Giuseppe Casari

Giuseppe Casari
Personnel
birthday	April 10, 1922
place of birth	Martinengo ,  Italy
date of death	November 12, 2013
Place of death	Seriate ,  Italy
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Atalanta Bergamo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1944-1950	Atalanta Bergamo	170 (0)
1950-1953	AC Napoli	107 (0)
1953-1956	AC Padova	54 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1948-1951	Italy	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Giuseppe Casari (born April 10, 1922 in Martinengo , Bergamo province , Italy , † November 12, 2013 in Seriate ) was an Italian football player . Active at club level for Atalanta Bergamo , AC Napoli and AC Padova , he also took part in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Giuseppe Casari, born in 1922 in the northern Italian municipality of Martinengo , began playing football at the nearby Atalanta Bergamo club , where he first worked in the youth department and was finally appointed to the Atalanta professional team for the first time in 1944. At the time, Italy's football was on a war-related break and no official championship was taking place. Only after the end of the Second World War , the regular championships in Italy were resumed and Atalanta Bergamo immediately played in the first-class Serie A , where they could also be found in the following years. A highlight in these years is a fifth place, achieved in Serie A 1947/48 , which is the best placement of the club in the top Italian division to this day. Giuseppe Casari was the goalkeeper of Atalanta Bergamo in those years and made a total of 170 league games for this club. He stayed in Bergamo until 1950 before joining the southern Italian team from AC Napoli .

At Napoli Giuseppe Casari was a regular goalkeeper for three years from 1950 to 1953 and made 107 league appearances during this time. With AC Napoli, who only returned to Serie A in 1950, Casari achieved quite respectable placements in the upper midfield of the highest Italian league, especially a fourth place in the 1952/53 season stood out.

After that, the goalkeeper joined the club again and played from now for AC Padova and moved to the second-rate series B . After two years of second division football Casari succeeded with Padua 1955 promotion to Serie A. As a newcomer to the team of the later Star coach was Nereo Rocco eighth place confidently in the Italian Elite League hold, however, the association operated as well as Giuseppe Casari that season well also not entirely permitted means. Casari was involved in two minor manipulation scandals in the area of ​​AC Padova during that period, but was not prosecuted for it. He finally ended his career at the end of the 1955/56 season at the age of 34, after he had come to 54 games in his last station in Padua and had lost his regular place over time.

National team

Between 1948 and 1951, Giuseppe Casari made a total of six appearances in the Italian national football team . A goal he did not succeed here. From national coach Ferruccio Novo he was appointed to the Italian squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil , but was not used during the tournament. Rather, Casari was the third goalkeeper behind Lucidio Sentimenti from Lazio and Giuseppe Moro from AC Turin and so missed a mission. The Italian team, meanwhile, experienced a disappointing World Cup, which ended after the preliminary round after a loss to Sweden and a win against Paraguay .

Two years before the World Cup, Giuseppe Casari was also in the squad for the Summer Olympics in London and also acted as the goalkeeper. Italy lost to the Danish team 3: 5 in the quarter-finals .

Web links

• Giuseppe Casari in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player Profile (Italian)
• List of international matches (Italian)