Mario Corso

Mario Corso on a Stamp of the Emirate of Ajman (1968 )

Mario Corso ( born August 25, 1941 in San Michele Extra, Verona ) is a retired Italian footballer and coach, who was active during his playing career for Inter Milan and Genoa. In addition, he completed 23 appearances for the Italian national football team.

Playing career

Association

Mario Corso began his professional career in 1958 at Inter Milan, on whose side he on July 12, 1958 at the Italian Cup competition, the Coppa Italia, made ​​his debut in the match against Como Calcio. In the 1959/60 season, he established himself permanently in the team, as he completed 31 games in Serie A and scored seven goals. Three years later, was able to realize his first title of the midfielder by winning the Italian championship. In the following year the European Champions Cup was won, while the Spanish representative in the final Real Madrid was defeated. In the season 1964/65 managed to defend the title in the European Champions Cup, also the Scudetto and the World Cup have been won.

A year later, Corso succeeded for the third time in his career, winning the national championship. Also, managed to successfully defend the title of the World Cup, while the team in the European Champions Cup failed in the semifinals at the eventual winners Real Madrid. The highly successful time with Inter ended in a more finals in 1967, when the Milan in the final game of the Scottish club Celtic Glasgow documents. Corso also scored in the following years to the root cadres of the association, however, was able to celebrate in the last seven years with Inter only winning the Italian league title in 1971.

His last duty Game of the high-scoring midfielder on 17 June 1973, when it ran aground in the match against Juventus.

In the summer of 1973 he left after 15 years, his hometown club, with whom he had played in 502 games and scored 94 goals obligation, and signed at Genoa. There he was active with moderate success for the Genoese, in the 1973/74 season the team was relegated to Serie B from and missed the following year as a sixth -placed the resurgence. Then Corso ended his active career as a professional player.

National

Corso was first appointed in 1961 to the squad of the Italian national team, for whom he made ​​his debut in the match against England on 24 May 1961. In his third appearance for the selection on 15 October 1961, he scored in the away match in Israel on the side of Bruno Mora, José Altafini and Omar Sívori his first two goals for Italy and helped the Azzurri thus to victory in the World Cup qualifier. Although he could have a lot of success with Inter Milan, he was never called up for a major international tournament. His last international match was completed by the midfielder on October 9, 1971 against Sweden.

Coaching career

Corso struck directly by end of his career as an active player on a career as a club coach and took over as the first station from 1978 to 1979 the youth team of Napoli. In 1982 he was first engaged as coach of a professional club and took over for a year the then second division side U.S. Lecce and in the following year the league rivals U.S. Catanzaro. With both clubs was succeeded by his expulsion, with Lecce could he have just reached the league and with Catanzaro followed the crash in the third- highest division, Serie C1. In 1984, Corso returned to his long -time regular club Inter Milan, where he first led the youth team on the sidelines and was eventually promoted to head coach during the 1985/86 season. In the championship end of the season was the sixth rank to beech, while the team in the Coppa Italia had failed in the quarter-finals and was eliminated in the semi-finals against Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup. As a result, Corso was relieved and discharged his duties as successor took over Giovanni Trapattoni as coach.

Later, he took over as coach of AC Mantova and SS Barletta Calcio. He took back the then fourth division Mantova in the third- highest division, and secured the team in the league. Barletta he led in his only season for League receipt in Serie B, in the following season was Salvatore Esposito as the new coach committed.

Between 1995 and 1998 he worked in the youth department of Inter Milan. He has since worked as a scout for the Milan.

Achievements

• Italian Championship: 1962 /63 1964/65, 1965/66, 1970/71
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1963/64, 1964/65
• World Cup: 1964, 1965