Virginio Rosetta

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Virginio Rosetta
Virginio Rosetta 1932.jpg
Virginio Rosetta 1932
Personnel
birthday February 25, 1902
place of birth Vercelli ,  Italy
date of death March 31, 1975
Place of death Turin ,  Italy
size 172 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1918-1920 SG Pro Vercelli
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1919-1923 SG Pro Vercelli 85 (11)
1923-1936 Juventus Turin 338 (15)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1920-1934 Italy 52 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1935-1938 Juventus Turin
1939-1940 Lucchese
1947-1948 US Palermo
1 Only league games are given.

Virginio "Viri" Rosetta (born February 25, 1902 in Vercelli , † March 31, 1975 in Turin ) was an Italian football player and coach .

He is still considered to be one of the best Italian right-backs in history.

Player career

Together with Gianpiero Combi (center) and Umberto Caligaris (right), Rosetta (left) formed the trio dei ragionieri at Juventus and in the national team .

In the club

Virginio Rosetta began his career at the age of 17 with his hometown club, SG Pro Vercelli . He made his debut, then still as a striker , in this team in the 1919/20 season , the first season after the First World War . However, Rosetta was soon retrained as a defender due to his excellent technical skills and excellent passing game. His ability to open the game on the defensive was considered unique in his time. In the season 1920/21 Rosetta won his first Italian championship under Guido Ara with the SG Pro Vercelli , in the following season he was able to repeat this success.

For the 1923/24 season Viri Rosetta moved to Juventus Turin . The Turin then paid a transfer fee of 50,000 Italian lire for him, which made him the first professionally transferred player in Italy. Rosetta was also rewarded, making it the first professional footballer in Italy. At Pro Vercelli, he still played completely without pay, because the then president saw it as an honor to be able to play for the club.

With Juve , Rosetta won its third Scudetto in the 1925/26 season and was later the top performer of the legendary Juventus team of the Quinquennio d'Oro , which, under coach Carlo Carcano , won five championships in a row between 1931 and 1935, thus setting a record that was the first after 82 years in the 2016/17 season was again broken by Juventus Turin. In 1936, at the age of 34, Virginio Rosetta retired from football after 13 years and 365 appearances as a Juventus regular. In his career he was able to win a total of eight Italian championship titles.

In the national team

Virginio Rosetta made his debut on August 31, 1920, at the age of just 18, in the game against Norway at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp in the national team . After moving to Juventus Turin he finally became a regular player in the Squadra Azzurra and was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in 1928 and of the victorious squad in the European Cup for national soccer teams from 1927 to 1930 .

At the 1934 World Cup in his own country, at which he was world champion with Italy under Vittorio Pozzo , Rosetta completed his last of a total of 52 international matches for Italy in the round of 16 against the USA .

Coaching career

During the 1935/36 season Rosetta was player-coach at Juventus Turin. In the 1937/38 season the Coppa Italia could win with this team . He later worked as a trainer at Lucchese and the US Palermo .

successes

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personal data
SURNAME Rosetta, Virginio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosetta, Viri (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vercelli
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1975
Place of death Turin