Name Mario Pizziolo | Role Football player | |
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Mario Pizziolo (7 December 1909 – 30 April 1990) was an Italian football player and manager, who played as a central or defensive midfielder.
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Club career
Pizziolo was born in Castellammare Adriatico, province of Pescara. He started his club career in the youth teams of Livorno and Ternana, and later played for the Pistoiese senior side (1925–1929), before joining the senior team of Fiorentina, where he played between 1929 and 1936, playing 197 matches and scoring three goals.
International career
Pizziolo played twelve matches for Italy between 1933 and 1934, scoring one goal. He was a part of the side that won the 1934 FIFA World Cup on home soil, in which he played one game, the first against Spain, in which he was roughly hit (he had one of his legs broken). 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 eighty.