Mario Bergamaschi (; 7 January 1929 – 18 January 2020) was an Italian footballer 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 ...

. At club level, he played for 14 seasons (392 games, 7 goals) in

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 Coppa ...

for

Calcio Como Como 1907, commonly referred to as Como, is an Italian football club based in Como, Lombardy, Italy. The club currently plays in Serie B, the second tier of Italian football, following promotion from the 2020–21 Serie C season. The club was fo ...

A.C. Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...

and

U.C. Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...

. At international level, he made his debut for the

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on 5 December 1954 in a game against

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. He stated that during the championship 1957 season he used to take doping that the players called "centimeter", from the markings on the syringe. At the time of his death, he was the last living person to have appeared for Milan in the

1958 European Cup Final The 1958 European Cup Final was a football match which took place at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium on 28 May 1958. It was contested by Real Madrid of Spain and Milan of Italy. Real Madrid won 3–2 after extra time to claim their third Euro ...

, as well as one of two living people born in the 1920s to have played for Milan, with the other being

Lorenzo Buffon Lorenzo Buffon (, ; born 19 December 1929) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Throughout his career, he played 277 times for Italian club A.C. Milan, and also later played for their city rivals Inter Milan, as well as ...

Honours

;Milan *

champion: 1954–55, 1956–57. *

Latin Cup The Latin Cup was an international football tournament for club sides from the Southwest European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In 1949 the football federations came together and requested FIFA to launch the competition. Europ ...

winner: 1956.

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1929 births 2020 deaths Italian men's footballers Italy men's international footballers Serie A players Como 1907 players AC Milan players UC Sampdoria players Men's association football midfielders Sportspeople from Crema, Lombardy Footballers from Lombardy {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1920s-stub