Pietro Vierchowod
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 6 April 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Calcinate, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1973–1976 | Romanese | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1981 | Como | 115 | (6) |
| 1981–1982 | Fiorentina | 28 | (2) |
| 1982–1983 | Roma | 30 | (0) |
| 1983–1995 | Sampdoria | 358 | (25) |
| 1995–1996 | Juventus | 21 | (2) |
| 1996–1997 | Milan | 16 | (1) |
| 1997–2000 | Piacenza | 79 | (6) |
| Total | 647 | (42) | |
| National team | |||
| 1981–1993 | Italy | 45 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2001 | Catania | ||
| 2002 | Florentia Viola | ||
| 2005 | Triestina | ||
| 2014 | Budapest Honvéd | ||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Pietro Vierchowod (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛtro ˈvjɛrkovud]; born 6 April 1959) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender, and a current manager. He also represented the Italian national side during his career, and was most notably a member of the Italian squad that won the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian centre-backs of all-time, and one of the best of his generation, during his playing career he was nicknamed lo Zar ("the Tsar") because of his pace, defensive ability, physicality, tenacious playing style, and Ukrainian descent; he was the son of a Ukrainian Red Army soldier.
Vierchowod was initially a man-marking centre-back, who also later excelled in a zonal-marking system. He started his professional football career for Como, before moving to Fiorentina. However, his first successes came when he moved to Roma, winning a Serie A scudetto in 1983. Then he moved to Sampdoria, with whom he won four Italian Cups, one European Cup Winners' Cup and another scudetto in 1991. In 1995 he signed for Juventus, where he acted as an experienced defender and won his only UEFA Champions League in 1996 at the age of 37. He played the final in Rome against Ajax which Juve won on penalties. He then moved on to Milan and Piacenza, for whom he continued to play regularly despite being 41 years of age. He eventually retired in 2000. Vierchowod played 562 Serie A matches, and is the seventh-highest appearance holder of all time in Serie A, behind only to Paolo Maldini, Javier Zanetti, Francesco Totti, Gianluigi Buffon, Gianluca Pagliuca, and Dino Zoff.
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