Fernando Veneranda

Fernando Veneranda
Personal information
Date of birth	23 May 1941
Place of birth	Porto San Giorgio, Italy
Date of death	1 March 2007 (aged 65)
Place of death	Porto San Giorgio, Italy
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
?–1960	Sangiorgese
Senior career*
Years	Team
1960–1962	Fiorentina
1962–1964	Prato
1964–1966	Brescia
1966–1967	Potenza
1967–1968	Palermo
1968–1969	Genoa
1969–1973	Matera
Managerial career
1973–1974	Matera
1974–1975	Campobasso
1975–1976	Marsala
1976–1979	Palermo
1979–1980	Verona
1980–1981	Palermo
1981–1982	Foggia
1982–1984	Avellino
1984–1985	Cagliari
1985–1986	Palermo
1986–1987	Taranto
1988–1989	Taranto
1990–1991	Triestina
1991–1992	Messina
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fernando Veneranda (23 May 1941 – 1 March 2007 in Porto San Giorgio) was an Italian football (soccer) player and manager.

Playing career

Veneranda, a forward, started his professional career for Fiorentina, where he played from 1960 to 1963. He never played a single Serie A match, but appeared in a Cup Winners' Cup match, as well as in the Coppa Italia and Mitropa Cup. He owns the record of being the Fiorentina players with the highest number of appearances without having ever played a league match.^[3] He then played for a number of Serie A, B and C clubs. Veneranda ended his playing career in 1973 for Matera, and soon became manager of the same club.

Managing career

After his time at Matera, Veneranda moved to Campobasso, Marsala, and to Palermo, a former playing club of his, at the end of the 1976/1977 season. He is best remembered among Palermo fans for having led the Serie B club to its second Coppa Italia final in history, then lost 2–1 to giants Juventus. Despite this, Veneranda coached only a single Serie A team in his whole career, Avellino; he was called to coach the biancoverdi in October 1982 and obtained a good ninth place for the small club; he was fired after the tenth matchday of the next season. Veneranda retired from football in 1992, after he relegated to Serie C1 with Messina.

Veneranda died on 1 March 2007, aged 65, in his native city of Porto San Giorgio.^[4]

References

^ "La storia del Potenza S.C. dal 1978 al 1986" (in Italian). 11 LEONI. 23 May 1941. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
^ "Sicilian Clubs in Serie B". Rsssf.com. 4 June 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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^ "Calcio - Oggi l'addio all'ex tecnico dei lupi Fernando Veneranda » IRPINIANEWS.IT". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2007.

[1] "La storia del Potenza S.C. dal 1978 al 1986" (in Italian). 11 LEONI. 23 May 1941. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2013.

[2] "Sicilian Clubs in Serie B". Rsssf.com. 4 June 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2013.

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[4] "Calcio - Oggi l'addio all'ex tecnico dei lupi Fernando Veneranda » IRPINIANEWS.IT". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 8 March 2007.

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