Egisto Pandolfini (; 17 February 1926 – 29 January 2019) was an Italian
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...
who played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Pandolfini was born in
Lastra a Signa
Lastra a Signa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the metropolitan city of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about west of Florence.
Main sights
*Hospital of Sant'Antonio (1411)
*"Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi ( , , also kn ...
. He played for 12 seasons (316 games, 75 goals) in the
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
for
ACF Fiorentina,
A.S. Roma
' (''Rome Sport Association''), commonly referred to as Roma (), is a professional football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier of Italian football for all of its existence, except for ...
,
F.C. Internazionale Milano and
SPAL 1907
Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor, commonly known as S.P.A.L. (), is a professional football club based in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The team plays in Serie B, the second tier of the Italian football league system.
Founded in 1907, sinc ...
.
International career
Pandolfini obtained 21 caps and scored 9 goals for the
Italian national team
The Italy national football team ( it, Nazionale di calcio dell'Italia) has represented Italy in international football since its first match in 1910. The national team is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the governing bo ...
, appearing in both the
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...
and
1954 FIFA World Cups, as well as the
1948 and
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
editions of the Summer Olympic Games Football Tournament. He died on 29 January 2019, aged 92.
References
External links
Profile by RSSSF*
*
1926 births
2019 deaths
People from Lastra a Signa
Italian footballers
Italy international footballers
1950 FIFA World Cup players
1954 FIFA World Cup players
Olympic footballers of Italy
Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Serie A players
Serie B players
ACF Fiorentina players
Empoli F.C. players
S.P.A.L. players
A.S. Roma players
Inter Milan players
Association football midfielders
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Florence
Footballers from Tuscany
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