Giancarlo De Sisti
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Date of birth | 13 March 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1960–1965 |
Roma | 87 | (13) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1965–1974 | Fiorentina | 256 | (28) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1974–1979 |
Roma | 135 | (9) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 478 | (50) | |||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1967–1972 | Italy | 29 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1981–1985 | Fiorentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1985–1987 | Udinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1991–1992 |
Ascoli | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Giancarlo De Sisti (Italian pronunciation:
Club career
Best known by his nickname Picchio, during his club career, De Sisti played for his hometown club
International career
Internationally, De Sisti earned 29 caps and scored 4 goals for the
Coaching career
Following his retirement, De Sisti pursued a coaching career, achieving his coaching badges in 1980, and becoming head coach of his former club Fiorentina later that year, narrowly missing out on the league title to rivals Juventus in 1982. He was forced to leave his job in 1985 after being diagnosed with brain abscess.[2][4] He returned to football with
In March 2003 – after over a decade of inactivity – De Sisti returned into coaching, joining
Style of play
A creative and technically gifted deep-lying playmaking midfielder, who is regarded as one of Italy's and Roma's greatest ever playmakers, De Sisti was known for his simple yet efficient style of play; this involved him constantly looking for spaces, playing many short and accurate passes on the ground, and taking very few touches of the ball, in order to retain possession, reduce the chance of errors, and set his team's tempo. He was known for his composure under pressure and his consistency, and rarely misplaced passes or lost possession. He was also gifted with excellent vision and long passing ability, which allowed him to create goalscoring opportunities and play accurate lobbed passes and through-balls to team-mates.[1][2][6]
Outside of football
On 3 July 1968, De Sisti founded the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC), in Milan, along with several fellow footballers, such as Giacomo Bulgarelli, Sandro Mazzola, Ernesto Castano, Gianni Rivera, and Giacomo Losi, as well as the recently retired Sergio Campana, also a lawyer, who was appointed president of the association.[7]
De Sisti also later worked as a television and radio football pundit.[2]
Career statistics
Club
Season | Team | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||||
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Tournament | Apps | Goals | Tournament | Apps | Goals | Tournament | Apps | Goals | Tournament | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
1960–61 | A.S. Roma
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A | 2 | 0 | CI |
1 | 1 | CdF | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 |
1961–62 | A | 11 | 1 | CI |
1 | 0 | CdF | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 13 | 1 | |
1962–63 | A | 18 | 2 | CI | 0 | 0 | CdF | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 23 | 3 | |
1963–64 | A | 28 | 7 | CI | 4 | 0 | CdF | 4 | 2 | CdA | 1 | 0 | 37 | 9 | |
1964–65 | A | 28 | 3 | CI | 1 | 1 | CdF | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 34 | 5 | |
1965–66 | Fiorentina | A | 34 | 5 | CI | 6 | 0 | CdF | 3 | 1 | CM | 2 | 0 | 45 | 6 |
1966–67 | A | 30 | 6 | CI | 1 | 0 | CdC | 2 | 1 | CM | 4 | 0 | 37 | 7 | |
1967–68 | A | 30 | 6 | CI | 2 | 0 | CdF | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 36 | 7 | |
1968–69 | A | 30 | 2 | CI | 3 | 0 | CdF | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 39 | 2 | |
1969–70 | A | 27 | 2 | CI | 6 | 1 | CC | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 39 | 3 | |
1970–71 | A | 29 | 3 | CI | 11 | 3 | CdF | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 44 | 6 | |
1971–72 | A | 29 | 1 | CI |
10 | 2 | - | - | - | CM | 6 | 0 | 45 | 3 | |
1972–73 | A | 27 | 1 | CI | 4 | 2 | CU | 1 | 0 | CA-I | 7 | 1 | 39 | 4 | |
1973–74 | A | 19 | 2 | CI | 3 | 1 | CU | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | 24 | 3 | |
Totale Fiorentina | 256 | 28 | 46 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 348 | 41 | |||||
1974–75 | A.S. Roma
|
A | 29 | 5 | CI | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 39 | 5 |
1975–76 | A | 28 | 2 | CI | 4 | 0 | CU | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 38 | 2 | |
1976–77 | A | 28 | 2 | CI | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 3 | |
1977–78 | A | 25 | 0 | CI | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | 0 | |
1978–79 | A | 25 | 0 | CI | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | 0 | |
Totale Roma | 222 | 22 | 33 | 3 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 278 | 29 | |||||
Totale carriera | 478 | 50 | 79 | 12 | 44 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 626 | 70 |
Honours
Club
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1960–61
- Coppa Italia: 1963–64
- Serie A: 1968–69
- Coppa Italia: 1965–66
- Mitropa Cup: 1966
International
- Italy[8]
- 1968
- FIFA World Cup Runner up: 1970
Individual
- ACF Fiorentina Hall of Fame: 2013[9]
- A.S. Roma Hall of Fame: 2016[10]
References
- ^ a b c d "DE SISTI" (in Italian). Enciclopedia Giallorossa. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fabrizio Maffei. "De Sisti, Giancarlo" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport (2002). Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- ^ Roberto Di Maggio (14 May 2003). "Giancarlo De Sisti - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d Mario Gherarducci (13 March 2003). "De Sisti canta "Grazie Lazio" "Nessuno mi faceva lavorare"" [De Sisti sings "Grazie Lazio": "Nobody ever called me for giving me a job"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Milan. p. 47. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
- ^ Pietro Pinelli (22 June 2003). "Lazio, si abbatte la scure della Gea". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Milan. p. 55. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
- ^ a b Giorgio Dell’Arti (8 January 2014). "Giancarlo De Sisti" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ "La storia". assocalciatori.it (in Italian). Associazione Italiana Calciatori. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- ^ a b c "Giancarlo De Sisti" (in Italian). Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ "IV Hall of Fame Viola: Toldo, Chiarugi e non solo entrano nella galleria degli onori" (in Italian). violanews.com. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ "Hall of Fame". A.S. Roma. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2017.