Aldo Agroppi

Aldo Agroppi

Personal information
Date of birth	14 April 1944
Place of birth	Piombino, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1963–1975	Torino	212	(15)
1964–1965	→ Genoa (loan)	0	(0)
1965–1966	→ Ternana (loan)	26	(6)
1966–1967	→ Potenza (loan)	35	(3)
1975–1977	Perugia	37	(2)
National team
1972–1973	Italy	5	(0)
Teams managed
1980–1981	Pescara
1981–1982	Pisa
1982–1983	Perugia
1983–1984	Padova
1984–1985	Perugia
1985–1986	Fiorentina
1987–1988	Como
1990	Ascoli
1993	Fiorentina
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Aldo Agroppi (born 14 April 1944 in Piombino) is a professional Italian football coach and a former footballer, who played as a midfielder.

Playing career

Agroppi played for 12 seasons (249 games, 17 goals) in Serie A with clubs Torino Calcio and Perugia Calcio.^[1]

He made his international debut for the Italy national football team on 17 June 1972 in a game against Romania.^[2]

Managerial career

As a coach, Agroppi managed several Italian clubs throughout his career: Pescara, Pisa, Perugia, Padova, Fiorentina, Como, and Ascoli. He coached Fiorentina on two occasions: he firstly coached the team during the 1985–86 season, leading the club to a fourth-place finish in Serie A, although he was subsequently banned from football for 4 months for his involvement in the Totonero 1986 match-fixing scandal during his spells with Perugia;^[3] he later returned to manage the team in the 1992–93 season, but with less success, as the club were relegated to Serie B at the end of the season.^[4]

References

1. Aldo Agroppi at National-Football-Teams.com
2. "Agroppi Aldo". FIGC. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
3. Gianluca Ferraris. "Calcioscommesse: i precedenti" (in Italian). Panorama. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
4. Andrea Martelli. "Aldo Agroppi da piombino, mica Nazareth" (in Italian). Mai dire Calcio. Retrieved 31 October 2015.