Antonio Angelillo
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Antonio Valentín Angelillo | ||
Date of birth | 13 September 1937 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Date of death | 5 January 2018 | (aged 80)||
Place of death | Siena, Italy | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) |
Inside forward, midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1952–1955 | Arsenal de Llavallol | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1955 | Racing | 9 | (3) |
1956–1957 | Boca Juniors | 34 | (16) |
1957–1961 |
Internazionale | 113 | (68) |
1961–1965 |
Roma | 106 | (27) |
1965–1966 |
A.C. Milan | 11 | (1) |
1966–1967 | Lecco | 12 | (1) |
1967–1968 |
A.C. Milan | 3 | (1) |
1968–1969 |
Genoa | 22 | (5) |
1969–1971 | Angelana | – | (–) |
International career | |||
1955–1957 | Argentina | 11 | (11) |
1960–1962 | Italy | 2 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
1971–1972 | Montevarchi | ||
1972–1973 |
Chieti | ||
1973–1974 |
Campobasso | ||
1974–1975 |
Rimini | ||
1975–1977 | Brescia | ||
1977–1978 |
Reggina | ||
1978–1979 |
Pescara | ||
1980–1984 |
Arezzo | ||
1984–1985 | Avellino | ||
1985 |
Palermo | ||
1987 |
Mantova | ||
1988 |
Arezzo | ||
1988–1989 | Avellino | ||
1988–1990 | AS FAR | ||
1989–1990 | Morocco | ||
1991–1992 |
Torres | ||
1994 | Provincial Osorno | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Antonio Valentín Angelillo (Italian pronunciation: national teams.
Club career
Born in Buenos Aires, Angelillo started playing professionally in Arsenal de Llavallol in 1952. In 1955 he played with Racing Club de Avellaneda and moved to Boca Juniors in 1956.[1]
Angelillo was part of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 South American Championship. That team, and its forward line in particular, was nicknamed The Angels with Dirty Faces (a reference to the then-celebrated Angels with Dirty Faces movie) due to both their irreverent style of play as well as to their less than rigorous attitude to training.[2] The nickname followed Angelillo when he, along with fellow national team forwards Omar Sívori and Humberto Maschio, moved from Argentina to play football in Italy after the tournament. There, the trio was also known as The Trio of Death due to their clinical ability in scoring goals.[3][4]
In 1957 Angelillo was signed by the Italian club
During the 1958–59 Serie A season, Angelillo scored 33 goals in 33 matches, finishing the season as the tournament's top scorer. His goal total was the highest since Gunnar Nordahl had scored 34 in the 1950–51 Serie A season, and is still the record for most goals in a single 18-team Italian division season;[5][6][3] no player scored as many goals in a single Serie A season until Gonzalo Higuaín finished the 2015–16 Serie A season with 36 goals – until then, the only player since Angelillo to break the 30 goal barrier had been Luca Toni, who scored 31 goals during the 2005–06 Serie A season. With 38 goals for Inter in all competitions throughout the 1950–51 season, Angelillo holds the club record for most goals in a single season, alongside Giuseppe Meazza.[9]
Although Angelillo was Internazionale's highest goalscorer while he was playing there, he did not win any titles with the Nerazzurri. When the club appointed
From 1961 to 1965, Angelillo played 106 games with Roma in Serie A, scoring 27 times, winning the
International career
In official tournaments, Angelillo played 11 matches and scored 11 goals for the
After moving to Italy and acquiring Italian citizenship through his grandfather, Angelillo later appeared for the Italy national team, making his debut in a 2–1 away defeat to Austria on 10 December 1960, although, in spite of the presence of several foreign-born Italian players – including his compatriots and former teammates Sívori and Maschio –, he was left out of the Italian squad for the World Cup in Chile two years later; in total he made two appearances for Italy between 1960 and 1962, scoring 1 goal, which came in his second and final appearance – a 6–0 home victory over Israel, held in Turin, on 4 November 1961.[5][6][7][3][8][12]
Style of play
A quick, talented, complete and prolific forward, with good movement and technique, Angelillo was mainly knowing for his goalscoring ability, although he was not a traditional
Coaching career
After retiring, Angelillo remained in Italy, where he became a coach, managing several lower division clubs. His most notable success came with
Personal life
Angelillo was married to Bianca, and had two children. Prior to his marriage, while playing for Inter during the 1960–61 season, he had a much publicised affair with the dancer Attilia Tironi – whose stage name was Ilya Lopez – whom he had met in a nightclub. His father was a butcher.[3][14][15]
Death
Angelillo died on 5 January 2018, in a hospital in Siena, at the age of 80.[5][6]
Honours
Player
Individual
- Serie A Top-scorer: 1958–59 (33 goals)[6][17]
Manager
- Prima Categoria: 1970–71
- Coppa Italia Serie C: 1980–81
- Serie C1: 1981–82 (Girone B)
AS FAR
- Moroccan League: 1988–89
References
- ^ "Morto Angelillo, primatista di reti segnate in un campionato" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 6 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ISBN 9781409144441.)
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- ^ Malta Today Archived 1 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Angelillo has died". Football Italia. 6 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Morto Angelillo, l'angelo del record da 33 gol: aveva 80 anni" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 7 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ a b c "Angelillo, Antonio" (in Italian). www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "ANGELILLO, Antonio Valentín" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport (2002). Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Matteo Dalla Vite (30 May 2011). "Eto' o 37 magie: "E chi si muove..."" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Martín Tabeira (12 August 2009). "Southamerican Championship 1957". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ "Omar Sivori". The Telegraph. 19 February 2005. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Antonio Valentin ANGELILLO" (in Italian). www.magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Claudio Gregori (12 February 2005). "Angelillo si schiera e porta l' Inter in gol" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ a b Giorgio dell'Arti (10 October 2013). "Biografia di Antonio Valentin Angelillo" (in Italian). www.cinquantamila.it. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ a b GIANNI BRERA (24 August 1989). "L' ANGELO INNAMORATO" (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Gian Luca Rossi (26 January 2001). "Unico superstite: Javier Zanetti". www.gianlucarossi.it (in Italian). Eurocalcio. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Maurizio Mariani (6 May 2002). "Classifica Marcatori". Italy 1958/59. RSSSF. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
External links
- Inter Archive (in Italian)
- "Inter Angelillo's page". Archived from the original on 10 March 2005. Retrieved 25 February 2005.
- Angelillo with Boca Juniors (in Spanish)
- Biography (in Spanish)
- FIGC profile (in Italian)
- Argentine Players in Italy