Mauro Bellugi

Mauro Bellugi represents a kind of footballer I genuinely respect: the unglamorous defender who holds a team's spine together. Born in 1950 in Buonconvento near Siena, he played as a defender and later coached, passing the craft along. What moves me most is the dignity of his final years, when illness took his legs yet he kept speaking about the game he loved until his death in 2021. Stars get the headlines, but men like Bellugi earn the lasting affection. I think of him less as a celebrity and more as someone worth honoring quietly.

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Name (English)

Mauro Bellugi

Name (Japanese)

マウロ・ベルージ

Reading

まうろ・べるーじ

Born

February 7, 1950 – February 20, 2021

Origin

Buonconvento, Province of Siena, Italy

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• bronze medal for athletic prowess

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro%20Bellugi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508658

Tags

• Province of Siena
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.