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Giuseppe Meazza: A legend ahead of his time
Coming into the 2012/13 winter break, I thought I'd look at an Inter legend who is still considered one of the all-time greats of football -- Giuseppe Meazza, a striker so great that it was only fitting to name the San Siro Stadium after him.
His story begins a hundred years before Jose Mourinho led Inter to their historic Triplete, when he was born in Milano on August 23, 1910. The young 'Peppe' had a love for football even as a boy, although his mother preferred to have him helping her run the family fresh fruit market stall. This was a completely different age than today. Football wasn't considered a worthy career so his mother saw no benefit to him wasting his time with the sport; she even went as far as to take his shoes away from him to discourage the lad from playing.
Meazza had other ideas and learned to play in the streets, barefooted, and using a ball made of rags. As you will see later in this article, Meazza was never one to follow the rules. As a youngster, Meazza actually admired AC Milan, bu
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Giuseppe Meazza
Italian footballer (1910–1979)
This article is about the Italian footballer. For the stadium officially known as Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, see San Siro.
Giuseppe Meazza (Italian pronunciation:[dʒuˈzɛppemeˈattsa]; 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 rivalsJuventus 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. Widely regarded as one of the best players of the 20th century, and one of the greatest Italian strikers in the history of the sport.
Along with Giovanni Ferrari, Guido Masetti and Eraldo Monzeglio, he is one of only four Italian players to have won two World Cups.[2]&# Giuseppe Meazza was one of the legends of Italian football during their first great golden era in the 1930s. In Serie A he played a total of 463 games with the teams F.C. Internazionale (his main club), where he played 348 times, scoring 241 goals between 1927-40. He also played with the local rivals A.C. Milan, Juventus FC, Varese, Atalanta Bergamasca, and finally a return to Internazionale in his last season 1946-47. Domestically he won three titles with Internazionale (1930, 1938, 1940) and the Coppa Italia in 1939. Meazza is best known for his performances for the Italian national team, the Azzurri, with whom he won both the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups, captaining the side on the latter occasion. Meazza’s international career lasted from 1930 to 1939 and consisted of 53 matches in which he scored an Italian record of 33 goals, a record that lasted until 1973. His last playing seasons were as a player-manager, firstly with Atalanta and then at Inter. He went on to become a part of the national side’s coaching team and managed Pro Patria and the Turkish team Beşiktaş before
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