Giuseppe Brizi
Brizi captaining Fiorentina in 1974
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-03-19)19 March 1942
Place of birth Macerata, Italy
Date of death 9 June 2022(2022-06-09) (aged 80)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Robur Macerata 1905[1]
Maceratese[2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1962 Maceratese[3] 62 (1)
1962–1976 Fiorentina[3] 374 (2)
1976–1977 Maceratese[3] 17 (0)
Managerial career
1979–1981 Maceratese
1982–1983 Lanciano
1983–1984 Maceratese
1984–1986 Fermana
1992–1996 Sangiustese
1996–1997 Maceratese
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giuseppe Brizi (19 March 1942 – 9 June 2022)[4] was an Italian professional football player and manager who played as a defender.[5] In 2012, he was inducted into ACF Fiorentina Hall of Fame.[6]

Player career

Brizi debuted in professional football during the 1959–60 Serie C season, when he played as a midfielder for Maceratese.[3][5] In 1962, he was then bought by Fiorentina, where Ferruccio Valcareggi eventually decided to play him as a sweeper.[3] In Florence, Brizi had his best spell of his career, making 389 appearances (becoming the player with the second highest number of appearances in the history of the club)[7] and contributing to winning, among others, one Scudetto and two Coppa Italia.[5]

He was part of the Italy national B team's's squad that won the 1963 Mediterranean Games.

Managerial career

Brizi was the manager of Maceratese for three non-consecutive tenures, where he won his Girone during the 1979–80 Serie D season,[8] Lanciano, Fermana, and Sangiustese.[9]

Honours

Player

Fiorentina

Italy

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Mozzoni, Andrea (20 April 2017). "Giuseppe Brizi, i valori dell'oratorio anche in Serie A". EmmeTV (in Italian). Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "108 anni di sport con i giovani di Macerata". Robur1905Macerata.it. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Brizi Giuseppe". Enciclopediadelcalcio.it. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Papini, Roberto Davide (9 June 2022). "Fiorentina in lutto: è morto Brizi, il Beckenbauer viola. Vinse il secondo scudetto". La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 Prizio, Stefano; Signoria, Leonardo (2016). La Fiorentina dalla A alla Z. Newton Compton Editori. ISBN 978-8854195448.
  6. 1 2 "La prima edizione della Hall of Fame Viola". Nove da Firenze (in Italian). 28 September 2012. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Auguri mitico Pino Brizenbauer!". Viola News (in Italian). 19 March 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Maceratese calcio: una storia quasi centenaria, dagli albori alla sua fine". Vivere Macerata (in Italian). 23 December 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "Giuseppe Brizi". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
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