Silvio Piola
Italian footballer and manager (1913-1996) · Italy · Footballers · Died at 83
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Something wrong?The only player to retire as the all-time top scorer for three different Serie A clubs. Piola's 290 first-division goals - a record that still stands - came across two decades when defending was a religion and pitches were mud.
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Italy v Czechoslovakia (Genoa, 1936)
Silvio Piola - 1937 - SS Lazio
1939-40 Società Sportiva Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio 1940-1941
1943-1944 Torino FIAT
1946-47 Juventus FC - Čestmír Vycpálek and Silvio Piola
Finale de la Coupe du monde de football 1938 à Colombes, but de Piola à la 16e minuteTeams 6
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About this person
Born in 1913, Piola turned professional as a striker in an era when Italian football was still finding its shape. He broke through at Pro Vercelli, then moved to Lazio, racking up goals with a consistency that defied the war-interrupted seasons and the brutal marking of the time. In 1938 he scored twice in the World Cup final as Italy took the trophy, finishing the tournament as second-top scorer. He kept playing into the postwar years, adding a stint at Novara and pushing his Serie A tally to 274 goals - a mark no one has touched since. When he retired he'd scored 364 in official competitions, 682 if you count everything. He died in 1996; within two years, stadiums in Novara and Vercelli both carried his name.
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