Gino Cappello

Gino Cappello
Gino Cappello in the FC Bologna jersey in the early 1950s
Personnel
birthday	June 2, 1920
place of birth	Padua ,  Italy
date of death	March 28, 1990
Place of death	Bologna ,  Italy
size	184 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	AC Padova
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1940	AC Padova	60 (39)
1940-1943	AC Milan	74 (29)
1944	AC Padova	10 0(6)
1945-1956	Bologna FC	245 (80)
1956-1958	AS Novara	22 0(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1949-1954	Italy	11 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Gino Cappello (born June 2, 1920 in Padua , † March 28, 1990 in Bologna ) was an Italian football player . At club level, mainly active for FC Bologna , he took part in the football world championships in 1950 and 1954 with the national team of his home country.

Career

Club career

Gino Cappello was born on June 2, 1920 in Padua , northern Italy , and began playing football for the local club AC Padua . After attending the youth department, the young striker made his debut in 1938 under coach Wilma Wilhelm in the first team of the club, in the second-rate time series B played. Gino Cappello then played for his home club until 1940 and made sixty league games during this time, in which he scored 39 goals.

Cappello then played for AC Milan in Serie A from 1940 to 1943 . For Milan , Gino Cappello made a total of 74 league games with 39 goals. In Serie A 1940/41 they finished third, a year later tenth and in Cappellos last year at AC Milan seventh. After the 1942/43 season , gaming in Italy was interrupted due to the Second World War and only continued after the war ended in 1945. During the chaos of war, Gino Cappello returned briefly to AC Padua in 1944 and played the unofficial championship in 1944 with the club.

After the war, Gino Cappello joined FC Bologna , where he spent his longest time as a football player. The striker played for Bologna from 1945 to 1956 and made a total of 245 league games during this time, in which he hit the opposing goal 80 times. However, Cappello was denied a title win with FC Bologna during this time, although most of the time they played in the upper realms of Serie A. In the 1954/55 season they reached fourth place, the best table position in this phase. Even if Gino Cappello was never able to seriously intervene in the fight for the title with FC Bologna, this team nevertheless laid the foundation for the club's successful period in the early 1960s, when Bologna was able to celebrate the only post-war championship.

In the summer of 1956, the now 36-year-old Gino Cappello left FC Bologna after eleven years and went to Novara Calcio , which had just been relegated from Serie A. Cappello played for Novara for two more years and made a total of 22 league games with four goals. After relegation from Serie A, Novara Calcio missed direct re-promotion with Gino Cappello in the first year, only reaching sixth place. In the following year, this project failed even more clearly with eleventh place. In the summer of 1958, Gino Cappello ended his playing career at the age of 38 wearing Novara Calcio's jersey.

National team

Gino Cappello's time on the national team began half a month after the Superga plane crash that had cost the lives of many previous national players. Cappello made his debut on May 22, 1949 in the first game after the plane crash in Florence in a 3-1 win over Austria . A year later he was appointed by national coach Ferruccio Novo to the Italian squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . At the tournament, Cappello was used in both tournament games of the Italian team, but scored no goal. After the first group game was lost 3-2 to Sweden , the 2-0 win against Paraguay was n't enough to advance. As the reigning world champion, Italy was eliminated after the preliminary round.

Four years later, at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland , the 34-year-old Gino Cappello was again part of the Italian squad . Coach Lajos Czeizler used the veteran once during the tournament. Cappello played the second group game against Belgium , which ended in a 4-1 win for the Italians. Nevertheless, like four years before, they had to travel home after the preliminary round, as the playoff for second place in the group against hosts Switzerland was lost 4-1. After the 1954 world tournament, Gino Cappello's playing career also ended.

Web links

Commons : Gino Cappello  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gino Cappello in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player's statistics (Italian)
• List of international matches (Italian)