Lido Vieri

Lido Vieri
Personal information
Full name Lido Vieri
Date of birth (1939-07-16)16 July 1939
Place of birth Piombino, Italy
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1954–1957 Torino
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1958Vigevano (loan) 31 (0)
1958–1969 Torino 265 (0)
1969–1976 Inter Milan 140 (0)
1976–1980 Pistoiese 63 (0)
Total 499 (0)
National team
1963–1968 Italy 4 (0)
Teams managed
1980–1981 Pistoiese

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Lido Vieri (born 16 July 1939) is a former Italian football manager and former football player who played as a goalkeeper.

He won the 1968 European Championship and was a runner-up at the 1970 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team.

Club career

During his club career he played for Torino, Inter and Pistoiese. Vieri won the Coppa Italia with Torino during the 1967–68 season,[1] and the 1970–71 Serie A with Inter.[2][3]

International career

Vieri earned 4 caps for the Italy national football team between 1963 and 1968.[4] He was a backup keeper to Zoff and Albertosi in Italy's victorious 1968 UEFA European Football Championship campaign on home soil under manager Ferruccio Valcareggi, and also at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, where Italy reached the final.[2]

Style of play

A quick, physically strong, consistent, and dominant keeper, regarded as one of the best Italian goalkeepers of his generation,[1] Vieri won the "Premio Combi" during the 1962–63 season, which was awarded to the best goalkeeper in Serie A.[5] Throughout his career he made a name for himself as an aggressive, vocal, and commanding goalkeeper. Vieri was an elegant and acrobatic shot-stopper, who was known in particular for his athleticism, spectacular saves, and ability to rush off his line, as well as his command of the area, leadership, and handling of crosses; despite his goalkeeping ability, he also gained a degree of infamy for his tenacity and strong character throughout his career.[2][6]

Honours

Lido Vieri

Club

Torino
Inter

International

Italy[7]

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hall of Fame: Lido Vieri". Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lido Vieri, il portiere marinaio che parava senza noia: "Ma ora usano i piedi"" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. "Lido Vieri". Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  4. "Nazionale in cifre: Vieri, Lido". figc.it (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  5. "8 giugno 1958: esordisce Lido Vieri" (in Italian). Toro.it. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  6. Filippo Nassetti (8 January 2016). "5 portieri scudettati per 50 anni di Inter, visti da Luciano Castellini" (in Italian). Panorama.it. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  7. "L. Vieri". Soccerway. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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