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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luis Antonio Carniglia | ||
| Date of birth | (1917-10-04)4 October 1917 | ||
| Place of birth | Olivos, Argentina | ||
| Date of death | 22 June 2001(2001-06-22) (aged 83) | ||
| Place of death | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1932–1933 | Club de Olivos | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1933–1936 | Tigre | ? | (?) |
| 1936–1941 | Boca Juniors | 54 | (17) |
| 1942–1945 | Chacarita | 14 | (3) |
| 1945–1948 | Atlas | ||
| 1951–1952 | Nice | 10 | (1) |
| 1952–1953 | Toulon | 26 | (4) |
| 1953–1955 | Nice | 8 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1955–1957 | Nice | ||
| 1957–1959 | Real Madrid | ||
| 1959 | Real Madrid | ||
| 1959–1960 | Fiorentina | ||
| 1961 | Bari | ||
| 1961–1963 | Roma[1] | ||
| 1963–1964 | Milan | ||
| 1964–1965 | Deportivo La Coruña | ||
| 1965–1968 | Bologna | ||
| 1969–1970 | Juventus | ||
| 1973 | San Lorenzo | ||
| 1978–1979 | Bordeaux[2] | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of June 2007 | |||
Luis Antonio Carniglia (4 October 1917 – 22 June 2001) was an Argentinefootball striker and manager. He played forBoca Juniors in the 1930s, but is probably best known for managingReal Madrid in the 1950s.Luis Carniglia was buried inLa Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.
Born inOlivos, Carniglia began his career in the fourth division club Club de Olivos, in 1932. He remained there for one season before joiningTigre, but this was only a stepping stone on his way to completing his childhood dream of playing forBoca Juniors, whom he signed for in 1936. His debut, for Boca, was in a friendly played in Parana and was quite a spectacle. Carniglia had a goal within 3 minutes and a fractured left arm by the fifth minute.[3] Boca went on to win the game 3–0. He was part of the Boca side that won the 1940Argentine First Division and theCopa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren.
1941 was a turn for the worse in his professional career, in a game againstSan Lorenzo, Carniglia broke his leg.[4] The recovery took three years which he spent atChacarita Juniors andAtlas, though he was never the same player again. He prolonged his career by playing in the FrenchLigue 1 andLigue 2 withToulon andNice, transitioning into the role of manager with Nice. That is not to say that his final years as a player were entirely fruitless, he won the Ligue 1 title and aCoupe de France in 1952, and the Coupe de France again in 1954, all with Nice.
Following his return toNice in 1953, Carniglia played two more seasons before retiring as a player and taking over the reins as the new Nice manager, from the British managerGeorge Berry. He had immediate success winning theLigue 1 title with Nice in his first year. The following season, 1956–57, saw Nice finish 13th in Ligue 1. Carniglia then left to take over the Spanish giantsReal Madrid.[5] Nice replaced him with the French coachJean Luciano.
Carniglia was Real Madrid head coach from June 1957 to July 1959 with a two-month stop from February 1959 due to a renal colic. Madrid, at the time, had some of the greatest footballing talent in the world withAlfredo di Stéfano (holder of theBallon d'Or at the time),Francisco Gento,Raymond Kopa andHéctor Rial. These greats were joined in 1957 byJosé Santamaría andFerenc Puskás in 1958. Carniglia did not have a high opinion of Puskás when he arrived, as he had not played professionally in over a year and was considerably over weight. Carniglia whipped him into shape with Puskás losing 15 kg before his firstLa Liga game againstOviedo.[6] Carniglia left Puskás out of the 1959 European cup final, which led to his being sacked bySantiago Bernabéu,[6] the chairman of Real. Carniglia's time with Real was the most fruitful in his management career, winning theEuropean Cup twice, in1958 with a 3–2 win overA.C. Milan and in1959 with a 2–0 win overReims. He also won the La Liga title in1958.
Carniglia had short spells atFiorentina andBari before joiningRoma in 1961. With Roma, he won the1961Fairs Cup.[7]Following his mid season departure from Roma in 1963, apparently due to arguments with the club directors,[8] he took over at A.C. Milan, the team he had beaten in the1958 European Cup Final. Milan were the reigning European Cup holders and competed in theIntercontinental Cup. They played theBrazilian sideSantos featuringPelé at the height of his prowess in the final 1963 final. Milan won the opening game 4 – 2 inMilan, Pelé scoring both goals for Santos. Before the second leg rumors began to circulate that theArgentinian referee had been bribed,[8] Milan tried to have match official changed but were barred from doing so. Santos won the second game 4 – 2, without Pelé who was injured. With the two leg final a stalemate, a third decisive play-off game took place inSantos just 48 hours after the second leg. The same match official was used for the playoff game. In the third minute, of the playoff,Giovanni Trapattoni was adjudged to have fouled a player in the box and Santos had a penalty, which they duly converted.Cesare Maldini protested and was sent off. Santos won the fixture 1 – 0.
Following his retirement as a coach Carniglia had a spell as General Manager of Boca Juniors withSilvio Marzolini as the coach. He was the first president of FAA (Futbolistas Argentinos Agremiados), his home country's footballers union.
His sonLuis César Carniglia was also a footballer. he spent his entire career inItaly playing someSerie A matches before lowering to amateurs leagues.[9] Lot of media and references mistakenly consider father and sons to be the same person.
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