Giuseppe Brizi

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]

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

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. "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. Prizio, Stefano; Signoria, Leonardo (2016). La Fiorentina dalla A alla Z. Newton Compton Editori. ISBN 978-8854195448.
  6. "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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