Luigi Bertolini

Luigi Bertolini (* September 13 1904 in Busalla (GE), Italy, † February 11, 1977 ) was an Italian football player and coach.

Career

Luigi Bertolini began his career in the 1920s as an attacker at Savona 1907 FBC, full time, he worked at that time as a steelworker in Savona. During this time he was discovered by the U.S. Alessandria, a club which, although it had a very good team, but was not particularly wealthy. Therefore, they promised to undertake it can to get him a good job, but what you did not keep.

In Alessandria, where Bertolini played from 1927 to 1931, he was retrained under coach Carlo Carcano for the midfielder. On 1 December 1929 he made ​​his debut in the Italian national team against Portugal, played a total of 26 times for Italy Bertolini.

At the end of the season 1930/31 Luigi Bertolini has been committed by Juventus, where he was to play for six years. For Juve, he completed a total of 135 games, scoring five goals. He was part of the legendary team of Quinquennio d' Oro, who won five Italian championships in a row under coach Carlo Carcano 1931-1935, a record that has still not broken.

In the summer of 1934 he was also a regular player under Vittorio Pozzo with the national team world champions in their own country. In the same year Bertolini was for Italy even at the legendary Battle of Highbury as received in the story, 2:3 defeat against England in the square.

In 1937, Luigi Bertolini finished at the age of 33 years, his professional career and worked until 1940 as player-manager of the division club AC Rapallo. After the war he worked as a coach at Acireale Calcio. In the season 1951/52, Bertolini was ten game days coach at Juventus. The following year, he retired after a disappointing interlude in the dugout of Brescia Calcio out of the football business back.

Luigi Bertolini died in 1977 at the age of 72 years.

Achievements

In the club

  • Italian Championship: 1931 /32, 1932/33, 1933/34, 1934/35

In the National Team

  • World Cup 1934
  • European Cup for national teams 1933-1935
533877
de