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Vittorio Pozzo ((:vitˈtɔːrjo ˈpottso); 2 March 1886 in Turin, Italy – 21 December 1968 in Ponderano (Biella)) was an Italian football coach and journalist. He is best known for leading the Italian national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1936 Olympic football gold medal and the 1928 Olympic bronze medal. Pozzo also managed the champions of the 1930 and 1935 Central European International Cup and oversaw the famous unbeaten run of the Italian side from December 1934 until 1939. Famous for creating the ''Metodo'' tactical formation, he is the only person to guide his national team to two FIFA World Cup final wins, men's or women's, as a coach. ==Early career== Vittorio Pozzo was born into a modest family of biellesi, precisely from Ponderano. He attended the Liceo Cavour in Turin, his hometown; he later studied languages and played football in France, Switzerland and England, particularly loving the later and trying to unravel the secrets of football. In his formative years Pozzo, who had come from a reasonably comfortable background, travelled widely. He studied in Manchester at the turn of the 20th century and met Manchester United half-back Charlie Roberts and Derby County's inside-left Steve Bloomer. As a player, he played professionally in Switzerland for Grasshopper Club Zürich the 1905–06 season, before returning to Italy where he helped found Torino F.C. (then "Foot-Ball Club Torino"), a team which he played for five seasons until retiring from football in 1911. He would serve as the technical director of Torino from 1912 to 1922. After completing his studies, he joined Pirelli, where he became manager, a position he would leave for the Italian national team, accepting the unique and singular condition of not being paid. He was appointed commissioner for the first time of the national team during the Olympic Games in Stockholm in June 1912, the first debut ever for an Italian selection in an official competition. The team was eliminated in the first round losing 3-2 to Finland after extra time. Pozzo resigned and returned to work at Pirelli; only to return to the national team in the hands of a so-called "technical committee", a committee composed curiously of federal managers, referees, players, former players, coaches and journalists.〔 Throughout his first term the national team was guided by this diverse group of people. With the brief exception of Augusto Rangone (in 1925-1928) and Carlo Carcano (1928- 1929), Pozzo was the only person to play the role of sole commissioner until the sixties. Pozzo would also serve with the Alpini as lieutenant during the First World War. This experience marked him deeply: he drew an experience of moral rectitude and education modesty and essential difficult life in the trenches which he applied consistently to human relationships and professional sports. In 1921, Pozzo was commissioned by the Football Association to study a draft reform of the league to address the tensions between the bigger and the smaller teams, because it was thought that the number of participants in the championship had to be reduced. The mediation failed resulting in the split between the FIGC and CCI, before merging again the following year. In 1924, on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Paris, Pozzo was again appointed sole commissioner. This time the ''Azzurri'' were able to reach the quarter-finals, where they were beaten by 2-1 by Switzerland. After this defeat, Vittorio Pozzo resigned and returned to devote himself to his work and his wife, who shortly after died due to a disease. After the death of his wife, he moved to Milan, where he held his job at Pirelli, alongside that of a journalist for La Stampa in Turin, which he continued almost until his death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sportstar : Thursday, March 22, 2012 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vittorio Pozzo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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