Anselmo Hugo Pisa (7 April 1918 – 16 October 1965) was an Argentine-Italian professional footballer and manager. He was the younger brother of Silvestro Pisa, and therefore known as Pisa II.

Career

Anselmo Pisa started playing football in Argentina with Platense moving then to Banfield. In 1940, he lands in Italy signaled by Alfredo Di Franco, sports manager of

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, a squad where we started playing in

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

; Pisa remains with the team for the following season. In 1942-1943 he is at Ambrosiana-Inter. With the Allied invasion of Italy in

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Anselmo Pisa moved to neutral

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

, joining Estoril Praia where he would finish his playing career. After finishing his career as a footballer, Pisa began coaching Estoril Praia in the 1948/49 season. In 1949 he signed up as coach with

Lusitano de Évora Lusitano Ginásio Clube, MHC, also commonly known as Lusitano de Évora (abbrev. Lusit. Évora), is a Portuguese sports club based in Évora competing in the Liga 3 (Portugal), the third tier league in the Portuguese football system. Founded ...

where he was the mastermind behind the historical promotion of the Eborian team to the Portuguese Primeira Divisão for the first time in their history. He went to coach Torreense then in the second tier from 1953 to 1954 where he almost repeated the stunt of taking another club to the top tier. After a brief return to Estoril-Praia, in 1955, he signed with

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

as assistant to his fellow countryman Alejandro Scopelli and coaching the youth team where we was youth national and regional champion (1956 and 1957). For a short period between these two trophies he led the first team in two matches in 1956. He then sat on the bench of

Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its Association football, football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth natio ...

which he also led to the

Primeira Divisão The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga P ...

for the first time. He eventually coached

Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses (), commonly known as Os Belenenses or simply Belenenses, is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 19,856 ...

and

CUF Barreiro Grupo Desportivo Fabril is a Portuguese sports club established as Grupo Desportivo CUF do Barreiro (commonly known as CUF Barreiro), with CUF standing for the company Companhia União Fabril. A multisports club best known for its football secti ...

. Anselmo Pisa died in 1965 at the age of 47 from a long-term illness. On the centennial of his birth (7 April 2018) the municipality of Aveiro dedicated a street in the surroundings of the Aveiro Municipal Stadium to Anselmo Pisa in recognition of the feat of taking

for the first time to the Portuguese

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pisa, Anselmo 1918 births 1965 deaths Footballers from Buenos Aires Argentine men's footballers Italian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders SS Lazio players G.D. Estoril Praia players Primeira Liga players Serie A players Italian football managers Primeira Liga managers Liga Portugal 2 managers G.D. Estoril Praia managers Sporting CP managers S.C. Beira-Mar managers C.F. Os Belenenses managers 20th-century Italian sportsmen 20th-century Argentine sportsmen