Carlo Carcano

Carlo Carcano

File:Carlo Carcano 1920.png Carcano in 1920
Personal information
Date of birth	26 February 1891
Place of birth	Varese, Italy
Date of death	23 June 1965(1965-06-23) (aged 74)
Place of death	Sanremo, Italy
Position	Central midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1913–1915	US Alessandria
1915–1916	Internazionale (loan)	2	(0)
1916–1924	US Alessandria
1924–1925	Atalanta	7	(0)
1925–1926	Internaples	8	(0)
International career
1915–1921	Italy	5	(1)
Managerial career
1925–1926	Internaples
1926–1930	US Alessandria
1928–1929	Italy
1930–1934	Juventus
1934–1935	Genoa (assistant trainer)
1945–1946	Internazionale
1948	Internazionale
1949	Atalanta
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carlo Carcano (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo ˈkarkano]; 26 February 1891 – 23 June 1965) was an Italian footballer and manager who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Carcano was born in Varese. As a player, he was a one club man, playing for Alessandria.

International career

At international level, Carcano also represented Italy on 5 occasions between 1915 and 1921, scoring once.

Managerial career

After he retired from playing, Carcano moved into management to much acclaim. He led Juventus to four consecutive league titles; the first of only two managers in Italy football history (alongside Massimiliano Allegri) to win four in a row. He later also managed the Italy national football team.

He was suddenly removed from the Juventus club in December 1934 in order to stifle a homosexual scandal in which he was involved by elements of society hostile to him. He remained on the edge of the football world for a decade.

Personal life

Carcano died in Sanremo, aged 74, on 23 June 1965.

Carlin's Boys

In 1947 in Sanremo Carlo Carcano was one of the co-founder of A.S.D. Carlin's Boys, a town football team famous above all for the youth sector that in the 2014–15 season playing in Promozione Liguria A and obtaining the promotion to Eccellenza Liguria is the main team of the city. In the same season the club won also Coppa Italia of Promozione Liguria and the title of Champion of Promozione Liguria.

The current president is Renato Bersano, while the coach is Valentino Papa.

The club organizes, every year in the last week of August, the Torneo Internazionale Sanremo reserved for the category Allievi, with the participation of the most prestigious and famous junior teams of the world football.

Honours

Manager

Club

Juventus

• Serie A: 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34

Individual

• Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2014