Armando Picchi
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 20 June 1935 | ||
Place of birth | Livorno, Italy | ||
Date of death | 27 May 1971 | (aged 35)||
Place of death | Sanremo, Italy | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) |
libero | ||
Youth career | |||
1949–1954 |
Livorno | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1954–1959 |
Livorno | 99 | (5) |
1959–1960 |
SPAL | 27 | (1) |
1960–1967 | Inter Milan | 206 | (1) |
1967–1969 |
Varese | 46 | (0) |
Total | 378 | (7) | |
International career | |||
1964–1968 | Italy | 12 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1968–1969 |
Varese | ||
1969–1970 |
Livorno | ||
1970–1971 | Juventus | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Armando Picchi (Italian pronunciation:
Club career
Early career
Born in
Captain of Grande Inter
A versatile
When Bolchi moved to
Later career
After his time at Inter Milan, Picchi played for two seasons at
International career
Picchi made his debut for Italy several months after becoming Intercontinental champion with Inter Milan, in a 6–1 victory over Finland in November 1964. However, Italy coach at that time, Edmondo Fabbri, deemed him unsuitable for the team's scheme, as he felt he was too defensive minded, and subsequently left him out of the squad for 1966 World Cup in England.[3]
Under the management of Ferruccio Valcareggi, he was regularly called for the qualifying matches of Euro 1968. Yet a fractured pelvis injury in a match against Bulgaria in April 1968, ruled him out of the competition, which concluded his last match with the Azzurri, totalling 12 international appearances.[4]
Style of play
A quick, versatile, and tenacious defender, Picchi began his career playing as a
Coaching career and death
After his playing career was over, Picchi pursued a coaching career in 1969; he went on to coach Varese, Livorno and then Juventus, until 16 February 1971, when he was hospitalised because of cancer, which ended his coaching career prematurely. He died three months later, at the age of 35, due a tumour in his sixth left rib.[6][7]
Legacy
After his death in 1971, a memorial tournament, Memorial Armando Picchi, was played in his honour.[10] On 21 October of the same year, the football club Armando Picchi Calcio was founded in his memory.[11]
As of 1990, the
Honours
Inter Milan[6]
Individual
References
- ^ "Armando Picchi, inter.it archive". archivio.inter.it. 10 July 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ^ "La leggenda della Grande Inter" [The legend of the Grande Inter] (in Italian). Inter.it. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ a b Mario Gherarducci (25 May 2001). "Picchi, il battitore libero che mandava in crisi il Mago" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Nazionale in cifre: Picchi, Armando". figc.it (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
- ^ Mario Sconcerti (23 November 2016). "Il volo di Bonucci e la classifica degli 8 migliori difensori italiani di sempre" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ a b c Fabio Monti. "PICCHI, Armando" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Armando Picchi: storia di un eroe malinconico" (in Italian). Tutto Calciatori. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ a b Simone Bernabei (20 June 2016). "Armando Picchi, il libero livornese capitano all'Inter con Helenio Herrera" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb.com. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Moratti ricorda Picchi "Era il perno dell'Inter"" (in Italian). Inter.it. 13 June 2014. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ Il 19 inizia il quadrangolare Armando Picchi - l'Unità Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Armando Picchi Calcio Livorno – La storia" (in Italian). www.armandopicchi.it. Archived from the original on 7 May 2006. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini and Bonansea among those inducted". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
External links
- Inter Profile (in Italian)
- FIGC Profile (in Italian)