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Chapters: Pietro Rava, Roberto Pruzzo, Giuseppe Marchioro, Karl Sturmer, Bert Flatley, Ferruccio Mazzola, Sergio Castelletti, Enzo Ferrari, Dino Ballacci, Giacomo Losi, Corrado Orrico, Giuliano Zoratti, Dino Pagliari, Enrico Nicolini, Francesco Buglio, Giulio Cappelli, Claudio Maselli, Luciano Foschi, Gian Piero Ghio, Otto Krappan, Giorgio Roselli, Mario Pietruzzi, Carlo Carcano, Ferenc Molnar, Sergio Manente, Camillo Achilli, Salvatore Jacolino, Giacomo Neri, Federico Allasio, Angelo Franzosi, Pasquale Parodi, Mario David, Giuseppe Sabadini, Mario Trebbi, Carlo Tagnin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pietro Rava (January 21, 1916 November 5, 2006) was an Italian football defender and coach. He won the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1938 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team. Rava, born in Cassine, Province of Alessandria, played for the clubs U.S. Alessandria (1928-35, 1946-47), Juventus F.C. (1935-46 and 1947-50) and Novara Calcio (1950-51). He won two Italian Cups in the 1937/38 and 1941/42 seasons, and two scudettos 1934/35 & 1949/50. He was Juventus' captain from 1947 to 1950. In total, he played in 352 Serie A matches (including 303 for Juventus), scoring 15 goals. For the Italian national team, he appeared in 30 international matches from 1936 to 1946, losing only one game, becoming the captain in 1940. He won the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics, and won the 1938 FIFA World Cup. He was selected to the "Best XI" of the 1938 World Cup. Along with Alfredo Foni, Sergio Bertoni, and Ugo Locatelli, Rava is one of only four Italian players ever to win both the Olympic tournament and the World Cup. As a coach, he managed the clubs Sampdoria, Palermo, Padova, Monza, Alessandria, Novara, Carrarese, and A.C. Cuneo. On November 5, 2006, Rava...http: //booksllc.net/?id=773927
