Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mario Pizziolo | ||
Date of birth | [a] | 8 December 1909||
Place of birth | Castellammare Adriatico, Italy | ||
Date of death | 30 April 1990 | (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.
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]
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]