Nevio Scala
Nevio Scala ( born November 22, 1947 in Lozzo Atestino, Italy ) is an Italian former football player and coach.
Life
As Nevio Scala Active had a rather unremarkable career as a midfielder, where he for AS Roma, AC Milan, Vicenza Calcio, Inter Milan, AC Monza Brianza U.S. Foggia and worked in the Serie A from 1966 to 1981. He was in 1968 with AC Milan champion and won in the same year in the final against Hamburger SV in the final European Cup winner. The following year he won with Milan also the European Champion Clubs' Cup, but was not in the final line-up against Ajax Amsterdam.
At the end of the 1980s, Scala began his career as a football coach. As a first success coach he could 1988/1989 recorded the rise of Reggina Calcio in Serie B. From 1989 to 1996 he was at the AC Parma. With the club, he won the 1992 Italian Cup against Juventus, and a year later the European Cup Winners' Cup in London with a 3-1 victory over the Royal Antwerp FC. In 1995 he won with his time- sponsored by the dairy group Parmalat Club also in the UEFA Cup and there he met again in the finals to Juventus.
In the 1996/97 season he coached Perugia Calcio, but was already committed for the following season by reigning Champions League winners Borussia Dortmund to succeed Ottmar Hitzfeld after Hitzfeld was changed from the dugout to the position of sporting director. With the club he won in Tokyo in November 1997, the World Cup against the champions of the Copa Libertadores, Cruzeiro EC from Belo Horizonte Brazil. In the Champions League, Dortmund eliminated from the subsequent winner against Real Madrid whose coach Jupp Heynckes. The match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium came here through the Torfall of Madrid in dubious reputation. National took the Borussia end of the season only a disappointing tenth place and the cooperation with Scala has been set.
Between 2000 and 2002 had Scala the Turkish top club Beşiktaş. In February 2002, he was committed to the dugout of the Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk. With Shakhtar, the four times won the national cup competition in the Soviet era, he took until May this year, the league and cup double of what the first two national title since Ukraine's independence meant for the club from the mining town. In September Shakhtar lost in the first round of the Champions League at FK Austria Wien 1:5, which led to the resignation Scalas.
In 2004, he coached Spartak Moscow, but also this engagement ended prematurely. These days he is commentator for Italian broadcasters Radiouno (RAI 1).
Achievements
As a player
- European Cup Winners ' Cup: 1968/69
- European Cup Winners Cup Winners: 1967/68
- Italian Champion: 1967/68
As a coach
- Italian Cup Winners: 1991/92
- European Cup Winners Cup Winners: 1992/93
- UEFA Cup Winners: 1994/95
- World Cup winner: 1997
- Ukrainian Champion: 2001 /02
- Ukrainian Cup winner: 2001 /02