Farewell to Alfredo Magni: condolences from Monza, his favorite team

The world of soccer says goodbye to Alfredo Magni. Born in 1940, he was a good defender and, after hanging up his boots, an excellent coach.

His career, both as a footballer and as a coach, was linked above all to Monza. With the biancorossi’s jersey he played from 1960 to 1967, before moving to Como, a team in which he played until 1973, the year he officially retired.

He then began his coaching career. He sat, in two different periods (from 1975 to 1980 and from 1983 to 1986) on the bench of Monza, coming close to promotion to Serie A several times. He also coached many other clubs, including Brescia, Arezzo, Varese, Genoa, Venice and, as his last stop, Lecco (year 2011). Among his successes as a coach was winning the C1 championship in the 1975/76 season with Monza.

Monza’s condolences: “AC Monza mourns the passing of Alfredo Magni, a footballer and then coach of the red and white team who wrote the history of the club. As a player he wore the Brianzoli jersey from 1960 to 1967, hitting a Promotion in Serie B in 1966-67. In 1975 he returned to the red and white to coach Monza, which he immediately brought back to Serie B, also winning the Anglo-Italian Cup against Wimbledon in June 1976. Magni led a courageous and spectacular team that was nicknamed “the Borussia of Brianza” and made an entire generation of Brianza fans dream, touching the first historic Promotion to Serie A for four consecutive years. He left the Monza bench in 1980, but returned to coach it in a second stint from 1983 to 1987. In recent years he continued to follow the biancorossi live and from home, and each of his visits to the Sports Center or the Stadium brought great joy. Because Alfredo Magni was and is Monza. Ciao Mister.”