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

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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

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, 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.

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* * 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 {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1920s-stub