Silvio Piola
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Date of birth | 29 September 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Robbio, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 4 October 1996 | (aged 83)||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Gattinara, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1925–1928 | Veloces 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1928–1929 |
Pro Vercelli | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1929–1934 |
Pro Vercelli | 127 | (51) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1934–1943 |
Lazio | 227 | (143) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1943–1944 |
Torino | 23 | (27) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1945–1947 | Juventus | 57 | (26) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1947–1954 |
Novara | 185 | (86) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 619 | (333) | |||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1933–1935 | Italy B | 6 | (11) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1935–1952 | Italy | 34 | (30) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1953–1954 | Italy (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1954–1956 | Cagliari | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1957 | Cagliari | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Silvio Piola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilvjo ˈpjɔːla]; 29 September 1913 – 4 October 1996) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He is known as a highly prominent figure in the history of Italian football due to several records he set, and he is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of his generation, as well as one of the best Italian players of all time. Piola was part of the squad that won the 1933–35 Central European International Cup & the squad that won the 1938 FIFA World Cup with Italy, scoring two goals in the final, ending the tournament as the second-best player and the second highest scorer.[2]
Piola is third in the
After his death, a pair of Italian stadiums were renamed after him: one in Novara in 1997 and another in Vercelli in 1998. In 2011, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.
Club career
Piola began his career with Italian club side
In 1934, he moved to
During his final years with Novara, Piola became the oldest player in Serie A history to score two goals in a single league match, a feat which he managed on 1 February 1953, at the age of 39 years, 4 months and 2 days, against his former team Lazio; the record stood until 20 April 2016, when Francesco Totti scored a Serie A brace at the age of 39 years, 6 months and 23 days.[13][14]
In his last season in 1953–54, Piola turned 40 years old on 29 September 1953, and then he scored one goal in three consecutive matches in November and December against
International career
His first game for Italy came against Austria on 24 March 1935, when he also scored his first goals for the team in the form of a brace to help Italy defeat the hosts Austria 2–0 in the 1933–35 Central European International Cup.[17] He was a World Cup winner in 1938, when he scored two of Italy's goals in the 4–2 victory over Hungary;[17] he finished the tournament as the second highest scorer and was named the second-best player, also earning a place in the Team of the Tournament.
Piola went on to play 34 games for Italy and score 30 goals between 1935 and 1952, a tally that would surely have been greater if not for the interruption caused by
Death
Piola died in Gattinara on 4 October 1996, aged 83.[citation needed]
Style of play
Regarded as one of the greatest
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | Coppa Italia | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Pro Vercelli
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1929–30
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Serie A | 4 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
1930–31
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32 | 13 | — | 32 | 13 | |||
1931–32
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31 | 12 | — | 31 | 12 | |||
1932–33
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32 | 11 | — | 32 | 11 | |||
1933–34
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28 | 15 | — | 28 | 15 | |||
Total | 127 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 51 | ||
Lazio
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1934–35
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Serie A | 29 | 21 | — | 29 | 21 | |
1935–36
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27 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 22 | ||
1936–37
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28 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 21 | ||
1937–38
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28 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15 | ||
1938–39
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21 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 8 | ||
1939–40
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23 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 10 | ||
1940–41
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25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 10 | ||
1941–42
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24 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 21 | ||
1942–43
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22 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 21 | ||
Total | 227 | 143 | 10 | 6 | 237 | 149 | ||
Torino
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1944
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CAI | 23 | 27 | — | 23 | 27 | |
Juventus | 1945–46
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Serie A-B
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29 | 16 | — | 29 | 16 | |
1946–47
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Serie A | 28 | 10 | — | 28 | 10 | ||
Total | 57 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 26 | ||
Novara
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1947–48
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Serie B | 30 | 16 | — | 30 | 16 | |
1948–49
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Serie A | 36 | 15 | — | 36 | 15 | ||
1949–50
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17 | 4 | — | 17 | 4 | |||
1950–51
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37 | 19 | — | 37 | 19 | |||
1951–52
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31 | 18 | — | 31 | 18 | |||
1952–53
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25 | 9 | — | 25 | 9 | |||
1953–54
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9 | 5 | — | 9 | 5 | |||
Total | 185 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 185 | 86 | ||
Career total | 619 | 333 | 10 | 6 | 629 | 339 |
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Italy | 1935 | 2 | 2 |
1936 | 5 | 2 | |
1937 | 5 | 5 | |
1938 | 7 | 9 | |
1939 | 6 | 8 | |
1940 | 4 | 1 | |
1941 | – | – | |
1942 | 1 | 1 | |
1943 | – | – | |
1944 | – | – | |
1945 | 1 | 1 | |
1946 | 1 | 1 | |
1947 | 1 | 0 | |
1948 | – | – | |
1949 | – | – | |
1950 | – | – | |
1951 | – | – | |
1952 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 34 | 30 |
Honours
Lazio[30]
- Serie A: runner-up 1936–37
- Mitropa Cup: runner-up 1937
Juventus[30]
- 1945–46, 1946–47
Novara[30]
Individual
- Serie A top goalscorer: 1936–37, 1942–43[31]
- Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011 (posthumously)[32]
- Inducted into the Walk of Fame of Italian sport: 2015[33][34]
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External links
- Silvio Piola at FIFA (archived)
- Silvio Piola at EU-Football.info
- Silvio Piola at FBref.com
- Silvio Piola at L'Équipe (in French)
- Silvio Piola at National-Football-Teams.com
- Silvio Piola at WorldFootball.net