Mario Pizziolo

Italian footballer and manager
Mario Pizziolo
Personal information
Full name Mario Pizziolo
Date of birth (1909-12-08)8 December 1909[a]
Place of birth Castellammare Adriatico, Italy
Date of death 30 April 1990(1990-04-30) (aged 80)
Place of death Florence, Italy
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Livorno
Ternana
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925–1929 Pistoiese 74 (0)
1929–1936 Fiorentina 197 (3)
Total 271 (3)
International career
1933–1934 Italy 12 (1)
Managerial career
1939–1941 Pescara
1941–1942 Richard Ginori
1947–1949 Pescara
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Pizziolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmaːrjo pitˈtsjɔːlo]; 8 December 1909[a] – 30 April 1990) was an Italian football player and manager, who played as a central or defensive midfielder.

Club career

Pizziolo was born in Castellammare Adriatico, province of Pescara.[2][3] He started his club career in the youth teams of Livorno and Ternana,[2] and later played for the Pistoiese senior side (1925–1929),[2] before joining the senior team of Fiorentina, where he played between 1929 and 1936, playing 203 matches and scoring three goals in all competitions.[1]

He retired at 27.[1]

International career

Pizziolo played twelve matches for Italy between 1933 and 1934, scoring one goal.[4] He was part of the gold-winning 1933–35 Central European International Cup squad,[4] and of the side that won the 1934 FIFA World Cup on home soil, in which he played one game, the first leg of the quarter-finals against Spain, in which he got seriously injured, breaking one of his legs, in a 1–1 draw after extra-time.[5] He would not play for Italy again.[6] As Pizziolo could not play any of the other games or the final match for Italy, he was not awarded a medal for his performance until 1988, two years before he died, in Florence, at the age of 80.[7]

Honours

Player

Club

Fiorentina

International

Italy

Manager

Pescara

Individual

Notes

  1. ^ a b There is some discordance related to Pizziolo's precise date of birth, with some sources reporting the 7th of December[1] and others the 8th of December.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Prizio, Stefano; Signoria, Leonardo (2016). La Fiorentina dalla A alla Z (in Italian). Newton Compton Editori. ISBN 978-8854195448.
  2. ^ a b c d "Mario Pizziolo" (PDF). Regione Abruzzo (in Italian). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b Marchetti, Dario. "Pizziolo Mario". Enciclopediadelcalcio.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Convocazioni e presenze in campo: Mario Pizziolo". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (in Italian). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  5. ^ Fossati, Mario (17 June 1994). "Pane, regime e gol". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. ^ Baker 1988:248
  7. ^ "Addio Pizziolo, campione vero". la Repubblica (in Italian). 1 May 1990. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  8. ^ "La prima edizione della Hall of Fame Viola". Nove da Firenze (in Italian). 28 September 2012. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

Bibliography

  • Baker, William Joseph (1988), Sports in the Western World, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-06042-7

External links

  • (in Italian) Mario Pizziolo at FIGC.it
  • (in Italian) Mario Pizziolo at Enciclopediadelcalcio.it
  • Mario Pizziolo at FootballDatabase.eu
  • Mario Pizziolo at WorldFootball.net
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