Luciano Castellini
Luciano Castellini ( born December 12, 1945 in Milan, Italy ) is an Italian former football player and later coach.
As Active Castellini won with the Torino league and cup and also took part in the World Cup 1974 in Germany. He later became goalkeeping coach and also coached twice on an interim basis the Erstligamannschaft of Inter Milan.
Giancarlo De Sisti side and Ciro Ferrara, he is one of only three players who were able to contest in Serie A with two different clubs more than 200 games in each league.
Playing career
Club career
Luciano Castellini, born in 1945 in the northern Italian city of Milan, began playing football in the Lombardy province of Monza Brianza at AC. There he first attended from 1960 to 1965 the youth department, before he was taken in the latter year in the first team. As a result, the keeper stood until 1970 in Monza Brianza box, where he graduated in sixty League games this time under the second and third Italian football league. Castellini did this with his performances quite convincing and attracted the interest of Italy's top clubs up. So he got in the summer of 1970 an offer from the first division Torino, which he accepted also.
From 1970 onwards, was Luciano Castellini to 1978 in 201 league games for Torino in goal. In his first season as a Goalkeeper of the Turin succeeded Castellini as starting player winning the Coppa Italia, the Italian Football Cup. It was defeated 5-3 in the decisive final round match of AC Milan on penalties after it had been the end of normal playing time and even after the end of the extension goalless. In league play was expressed in those years quite successfully. After a few positions in the upper third of the table and after a few times the champion title was only narrowly missed, the Torino in the 1975/76 season achieved his great success. For the first time since the plane crash of Superga in 1949 and the consequent end of the Grande Torino, the club took the Italian football championship. With coach Luigi Radice and players such as Paolino Pulici, Francesco Graziani or Renato Zaccarelli the Torino was the first in Serie A with two points ahead of local rivals Juventus. Started the following season as the defending champion, you've almost repeated the success that it was missing at the end of a point for a new championship, this time however, Juventus won. The 1976/77 season was also the last of Luciano Castellini than regular keeper of the now renamed Torino Calcio association. In the coming season, then he came nurmehr to fourteen missions. After he had lost his place, Castellini left Torino Calcio and then moved in the summer of 1978 for SSC Napoli.
In Napoli Luciano Castellini stood until 1985 in 202 league games of the Serie A goal. In league play were always achieved with a few exceptions placements in the upper middle or even near the standings. Title profits remained from both the league and in the Cup. The sporting marriage of SSC Napoli in the years Diego Maradona in the late eighties did not live Castellini in the jersey of the club. He finished in 1985 at the age of forty years of his long career in which he had made more than 450 league games in the highest three Italian leagues.
National
Due to its good performance in goal by Torino Calcio and later of Napoli came Luciano Castellini also to the attention of the Italian national team coach. However, he never made the leap to number 1 since he first Enrico Albertosi, then Dino Zoff and finally Walter Zenga, really could not prevail against the three great Italian goalkeeper that time. So it brought Castellini only a single application in the national team, he spent 2-1 win in a friendly match against Belgium at Rome on 26 January 1977.
Without that Castellini had previously denied an international match, coach Ferruccio Valcareggi he was nominated for the FIFA World Cup 1974 in Germany, where he but only as third-choice goalkeeper behind Zoff and traveled all Albertosi and was not used. However, the Italian team failed in the preliminary round as third in Group 4 behind Poland and Argentina, as well as before the World Cup newcomer Haiti.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career as a soccer player Luciano Castellini worked for many years as a goalkeeper coach for the showpiece club Inter Milan. After the Englishman Roy Hodgson was sacked in May 1997 shortly after losing the UEFA Cup final against FC Schalke 04, Internazionale appointed the former goalkeeping coach Luciano Castellini to his interim successor. In the last two games of the season each one win and a draw were reached, the season ended with Inter Castellini as a coach in third place. For the new season Castellini was not retained as a coach, Inter committed Luigi Simoni for this position. His successor Mircea Lucescu was released in 1999, again took over as interim coach Luciano Castellini. After four league games on the bench of inter Castellini was again replaced by Hodgson and worked from then on as goalkeeper coach.
Achievements
- Italian Championship: 1 ×
- Italian Soccer Cup: 1 ×