Giuseppe Moro

Giuseppe Moro
Personal information
Full name Giuseppe Moro
Date of birth (1921-01-16)16 January 1921
Place of birth Carbonera, Italy
Date of death 28 January 1974(1974-01-28) (aged 53)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1937–1942 Treviso 68 (0)
1942–1943 Alessandria 12 (0)
1944–1947 Treviso 11 (0)
1947–1948 Fiorentina 38 (0)
1948–1949 Bari 36 (0)
1949–1950 Torino 32 (0)
1950–1951 Lucchese 38 (0)
1951–1953 Sampdoria 72 (0)
1953–1955 Roma 55 (0)
1955–1956 Verona 15 (0)
National team
1949–1953 Italy 9 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Giuseppe Moro (16 January 1921 – 28 January 1974) was an Italian football (soccer) player, who played as a goalkeeper.

Career

Club

In eight season in Serie A, Giuseppe Moro defended the goal of six different teams (Fiorentina, Bari, Torino, Lucchese, Sampdoria and Roma). An eccentric and athletic keeper, he is regarded as one of Italy's greatest goalkeepers. One of his notable saves was from a shot by Mortensen in a classic England-Italy match played in London in 1949; in that game he produced miracles for 75 minutes before giving up goals to Rowley and Wright which did not diminish his stellar performance.[1] To this day, he is the goalkeeper who has saved the most penalties in Serie A history; he managed to save 16 penalties from 44 attempts, between 1947 and 1955 (with an overall average of 1 in 3 penalties stopped).[1]

International

Moro made his debut with the Italian national team in Budapest, in 1949, and he also appeared with Italy in the 1950 World Cup, in a win against Paraguay, coming on as a substitute for Sentimenti.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Giuseppe Moro". Retrieved 4 January 2015.


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