Vittorio Pozzo
Italian football player and manager (1886-1968)
Vittorio Pozzo (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈpottso]; 2 March 1886 – 21 December 1968) was an Italian footballer, manager and journalist.
![]() Pozzo as Torino manager in 1920 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 March 1886 | ||
Place of birth | Turin, Kingdom of Italy | ||
Date of death | 21 December 1968 | (aged 82)||
Place of death | Turin, Italy | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder[1] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1905–1906 | Grasshoppers | ||
1906–1911 | Torino | ||
Teams managed | |||
1912 | Italy | ||
1912–1922 | Torino | ||
1921 | Italy | ||
1924 | Italy | ||
1924–1926 | Milan | ||
1929–1948 | Italy | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Honours
changeManager
change- Italy
- FIFA World Cup: 1934, 1938
- Central European International Cup: 1927–30, 1933–35
- Men's Olympic football: 1936
Individual
change- Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011[2]
- World Soccer Magazine 13th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013[3][4]
Orders
change- Stella al Merito Sportivo[5]
References
change- ↑ Vittorio Pozzo at WorldFootball.net
- ↑ "Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo" [Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ Jamie Rainbow (4 July 2013). "The Greatest Manager of all time". World Soccer.
- ↑ Jamie Rainbow (2 July 2013). "The Greatest XI: how the panel voted". World Soccer. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
- ↑ "La Stella al Merito Sportivo a Vittorio Pozzo". La Stampa (in Italian). No. 150. 25 June 1938. p. 2.
Other websites
changeWikimedia Commons has media related to Vittorio Pozzo.
- Biography of Vittorio Pozzo Yahoo.com
- Vittorio Pozzo – What they said FIFA.com
- Vittorio Pozzo International Statistics at Italia1910.com (in Italian)