Aldo Boffi

Aldo Boffi
Personnel
birthday	February 26, 1915
place of birth	Giussano ,  Italy
date of death	October 26, 1987
Place of death	Giussano ,  Italy
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1936-1945	AC Milan	164 (109)
1945-1946	Atalanta Bergamo	17 00(3)
1946-1952	Seregno Calcio	107 0(56)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1938-1939	Italy	2 (0) 00
1 Only league games are given.

Aldo Boffi (born February 26, 1915 in Giussano , Italy ; † October 26, 1987 there ) was an Italian football player .

Career

Aldo Boffi, born in 1915 in Giussano in the Italian region of Lombardy in the north of the country, began playing football at the top club AC Milan in the fashion metropolis of the same name. His first season in the Milan jersey was in 1936/37 . In 22 league games in Serie A he scored eight goals and contributed to reaching fourth place in the table, while Bologna FC won the Scudetto . The following year, Boffi's goalscoring rate was already better and at the end of all match days he finished fourth in the list of the best league goal scorers, while AC Milan finished third, just three points behind local rivals and champions Ambrosiana-Inter . In the 1938/39 season , Milan only reached a disappointing ninth place, but Boffi was the best league scorer with nineteen goals of the season, together with the Uruguayan Ettore Puricelli in the service of FC Bologna, which won the championship in 1938/39. In 1939/40 , Aldo Boffi again scored the most goals in Serie A, this time 24 in thirty league games. For his club, however, the season ended again only in a midfield position, namely eighth. In the following season things went better for Milan and they finished fifth, but this time Boffi only scored sixteen goals this season. In Serie A 1941/42 , AC Milan finished tenth in the table and Aldo Boffi was the top scorer with 22 goals in 26 league games, for the third time in his young career. In the next season he made only ten games due to an injury, in which he scored four goals. After that, Italy's league operations were interrupted by the Second World War.

After the war ended in 1945, Aldo Boffi went to Atalanta Bergamo . With this club he played for one season in the series AB 1945/46 , in which the teams had to qualify in addition to the championship also for whether they played first or second class next year. Atalanta made it into the Serie A 1946/47 , but the club could not play for the championship. Aldo Boffi made seventeen games and scored three goals in the one year he played in Bergamo. For the 1946/47 season, Boffi moved to the second division Seregno Calcio , where he played football for the next six years in Serie B and a year in Serie C. In the 1946/47 season he scored 32 goals in 36 league games and contributed to the fact that Seregno was fourth in the Girona A, which meant the best placement of the now underclass club in Serie B at all. Boffi eventually played for Seregano until 1952, before ending his career at the age of 37.

Aldo Boffi ran twice for the Italian national soccer team . These two international matches were spread over the years 1938 and 1939. Both in the 2-0 success against Switzerland on November 20, 1938 in Bologna and in the 2-5 defeat against the national team of the German Reich in Berlin on November 26th In 1939 the attacker failed to score.

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