Luís Vinício

Luís Vinícius de Menezes ( born February 28, 1932 in Belo Horizonte ) is a former Brazilian football player and later coach who spent almost all of his career as a player and coach in Italy.

Playing career

Luís Vinício, born in 1932 in Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, started with football matches Botafogo FR in Rio de Janeiro. He aroused the interest of AC Napoli, who signed him in 1955. In the shirt of Napoli he played in the next five years until 1960. With the AC Naples, that was the current SSC Napoli up to a renaming in 1964, he mostly gained placements in the middle of the Serie A highlight is only the fourth place in the season in 1957/58. That season was also the best of Luís Vinício in the dress of the Neapolitans, he scored 21 goals this season and finished fourth in the list of top scorers in Italy's elite league. In virtually all other seasons with AC Naples came Vinício to many season hits, but winning the top scorer was initially denied.

1960 was obliged Luís Vinício from FC Bologna. In two years for Bologna he made 47 league appearances and scored 17 goals in it. With FC Bologna won Luís Vinício 1961 his first major title as a football player who Mitropa Cup was won. Besides winning the Mitropa Cup, the importance, however, was very limited at that time, there were at least three other, more prestigious European Cups, passed his time in Bologna with little success, it was no other titles are won and also as a scorer could not Luís Vinício so draw attention to themselves. In 1962, he then went to Lane Rossi Vicenza, where he found again to its former strength and the club several times helped with a lot of goals for relegation. After a few years in which he missed the title of the best scorers in short supply, this was achieved in the 1965/66 season, as Vinício scored 25 goals for Lane Rossi and thus stood at the top of the scoring list four goals before Angelo Sormani from AC Milan. For his team, however, the season ended in sixth place, which meant quite a success for smaller club.

At the end of the season 1965/66 Luís Vinício moved to Inter Milan, which was then under coach Helenio Herrera and with the dreaded tactics Catenaccio to the best club teams in the world. In the Grande Inter, where stars of the era such as Giacinto Facchetti, Sandro Mazzola and Luis Suárez played, but Luís Vinício could not prevail, and returned after a season and only eight games to Lane Rossi Vicenza. Here he played football for a year, made 25 league games and seven goals, before he ended his active career at the age of 36 years.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his playing days Luís Vinício began his first engagement as a football coach. He coached one year Interna Camaldoli SSD, an amateur club from Naples. He subsequently worked for Brindisi football and Ternana Calcio Vinício in 1973 coach of his old clubs Napoli. In addition to good finishes in Serie A with Napoli he won in the 1975/76 season, the Coppa Italia, the Italian Football Cup. But after the end of the season 1975/76 his work in Naples was completed. He was appointed coach of Lazio, which he oversaw from 1976 to 1978 and led the club in the upper midfield again from the lower regions of the Serie A. The season 1977/78 ended with the dismissal of Vinício when Lazio came under severe danger of relegation. He then went back to Napoli, where he was released after a successful 1978/79 season during the following season due to lack of success. From 1980 to 1982 he was responsible for the sporting success of U.S. Avellino, located in the immediate vicinity of Naples. In two years he managed the league without problems, but in 1982 left the club in order to Pisa SC to join. Started as a newly promoted to Serie A 1982/83, Vinício held with the Pisa class, but had the following season, which brought the descent with him, take his hat. After two years as coach of Udinese Calcio, which always ended up with results in the lower middle of the first Italian League, he coached for the second time Avellino and increased 1987/88 from Serie A, after which he was released. After a three year break, he was from 1991 to 1992 Coach of SS Juve Stabia in Italy's third league, what was his last coaching position.