- Ignazio Arcoleo
Infobox Football biography
playername = Ignazio Arcoleo
fullname = Ignazio Arcoleo
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1948|2|15
cityofbirth =Palermo
countryofbirth =Italy
currentclub =
position = Manager (formermidfielder )
youthyears =
youthclubs = Elenka T.N. Juventina Palermo
years = 1966-1967 1968-1969 1970-1974 1974-1978 1978-1980 1980-1982 1982-1983
clubs = Palermo Taranto Palermo Genoa PalermoReggina Calcio Nocerina
caps(goals) = 4 (0) 2 (0) 126 (5) 132 (8) 62 (1) ? (?)
nationalyears =
nationalteams =
manageryears = 1983-1985 1985-1986 1992-1995 1995-1997, 1998 1999-2000 2000-2001 2002 2005 2006
managerclubs = Mazara Akragas Trapani Palermo Gualdo Foggia Frosinone Nocerina Trapani ("technical director")Ignazio Arcoleo (born
February 15 ,1948 inPalermo ) is an Italian formerfootball (soccer) player and manager.Playing career
Arcoleo, born in
Mondello , aPalermo maritime "frazione ", to a fishermans' family, started his professional career in 1966/1967 for his home city team. He returned to play for Palermo in 1970, becoming one of the most representative players for the "rosanero" in the period. He also played aCoppa Italia final in 1974, being the author of the foul toGiacomo Bulgarelli which allowed Bologna to kick and score the equaliser penalty in injury time, and then win the tournament on penalty shootouts. From 1974/1975 to 1977/1978, Arcoleo played for Genoa, being remembered as the author of the first football goal ever shown on colour TV, during aSerie A home match against Torino ended in a 1-1 tie and played onFebruary 6 ,1977 [ [http://www.francobrain.com/palermo-rosanero.htm] , [http://www.akaiaoi.com/Genoa_1976-77.htm] and [http://www.akaiaoi.com/Tabellini_1976-77.htm] ] .Arcoleo returned to Palermo, then in
Serie B , on 1978, and again played another unsuccessful Coppa Italia final, lost to top division giants Juventus. He left Palermo in 1980 and retired in 1983.Managing career
In 1983/1984, Arcoleo started his managing career, becoming head coach of
Serie D team Mazara. He coached Mazara for two seasons, winning the Serie D league in 1985: however the promotion was then cancelled by the federation because of alleged matchfixing. In 1985/1986, Arcoleo unsuccessfully coached Akragas, as the then-Serie C2 team relegated at the end of the season despite very strong performances in the second half of the season.Arcoleo had his breakthrough at the coaching level during his years at the helm of Trapani, another Serie D team, which he led from the top amateur league to Serie C1 and almost reaching an otherwise historical promotion to
Serie B , being defeated on playoffs by Gualdo. Thanks to his results on Trapani, Arcoleo was called to coach "his" Palermo the next season. The 1995/1996 Palermo, widely considered a minorSerie B team, was mostly composed by local players, most of them right from Arcoleo's Trapani: despite this, the "rosanero" managed to play one of their best seasons in the 1990s, obtaining a seventh place in the final league table and gaining several successes in the Coppa Italia, eliminatingSerie A well-established teams such as Parma and Vicenza.The following 1996/1997 season, however, was the beginning of Arcoleo career breakdowns, as he was fired and Palermo then sadly relegated to Serie C1. Arcoleo was recalled to coach Palermo in the latest matches of the 1997/1998 Serie C campaign, with the "rosanero" involved in a heavy struggle to avoid relegation, ended to a shocking loss to Battipagliese on playoffs which meant to be the second consecutive relegation for both Arcoleo and Palermo.
Since then, Arcoleo coached a number of
Serie C teams (Gualdo, Foggia, Frosinone, Nocerina) never being able to end the season in his position. In 2006, he also made a comeback at Trapani, now inSerie D , as "technical director" and aide for the head coach, but did not achieve any success and instead saw his team relegated toEccellenza . He is currently a football pundit for a number of regional TV channels of Sicily.References
Persondata
NAME= Arcoleo, Ignazio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Arcoleo, Ignazio
SHORT DESCRIPTION=footballer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH=1948-2-15
PLACE OF BIRTH=Palermo ,Italy
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
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