Gino Rossetti Explained

Gino Rossetti
Birth Date:1904 11, df=y
Birth Place:La Spezia, Italy
Position:Forward
Youthyears1:1922–1923
Youthclubs1:Spezia
Years1:1921–1926
Years2:1926–1933
Years3:1933–1937
Years4:1937–1938
Years5:1938–1939
Years6:1939–1941
Clubs1:Spezia
Clubs2:Torino
Clubs3:Napoli
Clubs4:Torino
Clubs5:Spezia
Clubs6:Macerata
Caps1:103
Caps2:212
Caps3:120
Caps4:7
Caps5:26
Caps6:10
Goals1:35
Goals2:134
Goals3:27
Goals4:1
Goals5:9
Goals6:2
Nationalyears1:1927–1930
Nationalteam1:Italy
Nationalcaps1:13
Nationalgoals1:9
Manageryears1:1938–1939
Managerclubs1:Spezia

Gino Rossetti (pronounced as /it/; 7 November 1904 – 15 May 1992) was an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a forward. He jointly holds the record for the all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season at 36 goals with Torino during the 1928–29 season. He competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics with the Italy national football team, where he won a bronze medal,[1] and was top scorer in the 1927–30 edition of the Central European International Cup, where he won a gold medal.

Club career

Spezia

Rossetti began his career as a left-winger, and debuted at the age of fifteen in the 1919–20 championship with Virtus Spezia. After one more season he went to play with Spezia, who played in Division II. On the penultimate day of the 1923–24 season he was involved in a home game against Torino decided by his goal: the game was suspended several times by the referee for problems created by the public. The Piedmontese presented a complaint that was accepted, giving the team the victory in the table and subsequent victory of the group only after the national finals, played without Torino who were considered eliminated in the meantime.

Torino

Rossetti later transferred to Torino, and contributed to the conquest of their first league title in 1926–27 (later revoked) and in 1927–28, scoring 19 goals (17 in group B and 2 in the final group) in the first season, and 23 (14 in group A and 9 in the final round) in the second. With Adolfo Baloncieri and Julio Libonatti he formed "the trio of wonders", Torino's prolific attack during the 1920s.

In the 1928–29 season, he lost a final against Bologna, with the team scoring 117 goals in 33 games (115 in the 30 matches of the first phase and 2 in the 3 final races for the award of the title). Rossetti closed the championship by scoring 36 goals in 30 games, setting the record of all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season, later matched by Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín in the Serie A 2015–16 season.[2] [3] [4]

He remained in Turin until 1933, playing 212 league games and scoring 134 goals.

International career

He was a member of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the 1928 Summer Olympic football tournament.And he was top scorer, when Italy won the 1927–30 Central European International Cup.

Personal life

His brother, Giuseppe, was also a footballer, who was known as "Rossetti I", while Gino was known as "Rossetti II".

Honours

Club

Torino

1927–28

International

Italy

1927–30

Bronze 1928

Individual

1928–29 (36 goals)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gino Rossetti . Olympedia . 12 September 2021.
  2. Web site: La Gazzetta dello Sport | Notizie sportive e risultati live di oggi.
  3. Web site: Higuain: 'I am so happy!'. Football Italia. 14 May 2016. 14 May 2016.
  4. Web site: Higuain makes Serie A history by breaking 66-year-old goalscoring record. goal.com. Chris Davie. 14 May 2016. 14 May 2016.