Santiago Vernazza
Santiago Vernazza in the jersey Platense
Júlio Carlos Santiago " Ghito " Vernazza ( born August 26, 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is a former Argentine football player who in his homeland with CA River Plate multiple champion and later in Italy at Palermo, AC Milan and at Lane Rossi Vicenza played.
Career
Club career
Santiago Vernazza played the first years of his active career as a football player at the club CA Platense, a club in Buenos Aires conurbation, which was to be found in the superior Primera División time. For Platense Vernazza made 1947-1951 109 games in league play and scored in 53 matches. Most jumped for Vernazza and Platense results in the midfield of the league, only in the 1949 season they finished third behind champions Racing Avellaneda and CA River Plate. It was at that club Santiago Vernazza joined the 1951 season, which for the attacker most successful period of his career with the result. In the shirt of River Plate he played together with other Argentine football greats of the era, such as Ángel Labruna Félix Loustau, Amadeo Carrizo and Norberto Yácono. Between 1952 and 1956, Santiago Vernazza won with River Plate four times the Championship of Argentina, with only two seasons were completed in these years, not first. In his first season with the Millonarios, as River Plate was named due to its expensive player purchases, Vernazza was also top scorer with 22 goals. Overall, Vernazza came during his time at River Plate on 72 Torerfolge in 154 league games.
In the winter of 1956/57, he moved to Europe in the Italian Serie A, which was regarded as the best football league in the world, and joined the newly promoted U.S. Palermo Sicily. This since the season starts fighting against relegation and could not prevent this, even after the signing of Santiago Vernazza. At the end of the Serie A 1956/57, Palermo had a non- relegation to Serie B, the second highest Italian league, stay with only 22 points and eight points behind. There came in the following years, not just the resurgence. In 1959, the team was able to qualify again for the Serie A, as in Serie B second place, was only behind Atalanta Bergamo, occupied. Santiago Vernazza was in the second division season 1958/59 with nineteen gates scorer in the league. After the climb, but showed neither Vernazza still the team of Palermo erstligataugliche services and you had to cope with the direct relegated again.
After the descent with Palermo left Santiago Vernazza Sicily and joined the AC Milan, where he played an active game time football. With the Rossoneri took Vernazza, who acted on the position of an attacker in one season, he was in Milan, ranked second in Serie A with four points behind Juventus. Santiago Vernazza completed 29 league games in the jersey of AC Milan, scoring fourteen goals, earning him the eighth place in the list of top scorers in Serie A 1960/61 earned. Despite its common place in the team of coach Nereo Rocco Vernazza left Milan in the summer of 1961 after only one year and went to Vicenza to the local first division Lane Rossi Vicenza. Today's second division experienced in the 60s and 70s, and by the financial support from the Wool Products Group Lane Rossi is the most successful period of the club's history with almost constant Erstligazugehörigkeit. Santiago Vernazza played from 1961 to 1963 at the Stadio Romeo Menti to Vicenza football and came at this time to thirty league games with three goals, for a striker a less favorable rate. After he had reached as a result of Lane Rossi Vicenza two years placements in the middle of the Serie A, Vernazza ended after the season 1962/63 at the age of 35 years, his career as a football player.
After the end of his career Santiago Vernazza returned to his home country of Argentina and lives today in Buenos Aires. When he returned to Palermo in April 2009, Vernazza received prior to the Serie A game of Palermo against FC Turin an official jersey of U.S. Palermo with his name in recognition of his achievements as a player of Palermo.
National
Between 1950 and 1955, Santiago Vernazza was used in six international matches of the Argentine national soccer team. He scored a goal. The participation in a FIFA World Cup had been denied him how many Argentine football rounders of his generation, as first the Second World War 1938-1950 did not allow World Championships and Argentina in 1958 qualified again for a World Cup in a row. At this Santiago Vernazza would have if his achievements certainly can participate, but his involvement in Italy made further internationals impossible, since legionaries were not welcome in the national team at the time.
Achievements
- Argentine champion: 4x
- Scorer in the Primera División: 1x
- Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren: 1x