game in Turin. In his youth, he also maintained a friendship with Fausto Coppi.
In the 1947/48 season Boniperti was as a 19- year-old with 27 -goal top scorer in Serie A - to date, no top scorer in the Italian league was younger. Until his retirement in late 1961, he played 444 games in Dress by Juventus, scoring 178 goals - both club records have since been broken and are now held by Alessandro Del Piero.
He was regarded as a player who played with determination and strength in the tackle on its position as a center forward. Along with Omar Sívori and John Charles, he made a highly successful attack trio that is still regarded as complete ester storm of Juventus.
After the 1960/61 season declared Boniperti, at the age of 33 years, his retirement from active football and soon moved into the management of the club of his heart - as he described in his autobiography called Juventus later. As of July 13, 1971, he was president of Juventus. Most followers of Turin 's most successful know Boniperti mainly because this presidency. Under his leadership, get the first great victories in the European title contests and the 20 league titles, characterized the club won the second champion star. In his presidency was, inter alia, the obligation of Giovanni Trapattoni as coach and some other Turin football legends like Bettega, Scirea, Capello, Platini, Zoff, Rossi, Tardelli and Boniek.
On 5 February 1990 Boniperti also explained his position in the management of his resignation. Until then, he spearheaded 14 league titles with Juventus: five as an active player, and another nine during his presidency. Since his retirement he is Honorary President in Turin - but the last remaining after both Giovanni and Umberto Agnelli died. In March 2004, he was selected by Pelé as one of the 125 greatest football players.
Achievements
- Italian Championship: 1949/50, 1951/52, 1957/58, 1959/60, 1960/61,
- Coppa Italia: 1958/59, 1959/60
- Scorer of the Serie A 1947/48
- Admission to FIFA 100