Mario Pizziolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmaːrjo pitˈtsjɔːlo]; 8 December 1909[lower-alpha 1] – 30 April 1990) was an Italian football player and manager, who played as a central or defensive midfielder.
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Full name | Mario Pizziolo | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1909-12-08)8 December 1909[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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) | |||||||||||||||||
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1933–1934 | Italy | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||
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1939–1941 | Pescara | ||||||||||||||||||
1941–1942 | Richard Ginori | ||||||||||||||||||
1947–1949 | Pescara | ||||||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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]
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