Mario Pizziolo

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Mario Pizziolo
Personnel
birthday December 7, 1909
place of birth Castellammare di Stabia ,  Italy
date of death April 30, 1990
Place of death Florence ,  Italy
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
AS Livorno
until 1924 Ternana Calcio
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1924-1929 AC Pistoiese 74 (0)
1929-1936 AC Florence 197 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1933-1936 Italy 12 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Pescara Calcio
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Pizziolo (born December 7, 1909 in Castellammare di Stabia ( NA ), Italy , † April 30, 1990 in Florence , Italy) was an Italian football player .

Pizziolo is considered one of the best midfielders of his generation. With Italy he became world champion in his own country in 1934 .

Career

Mario Pizziolo played as a defensive and right midfielder , he began his career in the youth departments of AS Livorno and Ternana Calcio , in 1924 he moved to AC Pistoiese . In 1929 Pizziolo was sold to Fiorentina , which was still playing in Serie B at the time. He spent most of his career in Florence and rose to Serie A with the team for the 1931/32 season . In 1936, at the age of only 27, Pizziolo ended his active career due to numerous injuries. He then coached the Pescara Calcio team several times for a short time .

In the national team , Pizziolo made his debut on January 1, 1933 in a 3-1 win against Germany , until 1936 he was part of the regular staff of the Squadra Azzurra , which won the European Cup for national soccer teams from 1933 to 1935 , and was one of the favorite players of national coach Vittorio Pozzo . Even at the 1934 World Cup in his own country, Pizziolo was in the Italian squad .

World Championship 1934

Mario Pizziolo went into the tournament as a regular player. In the second encounter, the first quarter-final game against Spain in Florence , he tore a ligament in his left knee and was out for the rest of the championship. Attilio Ferraris took his place in the team . Since the then Italian fascist regime only awarded the medal of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio to the players who had participated in the final against Czechoslovakia , Pizziolo was not officially honored, against which coach Pozzo and his teammates protested violently. Only 54 years later, in 1988, was Mario Pizziolo honored with the official medal by the FIGC, at which point he was, along with Angelo Schiavio , the last survivor of the 1934 world championship team.

Mario Pizziolo died on April 30, 1990 after a long illness in Florence.

successes

Remarks

  1. ↑ some sources also speak of December 8, 1909
  2. ↑ Some sources also give Castellammare Adriatico on

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personal data
SURNAME Pizziolo, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Castellammare di Stabia
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1990
Place of death Florence