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Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and winning three Serie A titles, as well as the Coppa Italia; he later also played for two seasons for local rivals Milan, as well as Turin rivals Juventus for one season, in addition to his spells with Varese and Atalanta.…
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sports · Italian footballer (1910–1979) · association football player · association football coach · also Giuseppe Meazza, Meazza
Born 23 August 1910 · Died 21 August 1979 · Q192131
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I also saw Pelé playing. He did not achieve Meazza's elegant style of playing. One day, at the Arena, I witnessed him doing something astonishing: he stopped the ball with a bicycle kick, elevating himself two meters from the ground. Then he landed with the ball glued at his foot, dribbled over an astonished defender, and then went on scoring a goal with one of his hallmark shots, sardonic and accurate to the millimeter.
There is nothing worse than having a penalty kick saved by a keeper who didn
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“I also saw Pelé playing. He did not achieve Meazza's elegant style of playing. One day, at the Arena, I witnessed him doing something astonishing: he stopped the ball with a bicycle kick, elevating himself two meters from the ground. Then he landed with the ball glued at his foot, dribbled over an astonished defender, and then went on scoring a goal with one of his hallmark shots, sardonic and accurate to the millimeter.”
“There is nothing worse than having a penalty kick saved by a keeper who didn”
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Bluewin: Green light for the sale of the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Yahoo! Sports: Greatest Inter Milan Legends – From Giuseppe Meazza To Javier Zanetti
Won award: Inter Milan Hall of Fame (2019).
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Won award: Inducted into the Walk of Fame of Italian sport (2015).
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ESPN: All-time Top 20: No. 19 Giuseppe Meazza
Was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame
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Sydney Morning Herald: Giuseppe Meazza: Italy's greatest ever?
Won award: International Football Hall of Champions (2001).
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Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame (posthumous honour, 2011)
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Died 1979-08-21.
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Brera also added: "The world was full of great football players, maybe some even tougher and more consistent than him, but to us it seemed that one could not go beyond his sudden inventions, his ingenious runs, his perem
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And won every major trophy possible with the club, also considered Meazza to be the best player of all time, and said of him: "Meazza was great, unbeatable, even if he would occasionally run into a frightful crisis, caus
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Runner-up: Istanbul Football League with Beşiktaş (1948–49).
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Was recalled to Inter as a player-coach
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Played for Inter Milan (1946–1947) — 17 appearances, 2 goals.
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Played for Atalanta BC (1945–1946) — 14 appearances, 2 goals.
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Played for Varese Calcio (1944–1944) — 20 appearances, 7 goals.
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Played for Juventus FC (1942–1943) — 27 appearances, 10 goals.
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Won: Serie A with Inter Milan (1939–40).
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Played for AC Milan (1940–1942) — 37 appearances, 9 goals.
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Won: Coppa Italia with Inter Milan (1938–39).
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Won: FIFA World Cup with Italy (1938).
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Won: Serie A with Inter Milan (1937–38).
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Won award: Serie A top goalscorer (1937–38).
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Won award: FIFA World Cup All-Star Team (1938).
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Meazza, along with Giovanni Ferrari and Eraldo Monzeglio, also set a record for being one of the only three Italian players to win two World Cups
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Won award: Mitropa Cup top goalscorer (1936).
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Won award: Serie A top goalscorer (1935–36).
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Won: Central European International Cup with Italy (1933–35).
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Claimed the Central European International Cup again
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Won award: FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (1934).
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Won: FIFA World Cup with Italy (1934).
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On home soil, and in 1938 as captain, being named to the All-star Team
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Won award: Mitropa Cup top goalscorer (1933).
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Showed his versatility during a 3–1 victory over Germany in Bologna, when he was moved to an inside-right position by the Italian coach Vittorio Pozzo, to accommodate teammate Angelo Schiavio, a switch that would help
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Runner-up: Central European International Cup with Italy (1931).
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Won: Serie A with Inter Milan (1929–30).
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Won award: Serie A top goalscorer (1929–30).
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Won: Central European International Cup with Italy (1927–30).
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Won award: Mitropa Cup top goalscorer (1930).
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Played for Italy men's national association football team (1930–1939) — 53 appearances, 33 goals.
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1938 and 1940, and helped win the team's first Coppa Italia in 1939
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Played for Inter Milan (1927–1940) — 348 appearances, 241 goals.
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By his older teammate Leopoldo Conti, who thought "Peppìn", in Milanese dialect, who was only 17 when he joined the senior team, was too young to be associated to the senior team
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Hence why Conti felt it to be a suitable nickname for the young rookie
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During the fighting of World War I at the age of seven, Peppe grew up in Milan with his mother, Ersilia who came from Mediglia, helping her sell fruit at the market
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Born 1910-08-23.
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