Silvio Piola

Silvio Piola
Personnel
birthday	September 29, 1913
place of birth	Robbio ,  Italy
date of death	4th October 1996
Place of death	Gattinara ,  Italy
size	180 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1929-1934	US Pro Vercelli	127 0(51)
1934-1943	Lazio Rome	227 (143)
1943-1944	Torino FC	23 0(27)
1945-1947	Juventus Turin	57 0(26)
1947-1954	Novara Calcio	185 0(86)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1935-1952	Italy	34 0(30)
1 Only league games are given.

Silvio Piola (born September 29, 1913 in Robbio (PV) , † October 4, 1996 in Gattinara (VC) ) was an Italian football player .

Career

Center forward Silvio Piola is the most successful goalscorer in the history of Italian football. In his long career in Serie A , he scored a total of 274 goals between 1930 and 1954. However, it had its most successful period in the 1930s. First he played from 1930 to 1934 in the US Pro Vercelli , but not until he 1934 Lazio went, he became 1935 Italian national team and the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France champion. Together with Giuseppe Meazza , he was the best player of the tournament and scored five goals (two of them in the final against Hungary ). At this world championship he laid the foundation for his legend. The Italian fans called him Silvio Gol because of his scoring danger . In the quarter-finals Italy played against hosts France and Silvio Piola decided the game with two goals to make it 3-1 for Italy. The French newspapers then called him the executioner of the French . Piola made himself immortal during his lifetime by bringing the overhead kicker to such perfection that it was named after him (Piola kicker).

His career was interrupted by World War II in 1943 when Serie A games ceased and it seemed that this was the end of Silvio Piola's great career. In 1945, however, he was back at Juventus Turin for the first season after the war . He ended his career between 1947 and 1954 at the northern Italian provincial club Novara Calcio . He played his last international match for Italy in 1952 at the age of 39.

By the 1979/80 season, when he was surpassed by Dino Zoff , Piola had the most appearances in Serie A with 537 league games .

additional

In Borgo Vercelli , Vercelli and Galliate stadiums are named after Silvio Piola.

Web links

Commons : Silvio Piola  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Silvio Piola in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on the website of the Italian Federation (Italian)