Giuliano Giuliani
Giuliano Giuliani ( born September 29, 1958 in Rome, Lazio, Italy, † November 14, 1996 in Bologna, Emilia -Romagna, Italy ) was an Italian football player at the position of goalkeeper. He played for the U.S. Arezzo, AC Como, Hellas Verona, Napoli and Udinese Calcio. With Napoli Giuliani was in the 1989/90 season Italian football champions and won the year before the UEFA Cup.
Career
Giuliano Giuliani began playing football in the jersey of U.S. Arezzo in Tuscany. For Arezzo the goalkeeper from 1976 to 1980 played mainly in the sub-prime Serie B football, after he had already visited the youth section of the club. Giuliani came in those four years to 52 league games for the U.S. and Arezzo had in this league matches conceded only 35 goals conceded, what drew him to the attention of larger football clubs in Italy. In 1980, he received an offer of Erstligaaufsteigers AC Como, which he accepted also. In Como Giuliano Giuliani immediately became a goalkeeper and helped the North Italians in the season 1980/81 to reach the class Erhaltes with space thirteen, level on points with the first relegated Brescia Calcio. The following season the AC Como but had to compete with Giuliani in the gate the transition to the second division after 1981/82 Last one was in Serie A. After the direct re-emergence was missed, this was achieved in Serie B 1983/84, so that the AC Como played first class again in the season 1984/85. With just 27 goals conceded - in this matter to Como could compete with the best teams in the league - but only seventeen own Torerfolgen, arose at the end of the season to avoid relegation with three points ahead of Ascoli Calcio.
While the AC Como kept the class has been Hellas Verona in 1985 for the first and to date only time in Italian football champions. Their coach Osvaldo Bagnoli needed a replacement for the migrated to Naples master keeper Claudio Garella and found this in Giuliano Giuliani. Then Giuliani stood from 1985 to 1988 at Hellas Verona under contract. He lived in the jersey of the club the slow downward trend of Verona Il di Bagnoli, nurmehr placements were achieved in the middle of the Serie A. Giuliani made 86 league appearances for Hellas Verona, but also suffered a proud 85 goals. However, he caught the attention of Napoli, where you had to replace Garella, who had gone to Udinese Calcio.
As a goalkeeper of Napoli Giuliano Giuliani spent his most successful time as a football player. With the great team of the SSC to Diego Maradona, Careca and Andrea Carnevale they picked in the 1988/89 season the UEFA Cup to Campania, which meant the greatest success to date for the club. In the final, while the German representative VfB Stuttgart 2-1 in the Stadio San Paolo and 3:3 in the Neckar Stadium was beaten to Stuttgart. Giuliano Giuliani was in both finals in the goal of SSC Napoli. He generally played as regular keeper during his time at Napoli and brought it to 64 games for the club. A year after the triumph in the UEFA Cup Giuliano Giuliani was successful as a keeper of SSC Napoli in the national championship. The team of coach Alberto Bigonville won the Serie A in 1989/90 by a first place, two points ahead of defending champions AC Milan. In general, the 1989/90 season made with the subsequent 5-1 in the Super Cup against Juventus the culmination of the most successful era of SSC Napoli at all, then it went downhill fast with the club.
Giuliano Giuliani, however, did not survive the demise of the SSC Napoli. He went in the summer of 1990 to Udinese Calcio, where he was in the gate successor to Claudio Garella, which he inherited for the third time at a club. For Udine Giuliani held three more years for two years in Serie B and career completion nor a season in Serie A, where he helped Udinese Calcio league. After the 1992/93 season Giuliano Giuliani ended his active career as a soccer goalkeeper at the age of 35 years.
Death
Only three years after the end of his career the immune deficiency disease AIDS was found in Giuliano Giuliani. In this disease, the former goalkeeper died on 14 November 1996 with only 38 years in Bologna. He left behind his wife, the Italian television presenter Raffaella Del Rosario.
Raffaella Del Rosario threw in 2003 against the former President of SSC Napoli, Corrado Ferlaino, doping and this brought in connection with the death of her husband. Ferlaino denied these allegations and stated that it never doping in the team of Napoli gave those years and could that he took no responsibility for the death of Giuliano Giuliani. Del Rosario also admitted later that the allegations against Ferlaino were invented. However, keeping to this day rumors about possible doping in the team of Napoli di Maradona.
Achievements
- UEFA Cup: 1x
- Italian Championship: 1x