Alberto Bigon

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Alberto Bigon
Personal information
Full name Alberto Bigon
Date of birth October 31, 1947 (1947-10-31) (age 60)
Place of birth    Padua, Italy
Playing position Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club FC Sion (Sport Director)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1964-1966
1966-1967
1967-1970
1970-1971
1971-1980
1980-1982
1982-1984		 Padova
Napoli
SPAL
Foggia
AC Milan
Lazio
Vicenza		  ? (?)
? (?)
? (?)
? (7)
218 (56)
? (?)
57 (15)[1]   
Teams managed
1986-1987
1987-1989
1989-1991
1991-1992
1992-1993
1994-1995
1996-1997
1997-1998
1999-2000
2007-2007		 Reggina
Cesena
Napoli
Lecce
Udinese
Ascoli
FC Sion
Perugia
Olympiacos
FC Sion

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Alberto "Albertino" Bigon (born October 31, 1947 in Padua) is an Italian football manager and former player.

[edit] Playing career

Bigon started his playing career for his native city team Padova. He made his Serie A debut with SPAL in 1967, but obtained most of his playing triumphs with AC Milan, where he played from 1971 to 1980. He appeared in 218 league matches with AC Milan, scoring 56 goals and winning a Serie A championship in 1979, as well as three Coppa Italia tournaments (1972, 1973, 1977) and a Cup Winners' Cup (1973). Bigon retired from playing football in 1984.

[edit] Coaching career

Bigon coached his first team, Reggina, in 1986-1987, then Cesena, in 1987. He coached Cesena until 1989, when he left to coach Napoli, then led by Diego Maradona. He immediately won a Serie A championship, the second in Napoli's history. He then won the Italian Super Cup the same year. He left the club in 1991, after a poor eighth place followed by Maradona's forced farewell to Napoli. He then coached minor clubs such as Lecce (Serie B), Udinese (Serie A, saved from relegation after playoffs) and Ascoli (Serie B). In 1996, he was appointed coach of Swiss team FC Sion, which he led to win Swiss Super League for its second time in history. Bigon then tried an unsuccessful return to Serie A with Perugia. In November 1999 he was appointed coach of Greek club Olympiacos, but was fired on February 2000 despite the first place in the championship table.

After seven years without a job, Bigon made a comeback to football in February 2007, when he was appointed coach of FC Sion, a team he already managed years before.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Italian) [1]
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S.S.C. Napoli – Managers

Kreutzer (1926–27) • Skasa (1927) • Steiger (1927–28) • Otto Fischer (1928–29) • Garbutt (1929–35) • Csapkay (1935–36) • Mattea (1936–38) • Payer (1938) • Jodice (1938–39) • Baloncieri (1939–40) • Vojak (1940–43) • Innocenti (1943) • Sansone (1945–46) • Sallustro (1947–48) • Sentimenti (1948) • Borel (1948–49) • Mattioli (1949) • Vittorio Mosele (1949) • Monzeglio (1949–56) • Amadei (1956–59) • Frossi (1959) • Amadei (1959–61) • Sallustro (1961) • Baldi (1961–62) • Pesaola (1962–63) • Lerici (1963–64) • Molino (1964) • Pesaola (1964–68) • Chiappella (1968–69) • Di Costanzo (1969) • Chiappella (1969–73) • Vinicio (1973–76) • Del Frati (1976) • Pesaola (1976) • Rivellino (1977) • Di Marzio (1977) • Vinício (1978) • Sormani (1980) • Marchesi (1980–82) • Giacomini (1982) • Pesaola (1982–83) • Santi (1983–84) • Marchesi (1984–85) • Bianchi (1985–89) • Bigon (1989–91) • Ranieri (1991–93) • Bianchi (1993) • Lippi (1993–94) • Guerini (1994) • Boškov (1994–96) • Simoni (1996–97) • Montefusco (1997) • Mutti (1997) • Mazzone (1997) • Galeone (1997–98) • Montefusco (1998) • Ulivieri (1998–99) • Montefusco (1999) • Novellino (1999–2000) • Zeman (2000) • Mondonico (2000–01) • De Canio (2001–02) • Colomba (2002) • Buso (2002) • Scoglio (2002–03) • Colomba (2003) • Agostinelli (2003) • Simoni (2003–04) • Ventura (2004) • Reja (2005–)
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Udinese Calcio – Managers

Milutinović (1987–88) • Galeone (1994–95) • Zaccheroni (1995–98) • Guidolin (1998–99) • Spalletti (2000–01) • Hodgson (2001) • Spalletti (2002–05) • Cosmi (2005–06) • Dominissini (2006) • Galeone (2006–07) • Malesani (2007) • Marino (2007–)
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FC Sion – current squad

1 El-Hadary • 2 Kali • 3 Nwaneri • 5 João Pinto • 6 Mijadinoski • 7 Reset • 8 Alioui • 9 Saborío • 10 Beto • 11 Dabo • 12 Paíto • 13 Geiger • 16 Crettenand • 17 Vanczák • 18 Vailati • 19 Ahouéya • 20 Suljevic • 21 González • 22 Obradović • 23 Domínguez • 23 M'Futi • 25 Germanier • 27 Adeshina • 29 Berisha • 30 Beney • 31 Bühler • Manager: Bigon