Luciano Chiarugi

Luciano Chiarugi ( born January 13, 1947 in Ponsacco ) is a retired Italian footballer and later coach. As active above all in the jersey of Fiorentina, AC Milan and Napoli successful, he later worked as a coach for example, twice on an interim basis at Fiorentina.

Playing career

Club career

Luciano Chiarugi, born in 1947 in the small town of Ponsacco in Lazio, began playing football in the youth department of the Fiorentina, where he was appointed in 1965 by coach Giuseppe Chiappella first time in the first team of the Tuscans. As a result, Chiarugi acted for seven years in the jersey of Fiorentina and managed soon to establish itself as absolute master players. So the young striker was there in his first year as a professional, as his club 1965/66 the final with a 2-1 won the Coppa Italia after extra time against the U.S. Catanzaro, but a scoring failed Chiarugi. 1968, the Argentine Bruno Pesaola was new instructor at Fiorentina and with it came the really big success. For only the second and, to date the last time the team secured matches, Giancarlo De Sisti such as, Amarildo or Ugo Ferrante, the Italian football championship. In Serie A in 1968/69 they had occupied the first place with four points ahead of the second placed U.S. Cagliari. In the following years it went downhill with the strong performance of the Fiorentina, just two years after winning the title of descent could only be bad just prevented. Luciano Chiarugi remained until the summer of 1972 at Fiorentina and played for the club a total of 140 league games in which he scored 33 results.

In 1972 he moved to AC Milan for four years, where he very successfully acted under coach Nereo Rocco in the Coppa Italia before everything. So jumped in the season 1972/73 on penalties to Juventus winning the Cup out, while two years later in the final despite a goal from Chiarugi failed against his former club from Florence. Twice a series reached Milan in those years also the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. 1972/73 defeated the margins of the English representatives of Leeds United with a goal by Luciano Chiarugi in the fifth minute 1-0, a year later, as the defending champion but had to admit defeat to the East German club 1.FC Magdeburg, Chiarugi was from the new coach Giovanni Trapattoni not even used.

After the end of the 1975/76 season Luciano Chiarugi changed after 104 league games with 37 goals for AC Milan again the club and the Napoli joined in the South of Italy, where he spent two years was in the episode under contract and Campanian with the club in the season 1977/78 once again penetrated into the finals of the Coppa Italia, now his fourth playoff participation with 1:2 drew the short straw in this competition, but against Inter Milan. After the end of this season it moved Chiarugi continue to Sampdoria, where he indeed made ​​every thirty season games for the now abgeglittenen to Serie B club, but the rise clearly missed. After that he went to FC Bologna, with whom he 1979/80 ended the Serie A on the thirteenth place in the standings and relegation avoided only because of the goal difference against Lane Rossi Vicenza and Atalanta Bergamo.

After geschafften relegation Luciano Chiarugi returned to FC Bologna again the back and moved to the second division to Rimini Calcio. There was, as well as the two clubs unterklassigen VG Rondinella Marzocco and U.S. Massese Chiarugi then finish his career before he in 1985 at the age of 38 years finally stopped playing competitive sports.

National

Between 1969 and 1974 it brought Luciano Chiarugi least three matches in the shirt of the Italian national football team. In this case, no scoring, where he also was most likely as a substitute for other attackers in the squad he succeeded. He also missed the big tournaments at that time and can not participate in a world still at a European post.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career Luciano Chiarugi was coach. In this role, he was the first time in 1993, when he replaced the sacked Aldo Agroppi in Florence, but his old club could no longer protect them from the bitter passage into the second division. After the descent Chiarugi was replaced by Claudio Ranieri, who led back into the Serie A Fiorentina sovereign. 2002 repeated this scenario, as the unsuccessful Roberto Mancini inherited Chiarugi, but was soon back even dismissed and replaced by Ottavio Bianchi, who could not avoid the transition into the second division for Fiorentina but.

Later Luciano Chiarugi then had a coach station, with whom he finished in the 2007/ 08 season at the then fourth division U.S. Poggibonsi, the season in sixth place.

Achievements

  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1x
  • Final of the European Cup Winners: 1x
  • Italian Championship: 1x
  • Italian Cup victory: 2x
  • Final of the Coppa Italia: 2x
  • Mitropa Cup: 1x
  • English- Italian League Cup: 1x
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