page_title: Enzo Bearzot
section_title: Managerial career
hierarchical_section_title: Enzo Bearzot / Managerial career
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Roma, stadio Olimpico, 17 novembre 1976. Da sinistra: il commissario tecnico dell'Italia, Enzo Bearzot, e i giocatori azzurri Marco Tardelli e Roberto Bettega, festeggiano al fischio finale la vittoria sull'Inghilterra (2-0) nella sfida valevole per le qualificazioni al campionato del mondo 1978.
context_page_description: Vincenzo "Enzo" Bearzot was an Italian professional football manager and former footballer, who played as a defender or midfielder. He led the Italian national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
  Nicknamed Vecio, he has coached the Italian national football side the most.
  A year after his death, an award was named in honour of the 1982 World Cup winning coach, the "Enzo Bearzot Award", for the best Italian coach of the year.
context_section_description: After having ended his playing career, Bearzot became assistant coach of Torino, working alongside Italian managers Nereo Rocco and Giovan Battista Fabbri. He successively moved in Tuscany to take his first head coaching job in Tuscany at the helm of Serie C side Prato.
  However, Bearzot did not go on a club career, and chose instead to start working for the Italian Football Federation: first as under-23 head coach, then as assistant coach of Ferruccio Valcareggi in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. After the German World Cup, Bearzot was appointed as assistant coach of Fulvio Bernardini, and was then promoted head coach of Italy in 1975.  Bearzot  drove the national team to fourth place in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. This performance was repeated in the 1980 European Championship, hosted by Italy.
  In the 1982 FIFA World Cup, after poor performances in the three first matches, Bearzot announced the so-called silenzio stampa (press silence) in order to avoid rising criticism from the Italian press. Following that, the Italian team finally started to play its best football, defeating Argentina and Brazil (see Italy v Brazil (1982 FIFA World Cup)) in the second round, Poland in the semi-final and Germany in the Final, and winning the  World Cup for the first time since 1938.
  Italy did not qualify for the Euro 1984. Bearzot resigned after the 1986 FIFA World Cup, which saw Italy being defeated in the round of 16 by France. Bearzot was criticised during the latter tournament for relying too heavily on players from the 1982 team, as some of them were past their best form by 1986.
  He holds the record for the most times on the bench as manager of Italy, with 104 appearances.
  After a long period of inactivity, Bearzot was appointed President of the FIGC Technical Sector (Settore Tecnico, the main football coaching organization of Italy) in 2002. He left this office in 2005.
caption: Bearzot, manager of the Italian national team, celebrates with Tardelli and Bettega after a victory over England in November 1976
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