Vittorio Pozzo

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

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

Honours

Manager
Italy

Individual
  • Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011[2]
  • Berlin-Britz Manager of the Decade (1930s)[3][4]
  • World Soccer Magazine 13th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013[5][6]

Orders
  • Stella al Merito Sportivo[7]

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. "Messi and Ronaldo: Equal!". UPL. 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  4. Banyas, Volodymyr (25 October 2013). "Berlin-Britz Greatest XI by Decade". No. № 88. newspaper Ukrainskyi Futbol.
  5. Jamie Rainbow (4 July 2013). "The Greatest Manager of all time". World Soccer.
  6. 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.
  7. "La Stella al Merito Sportivo a Vittorio Pozzo". La Stampa (in Italian). No. 150. 25 June 1938. p. 2.

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