Giuseppe Meazza – Wikipedia

Giuseppe Meazza
Giuseppe Meazza 1935
Personnel
Birthday	23. August 1910
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
date of death	21. August 1979
Sterbeort	Rapallo, Italien
Size	169 cm
Position	Center forwarder
Juniors
Years	Station
1924–1927	Inter Milan
Men’s
Years	Station	Games (goals) first
1927–1940	Inter Milan	348 (247)
1940–1942	AC Milan	37 00 (9)
1942–1943	Juventus Turin	27 0 (ten)
1944	FC Varese	20 00 (7)
1945–1946	Atalanta Bergamo	14 00 (2)
1946–1947	Inter Milan	17 00 (2)
National team
Years	Selection	Games (goals)
1930–1939	Italy	53 0 (33)
Stations as a trainer
Years	Station
1945–1946	Atalanta Bergamo
1946–1948	Inter Milan
1948–1949	Beşiktaş Istanbul
1949–1951	Pro Patria Calcio
1952–1953	Italy
1955–1956	Inter Milan
1957	Inter Milan
first Only league games are given.

Giuseppe Meazza (Born August 23, 1910 in Milan, † August 21, 1979 in Rapallo) was an Italian football player and coach.

The striker is one of the most successful and popular players in Italian football history and became world champion with the national team twice in a row (1934 and 1938). The high priority of Meazza can be seen in the fact that the famous Milan San-Siro Stadium, home of Inter and AC Milan, was renamed Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium after his death in 1979.

With 284 goals, Meazza is a record scorer of his long -time club Inter Milan and is in fourth place in the eternal leaderboard of the scorers of Serie A with 216 goals next to José Altafini. In the jersey of the Nerazzurri he became an Italian champion three times and three times top scorer of the A.

From 1952 to 1953 he looked after the Italian national team.

The Meazzas family lived in simple conditions in the Porta Vittoria district of Milan. The boy had to Peppe Created a hard stroke of fate because his father fell on the battlefields of the First World War and from then on he had to be raised by his mother Ersilia alone. Although Giuseppe helped her at work on the fruit and vegetable market, the two always had to fight for the financial survival. He found consolation in football, which was soon to become his true calling. He hunted the balls for hours on the football sites and streets of his district.

At the age of twelve he closed that Gloria F.C. at. There he played for the first time on a regular playing field and even got a few soccer shoes. The talented Meazza soon completed a trial training session at AC Milan, but was rejected on the grounds that it was too thin. A little later, the boy was accidentally discovered by a Talenterucher Inter Milan while juggling a ball and added to the Nerazzurri junior department. Due to a change in diet, the youth coaches quickly equalized the physical deficits of Meazza. In addition, the former interior player Fulvio Bernardini took on the half-orphan and took care of him as a tutor.

In 1927 Meazza moved into the professional team squad and debut against the Italian championship on September 11th in the Italian championship Milanese sports union . In the 6-2 victory, the only 17-year-old junior striker scored two goals and the Gazzetta dello Sport praised the young player’s intelligent, fresh appearance. Inter-coach Árpád Weisz made him a regular player and took the established Leopoldo Conti out of the team, the Meazza a little pejorative Balilla missed. In his premiere season, he developed into a real goal machine and scored an incredible 38 goals in 29 games. In the game against AC Venice (May 12, 1929) he scored outstanding six hits (final score 10: 2).

For the 1929/30 season, the Italian championship was first held in a nationwide league system, the newly founded series A. The first champion became Ambrosiana interter and Meazza with 31 goals top scorer (Capocannoniere). Although he was still completely unknown to the broad audience at a time when communication technology was still in its infancy, Meazza didn’t even need a whole season to become a darling of the Tifosi all over Italy. As a brilliant ball technician fooled Balilla His opponents with dared tricks and fines to seek success over simple means, opposed him. However, after the first SCUDETTO, further titles failed to materialize, since Juventus Turin dominated the series A and Ambrosiana intert had to be satisfied with second place in the following years. It was only in the 1937/38 season that the Nerazzurri won the championship title and superstar Meazza became top scorer again with 20 goals. Following the 1938 World Cup, the star of Meazza began to decrease, as it could not play a game for almost a year and a half due to a lengthy blood vessel disease. In the 1939/40 master season, he did not play a single game.

After 13 years in the black and blue inter-jersey, Meazza announced his farewell on November 28, 1940 and switched to City Rives AC Milan. However, despite the great rivalry of both clubs, the Tifosi did not resent the change and this did not detract from his popularity. Before the game started of the Milan Derbys (February 9, 1941), Meazza is said to have cried in the cabin because he had to compete against his old club, but nevertheless achieved the equalizer to 2-2. However, the Second World War gradually hindered the regular game operations of series A and during the war championships from 1942 to 1946, Meazza wore the jerseys of Juventus Turin, AS Varese 1910 and Atalanta Bergamo.

In 1946 Inter Milan was on the ground and was in the relegation battle. Those responsible brought back the club icon and Meazza acted as a player coach in a double function. Although he was no longer the exceptional player of previous years, he was not trained and overweight, but through his presence he managed to preserve the team from relegation. Last season (1946/47) he played 17 games (two goals).

After impressive achievements at the beginning of his career, Meazza was quickly a candidate for the Italian national team. On February 9, 1930, the 19-year-old debut in the international match against Switzerland (4-2) in Rome and celebrated a debut with two goals. National coach Vittorio Pozzo was completely convinced of the skills of the Milan striker star and then made him a regular player.

In 1934 Italy was the country of the World Cup and the Blue Team was under enormous pressure because the fascist regime Benito Mussolinis expected nothing else than the World Cup title. Meazza was now 23 years old, was already an experienced player in the bloom of his career and with 20 international operations. National coach Pozzo was able to occupy almost all positions twice, which is why he pulled out Meazza from the storm center and started as a right half -striker. In the opening game against the United States, he scored the goal for the 7-1 final score, but he scored his most important goal in the controversial repetition game against Spain when he got the redeeming 1-0 winning goal. In the final against Czechoslovakia, Meazza injured herself after just a few minutes. Since there were no changes at this time, he had to bite and play through and the battered superstar finally gave the template for the all -important 2-1 for Italy by Angelo Schiavio. The players had the guidelines of theirs lead fulfilled and were celebrated frenetically all over the country.

Five months later, the newly baked world champion against England, who at the time refrained from participating in World Cup tournaments, tried to “officially” confirm his title. In the very hard and brutally guided game, which is Battle of Highbury entered the story, the English quickly led 3-0. But Meazza made one of the best games in his career and made the two connections to 3: 2 with a gala performance. The team and Meazza were then adopted by the English audience with an appreciative, roaring applause.

In addition to Giovanni Ferrari, Meazza was the only player from the 1934 team at the World Cup in France in France and led the National as a captain in the tournament. As a reigning Italian champion and top scorer, he went ahead with a broad chest and had set his goal defense. In 1938 Meazza played an extremely team -related role and was more template for center forward Silvio Piola than an executor himself. However, his only tournament gate was the extremely important 2-0 in the semi -finals against Brazil (2: 1). After sovereign performance, the Italians were again in the final, where Hungary was defeated 4-2 on June 19. Italy and Meazza were world champions for the second time.

He played his last international match on July 20, 1939 in Helsinki against Finland (3: 2). Meazza scored 33 goals in 53 games and so that he is still the second best scorer of the national team behind Luigi Riva.

Meazza was an outstanding football artist. It happened that he stormed almost over the entire field with the ball on the foot, past the opposing defenders, to stop his solo run just before the opposing goal and to lure the goalkeeper out of his box just to him To deceive with one last fin and “walk” with the ball into the goal ( Fake to the meazza ). With this almost provocative way of scoring goals, he polarized the fans of his team and that of the opponent. In addition to his skills as a scorer, Meazza was also an excellent playmaker who, in the course of a game, was repeatedly falling into midfield to create opportunities. The two -footed dribble artist was the first Italian footballer to achieve celebrity all over the world and for a long time represented the symbol of social success in Italy. In addition to his princely salary, which he moved into from Ambrosiana, he was one of the first advertising stars of Italian football and was able to come up with personal sponsors.

In addition to his football qualities, Meazza also knew how to draw attention to himself again and again in his private life. The Lebemann and Frauheld never neglected the sweeten Pages of existence as a football star. His numerous women’s acquaintances, as well as his passion for champagne, speak for this, gambling or expensive convertibles. His trademark became a white garden, which he wore behind the ear while dancing. In addition, he enjoyed some privileges and was the only international who was allowed to smoke under the eyes of the strict Vittorio Pozzo.

After his short player trainer at Inter, Meazza left his home country to work as one of the first Italians abroad. In 1948/49 he worked for Beşiktaş Istanbul in Turkey, but returned to Serie A after only one year and looked after the Pro Patria Calcio team.

For a year, Meazza even looked after the national team, which was in a phase of reconstruction after the tragic plane crash of Superga. He trained twice as interim coach Inter Milan before switching to the young area. Here he accepted Sandro Mazzola, who had lost his father Valentino when the aircraft crash from Superga and brought him up to the professional squad. Mazzola should later become a legend Inter Milan.

Giuseppe Meazza died two days before his 69th birthday in his holiday home in Rapallo and was grave on the Milan Cimitero of Monumental. ^[first]

In his death in 1979, the converted San-Siro Stadium was renamed his honor in Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium.

1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Giuseppe Meazza