Gianpiero Combi
Giampiero Combi
Giampiero Combi ( born November 20, 1902 in Turin, † August 12 1956 in Imperia ) was an Italian football player.
As a goalkeeper of Juventus he won five times in 1926 and in a row from 1931 to 1934 the championship in Serie A. In the National Team he completed from 1924 to 1934 and won 47 matches under coach Vittorio Pozzo 1934 World Cup. He was together with Ricardo Zamora, František Rudolf Hiden and Plánička to the great goalkeepers of this era.
- 2.1 In the club
- 2.2 In the National Team
- 3.1 Literature
- 3.2 External links
- 3.3 Notes and references
Career
Association
Born in Turin Giampiero Combi played his entire career as a goalkeeper for Juventus. His debut in the League team of Juventus he gave on February 5, 1922 while playing against Pro Vercelli. With Juve he was five times Italian champion during his career 1926-1934 and was part of the legendary team of Quinquennio d' Oro. With the takeover of the Presidency at Juventus in 1923 by Edoardo Agnelli, president of Fiat works, the economic foundation of the club has been improved tremendously and laid the foundations of the coming success. The first title of 1922 experienced getting on in the first team goalkeeper in the Series 1925/26, when he won the final two games in August 1926 with 7:1 or 5:0 against Alba Roma SS with Juventus. From the season 1929/30, the championship was played in Serie A, Ambrosiana Inter won the Scudetto and Juve finished third. In the series 1932/33, Combi had - which only 1.71 m wide keeper were sovereign positional play, agility, elegance and exceptional conducting front of people attributed - completed all 34 league games and only 23 goals allowed. Along with Umberto Caligari and Virginio Rosetta, he made a final triangle of international class. Under coach Carlo Carcano he took in the years 1931-1934 in the competition of the Mitropa Cup. His last game in Serie A also denied the Uomo di Gomma ( rubber man ) called Combi on April 15, 1934 in a 2-1 win against Brescia Calcio. After the round 1933/34 ended the " prestigiatore in porta " ( "Wizard in the gate" ) his career.
National Team, 1924-1934
His debut for the Italian national team gave Combi on April 6, 1924 at the international match against Hungary in Budapest. The game ended with a 1:7 defeat and for the Turin followed a nearly year-long creative break with five discharged internationals. On March 22, 1925 but stood by his second in the Azzurri a 7-0 success against France beech and he had rehabilitated it. But goalkeeper he was not. Goalkeeper Giovanni De Pra FC Genoa made Combi until the first match of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam on 29 May against France ( 4-3 ) competition. After his impressive performances at the Olympic tournament in the two games against Spain ( 7-1 playoff victory ), the 2:3 semi-final defeat against Uruguay and the high 11:3 success in the match for 3rd place on June 10 against Egypt with winning the bronze medal, but he was in goal for the Squadra Azzurra the undisputed placeholder. From June 1, 1928 ( against Spain ) until 13 December 1931 in Turin against Hungary ( 3-2 ) was the keeper of Juventus in 24 countries playing continuously in goal for the national team. This also included meetings on 28 April 1929 in Turin on March 2, 1930 in Frankfurt against the German national soccer team. Still had the Nuremberg goalkeeper colleague Heiner Stuhlfauth contributed to its superior performance in Turin for the surprising 2-1 success for the German team, Italy succeeded in Frankfurt with a convincing combination in the gate, by a 2-0 success revenge.
With his team-mates to put in the combi inaugural European Cup Football Teams from 1927 to 1930 against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Switzerland through. In the second host 1931/32 he won with Italy in second place, before 1933-1935 won for the second time the competition.
4-0 success in the World Cup qualifier on March 25, 1934 in Milan against Greece Carlo Ceresoli guarded the gate of the Squadra Azzurra. Combi harbored intentions for a massive career end and allowed himself to be persuaded by Vittorio Pozzo after a broken hand from Ceresoli to stand again available for the World Cup. When winning the football World Cup in 1934, he was then the captain of the world champion team. In addition to winning the title duels sticking with the goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora colleagues, Peter Platzer and František Plánička in the games against Spain, Austria and Czechoslovakia out. After the final on 10 June 1934 in Rome, he finished with 47 international matches his playing career.
His teammate Giuseppe Meazza ruled on Combination:
" I am above all an extraordinary ability Combis remembered: He had in goal on a perfect position game that you involuntarily got the impression that there is in the world no simpler than professional football goalkeeper. Combi was always in the right place, where it was the flight of the ball in the way. [ ... ] In all of the games I played with Combi together in the National Dress or against him at Inter- Dress, I experienced only very rarely that he tried to catch the ball in the throwing of a Robinson Crusoe. For effects he had nothing left as a goalkeeper he was the expediency itself »
Combi died very suddenly in 1956 of a heart attack.
Achievements
In the club
- Italian Championship: 1925 /26, 1931/32, 1932/33, 1933/34,
In the National Team
- World Cup 1934
- European Cup for national teams: 1933-1935