Carlo Carcano

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Carlo Carcano

| image = Carlo Carcano 1920.png

| image_size = 200px

| alt =

| caption = Carcano in 1920

| fullname =

| birth_date = 26 February 1891

| birth_place = Varese, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1965|6|23|1891|2|26}}

| death_place = Sanremo, Italy

| height =

| position = Central midfielder

| years1 = 1913–1915

| years2 = 1915–1916

| years3 = 1916–1924

| years4 = 1924–1925

| years5 = 1925–1926

| clubs1 = US Alessandria

| clubs2 = Internazionale (loan)

| clubs3 = US Alessandria

| clubs4 = Atalanta

| clubs5 = Internaples

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| caps2 = 2

| goals2 = 0

| caps3 =

| goals3 =

| caps4 = 7

| goals4 = 0

| caps5 = 8

| goals5 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1925–1926

| manageryears2 = 1926–1930

| manageryears3 = 1928–1929

| manageryears4 = 1930–1934

| manageryears5 = 1934–1935

| manageryears6 = 1945–1946

| manageryears7 = 1948

| manageryears8 = 1949

| managerclubs1 = Internaples

| managerclubs2 = US Alessandria

| managerclubs3 = Italy

| managerclubs4 = Juventus

| managerclubs5 = Genoa (assistant trainer)

| managerclubs6 = Internazionale

| managerclubs7 = Internazionale

| managerclubs8 = Atalanta

| nationalyears1 = 1915–1921

| nationalteam1 = Italy

| nationalcaps1 = 5

| nationalgoals1 = 1

}}

Carlo Carcano ({{IPA|it|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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/players/ital-coach-champs.html|title=Italy - Coaches of Championship Teams}} 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.carlinsboys.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726004837/http://www.carlinsboys.com/ |archive-date=26 July 2012 }} a town football team famous above all for the youth sector{{cite web |url=http://www.carlinsboys.com/storia.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=21 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923200520/http://www.carlinsboys.com/storia.html |archive-date=23 September 2015 }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.carlinsboys.com/torneo.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413222027/http://www.carlinsboys.com/torneo.html |archive-date=13 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}

Honours

=Manager=

==Club==

;Juventus

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

=Individual=

Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2014{{cite web|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/27-10-2015/hall-of-fame-vialli-mancini-facchetti-ronaldo-herrera-agnelli-tardelli-ferlaino-130676725232.shtml|title=Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo|trans-title=Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo|publisher=La Gazzetta dello Sport|language=it|date=27 October 2015|access-date=27 October 2015}}