Mauro Bellugi
![]() Mauro Bellugi with Inter Milan in 1972 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mauro Bellugi | ||
Date of birth | 7 February 1950 | ||
Place of birth | Buonconvento, Italy | ||
Date of death | 20 February 2021 | (aged 71)||
Place of death | Milan, Italy | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1969–1974 | Inter Milan | 90 | (1) |
1974–1979 | Bologna | 93 | (0) |
1979–1980 | Napoli | 30 | (0) |
1980–1981 | Pistoiese | 20 | (0) |
Total | 233 | (1) | |
International career | |||
1972–1980 | Italy | 32 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mauro Bellugi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmauro belˈluːdʒi]; 7 February 1950 – 20 February 2021) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.[1]
Club career
[edit]Bellugi started his career with Inter Milan, making his debut for them on 31 August 1969 in a Coppa Italia match. In five seasons with Inter he played 90 Serie A matches, and 137 times in all senior competitions.[2]
Bellugi later also played for Bologna F.C. (1974–79), S.S.C. Napoli (1979–80) and A.C. Pistoiese (1980–81).[1]
International career
[edit]Bellugi played 31 matches for the Italy national football team from 1972 to 1979.[1] He played five games in the 1978 FIFA World Cup,[3] where Italy managed a fourth-place finish, and was also in the squad for the 1974 tournament.[4] His final game for Italy was against Switzerland in Udine on 17 November 1979.[5] He was an unused member of the Italian squad that managed a fourth-place finish at UEFA Euro 1980 on home soil.
Death
[edit]Bellugi died from complications of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, thirteen days after his 71st birthday.[6]
References
[edit]![](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- ^ a b c Mauro Bellugi at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ "Mauro Bellugi". Inter.it archive. FC Internazionale Milano Spa. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ FIFA stats
- ^ Italy 1974 WC Squad
- ^ List of international appearances at RSSSF
- ^ Il calcio piange Mauro Bellugi: se ne va a 71 anni l’ex difensore dell’Inter (in Italian)
- 1950 births
- 2021 deaths
- Footballers from the Province of Siena
- Italian men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Italy men's international footballers
- 1974 FIFA World Cup players
- 1978 FIFA World Cup players
- UEFA Euro 1980 players
- Inter Milan players
- Bologna FC 1909 players
- SSC Napoli players
- US Pistoiese 1921 players
- Serie A players
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Lombardy
- Italian football defender, 1950s birth stubs