Giovanni Mauro (referee)

Giovanni Mauro (born July 21, 1888 in Domodossola ; died May 12, 1958 in Milan ) was an Italian football official and referee.

Life

Giovanni Mauro was a younger brother of the sports official Francesco Mauro . He played from 1904 to 1911 in the youth team in Milan shortly before separating into the clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan . He studied law at the University of Pavia and was among the founders of a forerunner of AC Pavia in 1907 . Mauro worked as a football referee until 1928 and was one of the founders of the Associazione Italiana Arbitri (AIA) in 1911 . From 1911 he was a full-time football official in Lombardy and subsequently helped shape the Italian league system . On June 7, 1925, he headed the national final of the Lega Nord Genoa against Bologna.

Mauro led a total of 23 international games, including the game between Switzerland and Germany in Basel in 1923. In 1920 he was used as a soccer referee at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp and directed the game Spain against Switzerland , in 1926 he was referee in Budapest at the international match between Hungary and Czechoslovakia . At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , he directed the game between Egypt and Portugal .

During the time of Italian fascism from 1922 onwards, he headed the referees' association until 1927. Mauro allegedly kept the association free from political influence. Mauro was President of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio from 1923 to 1924 and, after Italian fascism, from 1944 to 1946 .

The national referee award Premio Giovanni Mauro , which has been awarded since 1935, is named after him.

Web links

• Giovanni Mauro , at Treccani (it)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nick Pascale: Giovanni Mauro , short vita at World Referee, February 20, 2011 (en)
2. ↑ Palmares for Giovanni Mauro , at World Referee (en)