Roberto Tricella
Roberto Tricella ( born March 18, 1959 in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer.
As captain, he was critical to the surprising title of Hellas Verona in the 1984/85 season involved. He also played for Inter Milan, Juventus and FC Bologna. With the national team of his native country Tricella also participated in the Football World Cup 1986.
Career
Club career
Roberto Tricella began playing football in the youth department of Inter Milan. After he had gone through this, Tricella was appointed to the senior squad by Internazionale in 1977. However, it did not completely penetrate here and came to 1979 only five appearances in the Italian Serie A. Despite the fact that Roberto Tricella hardly used at Inter Milan, he has won in his first season as a player his first title, the Coppa Italia in 1978 was won in the final against Napoli. However Tricella experienced the Cup victory as a reservist.
In 1979 Roberto Tricella Inter Milan left and moved to the second-rate series B Hellas Verona. With the club he first played for two years in the middle realm of series B. With the arrival of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli in the summer of 1981, this situation changed, however, and Hellas Verona succeeded in the following season the sovereign promotion to Serie A. There could establish team immediately and reached as a freshman in the 1982/83 season a sensational fourth place. This positive development was stopped and Hellas Verona was 1983/84 sixth. Meanwhile, the team has been strengthened with players such as the German Hans -Peter Briegel, the Danes Preben Larsen Elkjær or the Italian Giuseppe Galderisi and managed in the 1984/85 season the big sensation. With Roberto Tricella as captain of the team of coach Bagnoli won the Italian championship, which until now only championship title for the now second-rate acting club. Hellas Verona finished second in the 1984/85 season in first place with four points ahead of Torino Calcio. With just nineteen goals against in thirty league games presented Hellas Verona the best defense in Serie A, as commemorated by Roberto Tricella in his position had a major share as a sweeper. But the championship title from 1985 was not only the culmination of the most successful era of Hellas Verona, but also the turning point. In the years after the championship it went downhill again for the club, only five years after the Scudetto - winning one rose again in the B series. At this time, Roberto Tricella not already played at the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi. He left Hellas Verona in 1987 and joined Juventus Turin.
With Juve Roberto Tricella also acted successfully. With the team around players like Luigi De Agostini, Rui Barros and Salvatore Schillaci, Roberto Tricella was initially successful in Italian football trophy, one was had ended with a 1-0 win at AC Milan Cup Winners' Cup in 1990 after the first leg in Turin scoreless draw. A year later, added Roberto Tricella, the successor of Gaetano Scirea as Libero took at Juventus, added also a European success to his collection of titles. In the final of the UEFA Cup in 1989/90 it was 3-1 and 0-0 victory against Fiorentina. In the two finals Tricella was not already used, he had lost his place. In the summer of 1990 he signed a new contract with FC Bologna. In Bologna he let his footballing career in the years 1990 to 1992 and finish made at this time 23 league games for the Emilian club. 1992 ended Tricella his active career as a football player at the age of 33 years. Then he turned away from the football business and now works as a Real Estate Broker.
National
Between 1984 and 1987 it brought Roberto Tricella to a total of eleven caps for the Italian national football team. In these eleven games, he managed not to score. His debut in the national jersey was Tricella on the eighth December 1984 in Pescara against Poland in a 2-0 win by the Italian team when he came on in the 46 minutes. Two years later he was appointed to the squad for the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 by Italy coach Enzo Bearzot. However, in the course of the tournament, he could not pass Gaetano Scirea and made not a single tournament game. His team, however, who came to Mexico as reigning soccer world champions, failed in the second round at the French team led by Michel Platini 0-2. Initially, it was ranked second behind the eventual champions Argentina and before the national teams of Bulgaria and South Korea in the group stage.
Achievements
- Italian Championship: 1x
- Italian Cup Winners' Cup: 2x
- UEFA Cup: 1x