Vittorio Pozzo
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Playing position | 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
Manager
- Italy
Individual
- Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011[2]
- Berlin-Britz Manager of the Decade (1930s)[3][4]
- World Soccer Magazine 13th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013[5][6]
Orders
- Stella al Merito Sportivo[7]
Vittorio Pozzo Media
Pozzo (left), Italy's manager at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, gives directions to Monzeglio and Bertolini before the start of extra-time in the victorious final versus Czechoslovakia
The Metodo of Vittorio Pozzo
References
- ↑ 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 italiano). 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "Messi and Ronaldo: Equal!". UPL. 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ↑ Banyas, Volodymyr (25 October 2013). Berlin-Britz Greatest XI by Decade. newspaper Ukrainskyi Futbol.
- ↑ 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" (in it). La Stampa (150): 2. 25 June 1938. http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,2/articleid,1130_01_1938_0150_0002_16731137/anews,true/.
Other websites
- Biography of Vittorio Pozzo Yahoo.com
- Vittorio Pozzo – What they said FIFA.com
- Vittorio Pozzo International Statistics at Italia1910.com (in Italian)