Enzo Bearzot
Bearzot c. 1975
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| Full name | Enzo Bearzot | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 September 1927 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Aiello del Friuli, Italy | ||||||||
| Date of death | 21 December 2010 (aged 83) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Milan, Italy | ||||||||
| Playing position | Defender, Defensive midfielder | ||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1946–1948 | Pro Gorizia | 39 | (2) | ||||||
| 1948–1951 | Internazionale | 19 | (0) | ||||||
| 1951–1954 | Catania | 95 | (5) | ||||||
| 1954–1956 | Torino | 65 | (1) | ||||||
| 1956–1957 | Internazionale | 27 | (0) | ||||||
| 1957–1964 | Torino | 164 | (7) | ||||||
| Total | 409 | (15) | |||||||
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| 1955 | Italy | 1 | (0) | ||||||
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| 1964–1967 | Torino (youth) | ||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Prato | ||||||||
| 1969–1975 | Italy U23 | ||||||||
| 1975–1986 | Italy | ||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Vincenzo "Enzo" Bearzot (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛntso bearˈtsɔt]; 26 September 1927 – 21 December 2010) was an Italian professional football manager and former footballer, who played as a defender or midfielder. He led the Italian national team to a triumph in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Nicknamed Vecio (vecchio, 'old man'), he holds the record for most appearances on the bench of the Italian national team at 104 times from 27 September 1975 to 18 June 1986.
A year after his death, an award was named in honour of the 1982 World Cup winning coach, the "Enzo Bearzot Award", for the best Italian coach of the year.
Born in Aiello del Friuli, in the friulian Province of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Bearzot was son of a bank teller and attended high school at Udine. He had a moderately successful playing career as a centre back. Enzo Bearzot made his debut in professional football with Pro Gorizia in 1946, a team he left in 1948 to join Internazionale. After three seasons with the Nerazzurri, Bearzot moved to Sicily and joined Catania for three more seasons.
In 1954 he moved to Torino, which was rebuilding after the tragedy of Superga in 1949. In two seasons as a starter he played 65 matches, scoring one goal. In 1956 he returned to Internazionale where he appeared 27 times, the last of which was a 3–2 defeat at Bologna on 9 June 1957. The following year he returned to Torino. Here, he made 164 appearances and scored 7 goals for the Granata before retiring in 1964, aged 37, to take up coaching.
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