Osvaldo Fattori (; 22 June 1922 – 27 December 2017) was an Italian
association footballer who played as a
defender or
midfielder.
Club career
Fattori was born in
San Michele Extra
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...
,
Verona. After having been a player for Audace San Michele, which later gave rise to
Mariolino Corso, Fattori moved to
Vicenza, making his
Serie A debut as the club's starting
defensive midfielder. In
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
he went to
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, ...
, which acquired him (along with
Bassetto) for a record 10 million lira
after exhaustive bargaining with
Inter. He would get to Inter in the summer of 1947 after only 12 months with Sampdoria. With Inter, Fattori would stay for seven seasons winning two championships in
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
and
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
.
International career
At international level, Fattori earned four caps for the
national team, including the win against
Paraguay in the
1950 World Cup
The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950. The planned 1942 and 1946 World Cups were ...
.
See also
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Progression of the most expensive transfer in Serie A
References
External links
Trenta uomini in barca. I mondiali di calcio Brasile 1950
1922 births
2017 deaths
Italian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
LR Vicenza players
UC Sampdoria players
Inter Milan players
Brescia Calcio players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Italy men's international footballers
1950 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football defenders
Italy men's B international footballers
Footballers from Verona
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