Angelo Schiavio
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| Full name | Angelo Schiavio | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 15 October 1905 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bologna, Italy | |||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 April 1990 (aged 84) | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1922–1939 | Bologna | 179 | (109) | |||||||||
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| 1925–1934 | Italy | 21 | (15) | |||||||||
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| 1933–1934 | Bologna | |||||||||||
| 1946 | Bologna | |||||||||||
| 1953–1958 | Italy | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Angelo Schiavio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo ˈskjavjo]; 15 October 1905 – 17 April 1990) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Schiavio spent his entire career with Bologna, the club of the city where he was born and died; he won four league titles with the club, and is the team's all-time highest goalscorer. He won the 1934 FIFA World Cup with Italy, finishing as the tournament's second highest goalscorer; he also won a bronze medal with Italy at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Following his retirement, he later also managed both Bologna and the Italian national side.
Regarded as one of Italy's greatest strikers, he was 178 cm tall and weighed 69 kg; he made his name as a quick and powerful centre-forward, with good technique, who was an accurate finisher with both feet, and who often used physical force to score goals. In 2012, he was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.
Schiavo, who died in April 1990 at the age of 84, was also the last surviving player from Italy's 1934 World Cup winning team.
Schiavio spent his entire career with Bologna. He began his career with the first team during the 1922–23 Prima Divisione, playing 6 league games (11 in total) and scoring 6 goals; he made his debut for the club in 1923, at the age of 17. At that time, the Italian league was organised into several different regional groups. He continued to play (and score) regularly for Bologna, breaking into the starting line-up permanently at the age of 19, and in 1925 Bologna won the first league championship in their history, while Schiavio contributed to the victory with 16 goals in 27 games. The last season played in this "grouped" format was the 1928–29 season; that season, Bologna won their second championship, with Schiavio averaging more than a goal per game with 30 goals in 26 games – his most prolific domestic campaign.
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