SOCCER PLAYER

Giuseppe Meazza

1910 - 1979

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Giuseppe Meazza (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe meˈattsa]; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) 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. At the international level, he led Italy to win two consecutive World Cups: in 1934 on home soil, and in 1938 as captain, being named to the All-star Team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Meazza has received more than 1,082,583 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Giuseppe Meazza is the 18th most popular soccer player (down from 12th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Italy (up from 288th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. He is most famous for being the first player to score more than 300 goals in Italy's top division.

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  • 62

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 18 out of 21,273. Before him are Mário Zagallo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Zico, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, and Bobby Charlton. After him are Michel Platini, George Best, Jairzinho, Koji Tanaka, Josef Bican, and Lionel Messi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 4. Before him are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, and Jacques Cousteau. After him are Ingrid of Sweden, Robert K. Merton, Irena Sendler, Gloria Stuart, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1979, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 4. Before him are Josef Mengele, Park Chung-hee, and John Wayne. After him are Talcott Parsons, Herbert Marcuse, Nino Rota, Jean Renoir, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, and Mika Waltari.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 264 out of 5,161. Before him are Marie de' Medici (1575), Lucius Verus (130), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Pope Lucius II (1100), Pope Adeodatus I (570), and Pope Celestine V (1215). After him are Pope John XVIII (970), Pope Marcellus I (255), Benvenuto Cellini (1500), Umberto II of Italy (1904), Pope Honorius II (1100), and Pertinax (126).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 1. After him are Cesare Maldini (1932), Roberto Baggio (1967), Paolo Maldini (1968), Paolo Rossi (1956), Roberto Mancini (1964), Luigi Riva (1944), Franco Baresi (1960), Gianni Rivera (1943), Silvio Piola (1913), Francesco Totti (1976), and Gianluigi Buffon (1978).

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