Osvaldo Bagnoli
Osvaldo Bagnoli ( born July 3, 1935 in Milan ) is an Italian former football player and coach. After he had become as a player with AC Milan Italian masters, he led the underdog Hellas Verona in 1985, he worked for nine years for the only previous championship. Later he trained nor the CFC Genoa and Inter Milan.
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Playing career
Osvaldo Bagnoli, born July 3, 1935 in the northern Italian city of Milan, began playing football at the club Ausonia 1931 in the amateur field. There he attracted the attention of AC Milan. In 1955 he was taken by the Rossoneri under contract and was now playing two years for Milan. During this time he won with Milan, where he played together with, among others, international football greats of that time like Nils Liedholm, Cesare Maldini or Juan Schiaffino, in the season 1956/57, the Italian championship. A first place with six points clear in Serie A was assigned to the defending ACF Fiorentina. Previously you could see the Coupe Latine, the predecessor of the European Cup of Champions.
After only eighteen missions in league play in the jersey of AC Milan Osvaldo Bagnoli left the club in 1957 and went to Hellas Verona, which had just risen straight from the B series in the Serie A. However, it was followed by a last place with just 26 points from 34 games, the direct relegated again. After Erstligaabstieg Bagnoli spent two years with Verona in the second division. In 1960 he went 97 league games for Hellas Verona continued to Udinese Calcio, where you could stop in the 1960/61 season relegation only in relegation matches against Calcio Lecco and AS Bari. After this one season, he moved to Italy's south to the U.S. Catanzaro from the series B. Here Bagnoli always reached positions in the middle of the second highest league. He remained until 1964 at Catanzaro and made 102 league appearances and 22 goals. For the season 1964/65 he was obliged by league rivals SPAL, with whom he once managed the direct re-emergence after only one year second division. As a freshman, was achieved in the following season to avoid relegation in fifteenth, just one point ahead of the first relegated Sampdoria. Also 1966/67, Ferrara was successful and was twelfth, but again only two points ahead of Lazio, the first losers. At the end of the season 1966/67, Osvaldo Bagnoli changed again the club and Udinese Calcio rejoined for one year. After 22 missions in the C series, in which the first-class five years ago Udine had fallen, he went in 1969 to SS Verbania Calcio. From 1969 to 1972, he came there to 135 third league games and reached with his club always midfield positions.
Coaching career
Beginnings and first Serie A Rise
After the end of his time as an active soccer player Osvaldo Begnoli became a coach. 1973 was his first stop as a responsible facilitator of the third division. Solbiatese Arno Calcio. It was achieved in the C series of the twelfth rank, but Begnolis employment ended after the season. For the season 1974/75 he took over the second division FC Como, which he led as a table runner behind the AC Perugia in Serie A. There were in Serie A 1975/76, however, only reached 21 points, making the round had to be taken up in the second tier as a table next to last. Despite that failure Como held on to his trainer to the club in the second division 1976/77 season in sixth missed the resurgence, which Begnolis time in Como was over. 1977/78 he trained briefly Rimini Calcio and was able to avoid relegation from Serie B only slightly, the season ended with a dot in front of U.S. Cremonese, which had in the Serie C1. Now for Begnoli he spent one year in the fourth division Alma Juventus Fano 1906, he led on a Nichtaufstiegsplatz in the Serie C1 for sovereign climb first with ten points ahead, the Office but the end of season resigned to join the Zweitdivisionär AC Cesena. Finishing fourth in the 1979/80 season they failed to make it to Serie A in the first season only slightly, while FC Como, the AC Pistoiese and AC Brescia ascended. A year later the rise, then managed to finished second, only behind AC Milan, who along with Lazio had relegated from Serie A in the previous year due to the scandal of bribery. Despite the success with Cesena Begnoli did not stay with the club. He signed in 1981 a contract with Hellas Verona.
Il Verona di Bagnoli
At the time of the inauguration of Osvaldo Bagnoli, the former prime Hellas Verona in Serie B had established. In previous years, mostly midfield ranks have been achieved, but succeeded in the 1980/81 season only just avoiding relegation. In his first season in Verona, he led the team to first place in Serie B 1981/82 and managed so that together with Sampdoria Genoa and Pisa SC promotion to the Serie A. There you caused a big surprise and is after all the game day in fourth place, eight points behind the new Italian champion Roma and qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1983/84. In the same season, Bagnoli reached with Hellas Verona the final of the Italian Cup soccer. The final first leg at the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi was won by Hellas goals by Domenico Penzo and Domenico Volpati 2-0 in the second leg at Juventus, the team from Osvaldo Bagnoli subject but with 0:3 after extra time and lost the final on goal difference, with Michel Platini Juventus until the 119th minute saved game before the penalty shoot-out.
The 1983/84 season was completed by Hellas Verona with the sixth place, thereby missed a renewed participation in international competition. All the while 1983/84 part in the UEFA Cup. Already in the second round came here against Sturm Graz of Austria, the off, after they had drawn the short straw after using the away goals rule. The first leg ended 2-2 in Verona and in Graz came Hellas only to a goalless draw, which Graz could have two away goals and Verona zero. In the previous round they had prevailed 4-2 after return game against the Yugoslav representatives of Red Star Belgrade.
1984/85 was the most successful year of Hellas Verona in the club's history. With Coach Bagnoli and players such as goalkeeper Claudio Garella, defender Hans -Peter Briegel, midfielder and striker Antonio Di Gennaro Preben Larsen Elkjær you won for the first time in the history of the company founded in 1903, the Italian association football championship. In Serie A, one was first with four points ahead of Torino Calcio. At the same time Hellas Verona presented with only nineteen goals against in thirty games, the best defense in the Italian Elite League. The unexpected success under coach Bagnoli brought Hellas Verona the name Il Verona di Bagnoli one. In football Italy Eighties there were such names frequently, as was also found di Napoli Maradona, Zico and Juventus Udinese di di Platini.
In the years after the championship successes in Hellas Verona decreased. In the 1985/86 season we only finished tenth, and also in the European Champions Cup in the same year came off in the second round against last year's winners Juventus Turin 0:0 and 0:2 after the first round of Greece champions PAOK Thessaloniki was defeated with 3:1 and 2:1. After 1985/86 the European Cup was not achieved, Bagnoli came with Hellas in Serie A 1986/87 back to fourth place, which made participation in the UEFA Cup 1987/88 with them. Here Bagnoli led his team to the quarter- finals, where they failed to Werder Bremen. Initially, it was Pogoń Szczecin, FC Utrecht and Sportul Studenţesc off. In league play, it was 1987/88 less, Verona was only tenth. In the following season was filled with eleventh place only a means of field rank. The 1989/90 season ended for Hellas Verona with relegation from Serie A. It was the Sixteenth place achieved with only 23 points from 34 Spieeln, which together with Udinese Calcio Ascoli Calcio and U.S. Cremonese the round had to be taken up in the second division. While the management of Hellas Verona would not let him in the course of the disastrous season, Osvaldo Bagnoli remained after the descent not in Verona and signed a contract with first division side Genoa for the 1990/91 season. In Hellas Verona Bagnoli was replaced by Eugenio Fascetti, formerly of the U.S. Lecce, Lazio and Torino Calcio active, the back led the club directly to the first division.
Last stations in Genoa and Inter
With the CFC Genoa Osvaldo Bagnoli took over in 1990 a club whose last championship lagged 66 years. As Tabellenelfter a midfielder rank was occupied, while Bagnoli was staying with Verona in the past season 1989/90. The Serie A 1990/91 ended Osvaldo Bagnoli with the CFC Genoa in fourth place in the table and made like once with Hellas Verona for a big surprise. This one was entitled to start for the UEFA Cup in 1991/92. Only in the round of the last four teams in this case came from the tip against the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam by stars such as Frank de Boer, Aron Winter and Dennis Bergkamp and coach Louis van Gaal. A little later, Ajax won the UEFA Cup in the final against Torino Calcio. The CFC Genoa, however, had previously caused a stir in the tournament, as one the world stars first then defeated in the quarterfinals by Liverpool 2-0 in Genoa and 2-1 at Anfield and 4-1 on aggregate from the tournament threw. Before the CFC already eliminated Real Oviedo, Dinamo Bucharest and Steaua Bucharest. After that came out in the semi-final and also in the league only to the fourteenth place was reached, Osvaldo Bagnoli fell out with the President of Genoa, Aldo Spinelli, and his contract was not renewed. He moved to Inter Milan.
In his first season as coach of Internazionale, he was with the team around players like Walter Zenga, Giuseppe Bergomi and Rubén Sosa Ardáiz Italian runners, only behind local rivals AC Milan. This one was qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1993/94. In this competition, Inter came to the finals and was also there victorious against SV Austria Salzburg. This success did not live to Osvaldo Bagnoli but as the person responsible on the sidelines at Inter with, he was dismissed in the final stages of the 1993/94 season because of persistent failure and the impending crash in the second division. His successor Giampiero Marini could save Inter before the descent and bring to a UEFA Cup victory. For Osvaldo Bagnoli coaching career was ended by his involvement with Internazionale, with 59 years, he took no other club more.
Achievements
As a player
- Italian Championship: 1 × (1956 /57)
- Coupe Latine: 1x (1956 )
As a coach
- Italian Championship: 1 × (1984 /85)
- Series B: 1 × (1981 /82)
- Seminatore d' oro: 1x (1984 )