Anton Cargnelli

Association footballer (1889-1974)

Anton Cargnelli (1 February 1889 - 27 June 1974 ) was an Austrian football player and football coach. He won the Austrian championship once with Wiener AF in the 1913-14 season. He also played one match for the Austrian national football team As coach he won the Scudetto, the Italian championship, with FC Torino in 1928 and 1940 with Ambrosiana-Inter.

Anton Cargnelli
Personal information
Date of birth (1889-02-01)1 February 1889
Place of birth Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 27 June 1974(1974-06-27) (aged 85)
Place of death Albenga, Italy
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Rennweger SV 1901
AC Viktoria Wien
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
-1910 Germania Schwechat
1910-1919 Wiener AF
1919-1921 Germania Schwechat
National team
1909 Austria 1 (0)
Teams managed
1920-1921 Germania Schwechat (playing coach)
1921-1922 VfL Köln 1899
1922-1923 SC Idar-Oberstein
1923-1924 Borussia Dortmund
1924 SK Admira Wien
1925-1926 VfB Mühlburg
1926-1927 Poli Timișoara
1927-1929 FC Torino
1930-1931 Palermo FC
1932-1933 US Foggia
1933-1934 US Bari
1934-1936 FC Torino
1936-1938 US Bari
1938-1940 Ambrosiana-Inter
1940-1942 AC Torino
1942-1943 AC Liguria
1943-1944 AC Cuneo
1946-1948 Lazio Roma
1948 Lucchese
1948-1949 FC Bologna
1950-1951 US Alessandria
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

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He was the son of an Italian father and grew up in Vienna. Cargnelli started playing football in the Rennweger SV youth team in 1901. He came to SC Germania Schwechat via AC Viktoria Wien. He played there as forward. In 1910 he joined the newly founded Wiener AF. There he now played as defender. In the 1913/14 Cargnelli's team won the championship. In the following season, the WAF reached second place in the championship, which was overclouded by the beginning of the war.

In 1919 he returned to the Germania Schwechat. He again played as a striker . At the same time Cargnelli took over the training of all the teams. In 1921 he ended his active career.

International

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In May 1909, Cargnelli played his only game in the Austrian national team in a 1-1 draw against Hungary in Budapest. He was in the forward line with Karl Beck.

Manager

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After he had already worked as a player-coach at the end of his playing career, he took a coaching career. He first took sports science courses in Germany . Then he took coaching positions in Cologne, Idar-Oberstein and Dortmund.[1] For half a season he trained SK Admira WienThen he coached FC Mühlburg in 1924/25. This was followed by a year in Romania. He then moved to Italy, where he spent the rest of his coaching career.

His first stop was FC Torino, with whom he was able to win the championship title in 1928. In 1929 the Turin team lost in the final to AGC Bologna. After the introduction of Serie A, Cargnelli moved to the second division club US Palermo for three seasons. This was followed by working for US Foggia and AS Bari. In 1934 he returned to Torino. Two more years in Bari followed before Cargnelli accepted an offer from Milan and moved to Ambrosiana. There he won the Italian Cup with his team in 1939 and became Italian champions the following year with players .[2]

During the war years he again looked after Torino. Hee was runner-up once and was involved in building the team that would later become famous as Grande Torino. After the end of the war, Cargnelli spent two more seasons at Lazio and Bologna before Cargnelli ended his career at third division club US Alessandria Calcio.

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