| Bruno Gerzeli | |
| Fullname: | Bruno Livio Gerzeli |
| Birth Date: | 3 October 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Monfalcone, Italy |
| Death Place: | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Position: | Striker |
| Years1: | 1942–1943 |
| Years2: | 1945–1946 |
| Years3: | 1946–1947 |
| Years4: | 1947–1948 |
| Years5: | 1948–1949 |
| Years6: | 1949–1950 |
| Years7: | 1950–1951 |
| Years8: | 1951–1952 |
| Years9: | 1952 |
| Years10: | 1954–1955 |
| Years11: | 1954–1955 |
| Years12: | 1956–1958 |
| Years13: | 1963 |
| Clubs1: | C.R.D.A Monfalcone |
| Clubs2: | Monfalconese C.N.T. |
| Clubs4: | Marzotto Valdagno |
| Clubs5: | Salernitana |
| Clubs6: | Stabia |
| Clubs7: | Biellese |
| Clubs8: | Anconitana |
| Clubs9: | Deportivo Samarios |
| Clubs10: | Aosta |
| Clubs13: | K.F.C. Estonia |
| Caps3: | 1 |
| Caps5: | 9 |
| Caps7: | 31 |
| Caps8: | 31 |
| Caps9: | 20 |
| Caps10: | 18 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Goals5: | 2 |
| Goals7: | 3 |
| Goals8: | 4 |
| Goals9: | 5 |
| Goals10: | 0 |
| Manageryears1: | 1963 |
| Managerclubs1: | K.F.C. Estonia |
Bruno Gerzeli (October 3, 1925 – November 8, 1982) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a forward.
Born in Monfalcone, Gerzeli, a winger, inside forward[1] and centre-forward,[2] started his career in the Serie C side C.R.D.A. Monfalcone, which was the team of his hometown Monfalcone. After World War II, Gerzeli played the 1945-46 Serie C season for Monfalconese (which was the new name of C.R.D.A. Monfalcone); he was then signed by Venezia, a team which was competing in the Serie A. Gerzeli only played one match during the 1946–47 Serie A season, on July 6, 1947, against Triestina. After this one-match experience, he left Venezia and moved to Marzotto Valdagno, coming back to Serie C. He played a Serie B championship in 1948–1949 with Salernitana. In 1952 he decided to leave Italy for Colombia, a nation in which professional football was well-paid because of the so-called El Dorado period. He played for Deportivo Samarios in Colombia along with two other Italian footballers, Corrado Contin and Alessandro Adam.[3] He collected 20 appearances with Samarios, scoring five goals (the first of which was scored against Atlético Nacional on June 1, 1952).[4] In the summer of 1954 he played in the National Soccer League (NSL) with Toronto Hungarians.[5] [6] In 1956, he continued playing in the NSL with Toronto Sparta, and was suspended by the league until 1960 after an incident with a referee in late 1958.[7] [8] In 1963, he served as a player-coach for K.F.C. Estonia in the National Soccer League.[9]
After he retired from playing, Gerzeli emigrated to Canada in 1954.[10] He married and moved to the United States where he coached the Brigham Young University soccer program.[11] He was originally baptized as a Roman Catholic, but later converted to Mormonism.
Gerzeli died in Salt Lake City on November 8, 1982, due to hepatitis of the liver.[12]