Giampiero Vitali

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Giampiero Vitali
Personal information
Date of birth (1940-08-01)1 August 1940
Place of birth Milan, Italy
Date of death 20 May 2001(2001-05-20) (aged 60)
Place of death Milan, Italy
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1962
Fanfulla
44 (3)
1962–1964
Triestina
70 (4)
1964–1966
Lazio
46 (2)
1966–1967 Fiorentina 17 (0)
1967–1968 Brescia 18 (0)
1968–1969
S.P.A.L.
20 (2)
1969–1976
Massese
245 (25)
Managerial career
1975–1976
Massese
(assistant)
1977–1978
Empoli
1978
Pisa
1979–1981
Lucchese
1982–1983
Empoli
1983–1984
Perugia
1984–1985
Varese
1985–1986
Sambenedettese
1987
Campobasso
1987–1989 Parma
1989
Como
1991
Empoli
1991–1992
Taranto
1993–1994
Modena
1995
Palermo
1996
Pistoiese
1997
Palermo
1997–2000
Carrarese
(technical director)
1998
Carrarese
(caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giampiero Vitali (1 August 1940 — 20 May 2001) was an Italian

football defender and later manager.[1][2]
He died in 2001, aged 60, due to an incurable disease.[3][4]
Overall, as a player, he scored 81 appearances and 2 goals in
Massese
. With
Massese he obtained a promotion from Serie C to Serie B, still setting the record for matches played in the league with 245 appearances.[5]

When he ceased playing sports, he had twenty years of experience as a coach (to his credit 13
Empoli and ended his career at Carrara, in Serie C1, season 1997-1998, when hired as Technical Director, the management asked him to return to coaching (with the team relegated to the last place in the standings), managing to save the Tuscans.[6][7]

In total, as a professional coach, he directed 539 matches in the league, of which 317 in
Serie B, 154 in Serie C1 and 68 in Serie C2.[8] Since 2001, the year of his death, a sporting event has been organized annually in Tuscany in memory of him,[9] which attracts great personalities from the world of sport.[10][11][12]
In 2020 the
Stadio degli Oliveti in Massa was named after him.[13]


References

  1. ^ Giampiero Vitali at FootballDatabase.eu
  2. ^ Giampiero Vitali at WorldFootball.net
  3. ^ Calcio in lutto: è morto Giampiero Vitali - La Gazzetta dello Sport, 21 maggio 2001
  4. ^ È morto Giampietro Vitali. Aveva giocato con Lazio e Fiorentina - Corriere della Sera, 21 maggio 2001
  5. ^ Vitali Giampiero, Enciclopedia Del Calcio - www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it
  6. ^ M. Becherucci - M. Braglia - G. Magnani (2008). Cuoreazzurro, storia personaggi miti della U.S. Carrarese 1908-2008. Società Editrice Apuana. p. 239.
  7. ^ Vitali, nove anni non cancellano il lutto, il calcio apuano piange ancora il mister - Il Tirreno, 18 maggio 2010
  8. ^ Claudio Nassi e Alfio Tofanelli (1999). Tutto calcio 1998/99. Ed. CALCIOSPORT s.a.s. p. 946.
  9. ^ "MemorialGianpieroVitali, il portale dell'evento dedicato a Gianpiero Vitali".
  10. ^ Marcello Lippi: sono qui al memorial perché sono legato alla famiglia Vitali - Il Tirreno, 11 agosto 2006
  11. ^ Il "Calcio sotto l'ombrellone" aspetta l'ex CT azzurro Sacchi - Il Tirreno, 5 agosto 2009
  12. ^ Memorial Vitali: ricordare un amico parlando di calcio Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine - Gazzetta di Parma, 13 agosto 2010
  13. ^ Lo stadio intitolato a Giampiero Vitali quinewsmassacarrara.it