Vittorio Pozzo

Vittorio Pozzo

Pozzo as Torino manager in 1920
Personal information
Date of birth	(1886-03-02)2 March 1886
Place of birth	Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Date of death	21 December 1968(1968-12-21) (aged 82)
Place of death	Turin, Italy
Position(s)	Midfielder[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1906	Grasshoppers
1906–1911	Torino
Teams managed
1912	Italy
1912–1922	Torino
1921	Italy
1924	Italy
1924–1926	Milan
1929–1948	Italy
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Vittorio Pozzo (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈpottso]; 2 March 1886 – 21 December 1968) was an Italian footballer, manager and journalist.

Honours

Manager

Italy

• FIFA World Cup: 1934, 1938
• Central European International Cup: 1927–30, 1933–35
• Men's Olympic football: 1936

Individual

• Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011^[2]
• World Soccer Magazine 13th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013^[3][4]

Orders

• Stella al Merito Sportivo^[5]

References

1. Vittorio Pozzo at WorldFootball.net
2. "Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo" [Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo]. La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
3. Jamie Rainbow (4 July 2013). "The Greatest Manager of all time". World Soccer.
4. Jamie Rainbow (2 July 2013). "The Greatest XI: how the panel voted". World Soccer. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
5. "La Stella al Merito Sportivo a Vittorio Pozzo". La Stampa (in Italian). No. 150. 25 June 1938. p. 2.

Other websites

• Biography of Vittorio Pozzo Yahoo.com
• Vittorio Pozzo – What they said FIFA.com
• Vittorio Pozzo International Statistics at Italia1910.com (in Italian)