Giuseppe Volpecina
Giuseppe Volpecina ( born May 1, 1961 in Caserta ) is a former Italian footballer. He was, among other things part of the team of Napoli, in 1987 brought the first national championship for the southern Italian club. Later, among other things, yet for Hellas Verona and Fiorentina active, he reached with the Fiorentina final of the UEFA Cup in 1989/90, but they lost Juventus.
Career
Giuseppe Volpecina, born 1961 in Caserta, a town in the Campania region near Naples, began playing football at the local club U.S. Casertana, where he went through the youth departments. At the age of 16, he was discovered by talent scouts of Napoli, the result was a change in the youth sector of the SSC. There he acted for two years before Volpecina under coach Luis Vinício made the jump into the first team. However, in a team led by players such as Giuseppe Bruscolotti, Moreno Ferrario or Mauro Bellugi the young defender could not prevail and has been used only three times during the Serie A 1979/80, a scoring did not succeed.
For lack of operating times changed Giuseppe Volpecina after the end of the 1979/80 season the club. He went for the next four years on loan to Palermo, then settled in the second-rate series B. In Palermo became Volpecina the absolute key players in the four years of its activity in Sicily he made 133 league appearances for the club, scoring six goals. Since the U.S. Palermo decreed in those years, however, neither particularly good financial or human resources, you bobbing around in the lowlands of the Series B and had to accept even the descent into the third division after the end of the season 1983/84 with evidence of 17 Table Ranges. After the descent also left Giuseppe Volpecina U.S. Palermo, since the loan ended. When Napoli back, he was awarded again, this time to the SC Pisa and this time for two years. The SC Pisa was just relegated from Serie A and was considered a candidate for the climb. Under coach Luigi Simoni, years later, European champions coach of Inter Milan, the mission back in the Bundesliga sovereign with a first place and by far the best offensive in the league. Simoni went after the rise to Lazio Rome, and was succeeded by Vincenzo Guerini. Under the new coach it did not go so well for the SC Pisa and followed it up with the third to last place in the standings in Serie A 1985/86 the direct re- descent. Nevertheless, the two years in Pisa for Giuseppe Volpecina ran quite successfully, he was a regular and recommended in this function for a longer job at Napoli.
At Napoli Volpecina returned in the summer of 1986 and found a completely changed starting position as its first real station there in 1979 /80. Meanwhile, put the SSC a quite very competitive team, which also included international players such as Argentina's Diego Maradona or the two Italians Andrea Carnevale and Giordano Bruno. From Ottavio Bianchi trained, lived through the Napoli team since Maradona's arrival in the summer of 1984, a very positive development and has become a solid force in the uppermost regions of the Italian Elite League. In the year prior Giuseppe Volpecinas return had been ranked third behind Juventus and AS Roma at the end. In the 1986/87 season, things went even better for Bianchi's team. Beginning of the season we played for the championship lead with, this has held from the ninth game day and finally secured with a 1-1 draw against Fiorentina in the penultimate round ahead of the championship, the first in the club's history. Giuseppe Volpecina it was quite involved in large dimensions, he came to 25 missions in which he hit two (one in a 3-1 away win at Juventus 's 2-2 draw against Atalanta Bergamo and a ) get. A month after winning the title in the championship decided, Napoli also the final of the Coppa Italia 1986/87 against Atalanta Bergamo 3-0 and 1-0 to be the double of league and cup was now perfect.
Giuseppe Volpecina joined the club despite the success. He went to Hellas Verona, which was two years ago have had, Osvaldo Bagnoli sensational Italian masters. Also in 1987 pointed Hellas Verona with actors such as the Danes Preben Larsen Elkjær, the German Thomas Berthold or the Italian Antonio Di Gennaro a strong team, which however was not able to build on the earlier successes. In the two years that defended Volpecina in Verona, once they finished the tenth and eleventh place once. In this period also the breakup of the large team of Hellas Verona fell. The association of the Lombard province, financially not overpowering, had managed from 1981 to 1985 the rise of the second division to the Italian champion and two-time Cup finalists. Those successful period ended but just as quickly as it had begun. Already in 1990, finally found you again in the second division again. However, at this time, Giuseppe Volpecina was no longer in Verona. He had gone in the summer of 1989 Fiorentina.
With Fiorentina Volpecina spent two seasons, the national bad, and internationally well ran. In league play, the team of coach Francesco Graziani missed in the 1989/90 season relegation by just one point, while in the same season in the UEFA Cup after wins against Atlético Madrid of Spain, FC Sochaux in France, Dynamo Kiev from the Soviet Union, AJ Auxerre also reached the final of France and Werder Bremen from Germany where they met with league rival Juventus. The first leg was lost with 1:3 at the Stadio Comunale in Turin. For the technically negative result prerequisite for the return leg also came that the Florentine Stadio Artemio Franchi under reconstruction for the World Cup was in 1990 and Fiorentina could not deliver there his true home game. Instead, they played at the Stadio Partenio from Avellino, that got on that May 16, 1990 to see his last game more important. But the goalless draw in front of 30,000 spectators in Avellino was not enough Fiorentina to defeat Juventus.
In summer 1991 Giuseppe Volpecina moved one last time to the club and went back to where his footballing career had once begun, the U.S. Casertana. The Province club, who meanwhile had managed to climb up to Serie B, increased with Volpecina from a defensive player from this very. After the end of the Serie B 1991/92 Giuseppe Volpecina ended his career at the age of 31 years. Then worked as a coach and sports director for various amateur clubs in the Campania region.
Achievements
- Italian Championship: 1x
- Coppa Italia: 1x
- Mitropa Cup: 1x
- Series B: 1x
- Campionato Primavera: 1x