Attilio Giovannini (soccer player)

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Attilio Giovannini
Personnel
birthday July 30, 1924
place of birth Verona ,  Italy
size 175 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1942-1943 Audace San Michele Extra
1945-1947 FC Bozen
1947-1948 US Lucchese Libertas 36 (0)
1948-1954 Ambrosiana-Inter 191 (0)
1954-1956 Lazio Rome 45 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1949-1953 Italy 13 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Attilio Giovannini (born July 30, 1924 in Verona ) is a former Italian football player . Active for Ambrosiana-Inter at club level for a long time , he also took part in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Attilio Giovannini was born on July 30, 1924 in the northern Italian city ​​of Verona in the San Michele Extra district. He started playing football at Audace San Michele Extra , a relatively insignificant national club from his home district. After the end of the Second World War and the associated break in play, the young defender was signed by FC Bozen from South Tyrol in 1945 . Bolzano played third-rate at the time, Attilio Giovannini played for the northern Italians for two seasons. In his last season in Bolzano, he even managed to get promoted to Serie B for the first time .

After this promotion, Attilio Giovannini left FC Bozen and joined the US Lucchese Libertas for the new season , where he played football for a year. In Lucca Giovannini also experienced his first season in Serie A , Italy's highest football league. With place fourteen the descent by two points against the US Salernitana was averted. Attilio Giovannini, however, knew how to convince at Lucchese Libertas and brought it to 36 of 40 possible league games in which he failed to score. In the summer of 1948, the 24-year-old defender was signed by Ambrosiana-Inter , where he would spend the next six years of his footballing career. Giovannini advanced relatively quickly to a regular player at Ambrosiana-Inter and had a total of 191 appearances in the league for his team in these six seasons. As in the rest of his career, he never got a hit. In his first year with the new employer, Attilio Giovannini was runner-up behind AC Turin in Serie A 1948/49 . In the three years that followed, however, they had to admit defeat to Juventus Turin and AC Milan . The 1952/53 Serie A then became the most successful season in Attilio Giovannini's career to date. With a lead of two points over defending champion Juventus Turin, the team of coach Alfredo Foni secured the Italian football championship, the first title win for Ambrosiana-Inter after the war. Attilio Giovannini was the captain of this Ambrosiana-Inter team. And also the following year - Giovannini still had the captain's armband with him - Inter managed to win the championship, this time with a lead of one point over Juventus. With this championship in his luggage, the now 30-year-old Attilio Giovannini said goodbye to Ambrosiana-Inter, which would soon take on the current name Inter Milan . He moved to Lazio Rome in the Italian capital, where he played against the ball for two more years. During this time Giovannini made 45 games in Serie A before he ended his football career in the summer of 1956 at the age of 32.

National team

Between 1949 and 1953 Attilio Giovannini made a total of thirteen international matches for the Italian national soccer team . He didn't get a hit. His national team career began on June 12, 1949, after the Superga plane crash , in which almost the entire AC Turin team and, due to the club's dominance in Italy, also a large part of the national team was killed. Giovannini was one of the players who rebuilt the Squadra Azzurra after the Superga disaster . He was appointed to the Italian squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil by national coach Ferruccio Novo . Giovannini was used in one game at the tournament. In the 2: 3 defeat of the defending champions in the first group match against Sweden , Giovannini defended for his home country, but had to watch the second group match against Paraguay from the bench. After these two games, the first World Cup after the Second World War ended after the preliminary round for the Italian team that started as one of the favorites, and for Attilio Giovannini the World Cup chapter ended again after just one match.

successes

1952/53 and 1953/54 with Ambrosiana-Inter

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personal data
SURNAME Giovannini, Attilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona , Italy