Gigi Riva
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Luigi Riva[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 7 November 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Leggiuno, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 January 2024 | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cagliari, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward, Striker | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1961–1962 | Laveno Mombello | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1962 | Legnano | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1962–1963 | Legnano | 23 | (6) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1963–1976 | Cagliari | 315 | (164) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 338 | (170) | |||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1965–1974 | Italy | 42 | (35) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1988–2013 | Italy (technical director) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Luigi Riva (7 November 1944 – 22 January 2024) was an Italian football player. He played for Italy national team.
Death
[change | change source]On 21 January 2024, Riva was hospitalized at the San Michele Hospital in Cagliari, Italy because of acute coronary syndrome.[3][4] He died of a heart attack the next day at the age of 79.[5][6]
Career statistics
[change | change source]Club
[change | change source]Club | Season | League | Coppa Italia | League Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Legnano | 1962–63 | Serie C | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 6 |
Cagliari | 1963–64 | Serie B | 26 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 8 |
1964–65 | Serie A | 32 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 12 | |
1965–66 | Serie A | 34 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 11 | |
1966–67 | Serie A | 23 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 19 | |
1967–68 | Serie A | 26 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 16 | |
1968–69 | Serie A | 29 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 28 | |
1969–70 | Serie A | 28 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 27 | |
1970–71 | Serie A | 13 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 18 | |
1971–72 | Serie A | 30 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 24 | |
1972–73 | Serie A | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 20 | |
1973–74 | Serie A | 25 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 15 | |
1974–75 | Serie A | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | |
1975–76 | Serie A | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | |
Total | 315 | 164 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 374 | 207 | ||
Career total | 338 | 170 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 397 | 213 |
International
[change | change source]National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Italy | 1965 | 1 | 0 |
1966 | 1 | 0 | |
1967 | 4 | 6 | |
1968 | 2 | 2 | |
1969 | 6 | 8 | |
1970 | 10 | 6 | |
1971 | 3 | 2 | |
1972 | 6 | 4 | |
1973 | 7 | 7 | |
1974 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 42 | 35 |
Honours
[change | change source]Cagliari[7]
Italy[7]
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1970
- UEFA European Championship: 1968
Individual
- Serie A top scorer: 1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70[8]
- Ballon d'Or: runner-up: 1969; third place: 1970[9]
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1968[10]
- World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: 1999[11]
- Golden Foot "Football Legends": 2005[12]
- Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011[13]
- Inducted into the Walk of Fame of Italian sport: 2015[14][15]
- Inducted into the Cagliari Hall of Fame[16]
- Cagliari Greatest All-time Starting XI[16]
Orders
- 3rd Class / Commander: Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 1991[17]
- 2nd Class / Grand Officer: Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana:2000[18]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Riva Sig. Luigi" [Riva Mr. Luigi]. Quirinale (in Italian). Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Riva, Luigi" (in Italian). enciclopediadelcalcio.it. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- ↑ "È morto Gigi Riva". Il Post (in Italian). 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ↑ "I medici del Brotzu: «Gigi Riva ha rifiutato l'intervento di angioplastica». Ecco le ultime ore del grande campione del Cagliari". La Nuova Sardegna (in Italian). 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ↑ "Gigi Riva, è morto il mito del calcio italiano". La Repubblica. 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ↑ "Gigi Riva è morto, era stato ricoverato dopo un malore in casa" [Gigi Riva has died, he was hospitalized after an illness at home]. Rai News (in Italian). 22 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Riva, the Italian roar of thunder". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ Roberto Di Maggio; Igor Kramarsic; Alberto Novello (11 June 2015). "Italy - Serie A Top Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ↑ Rob Moore; Karel Stokkermans (21 January 2011). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ↑ "EURO 1968 team of the tournament". UEFA. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ↑ "World Soccer 100 Players of the Century". Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ↑ "Golden Foot Legends". goldenfoot.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ↑ "Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo" [Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo] (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "Inaugurata la Walk of Fame: 100 targhe per celebrare le leggende dello sport italiano" (in Italian). Coni. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ↑ "CNA 100 Leggende CONI per data di nascita" (PDF) (in Italian). Coni. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Speciale: Top 11 - Cagliari" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ↑ "Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" (in Italian). 6 December 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
- ↑ "Zoff Sig. Dino – Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". quirinale.it (in Italian). 12 July 2000. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Coni: Consegna dei Collari d'Oro e dei Diplomi d'Onore. Premia il Presidente del Consiglio Romano Prodi. Diretta Tv su Rai 2" (in Italian). Coni.it. 16 October 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ↑ "Coni, Collare d'Oro assegnato al Torino e a Gigi Riva" (in Italian). Il Corriere dello Sport. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.