Gianpiero Combi

Gianpiero Combi

Combi (left) together with referee Ivan Eklind (m.) and František Plánička (r.) before the 1934 FIFA World Cup Final
Personal information
Date of birth	20 November 1902
Place of birth	Turin, Italy
Date of death	12 August 1956(1956-08-12) (aged 53)
Place of death	Turin, Italy
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1921–1934	Juventus	367	(0)
National team
1924–1934	Italy	47	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Olympic medal record
Representing  Italy
	1928 Amsterdam	Team Competition

Gianpiero Combi (20 November 1902, Turin, Piedmont – 12 August 1956) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his entire club career at Juventus, where he won five Italian League titles. At international level, he won the 1934 World Cup with the Italian national team, as well as two Central European International Cups (in 1930 and 1935), and an Olympic bronze medal in 1928.

Combi was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world during the 1930s, alongside Ricardo Zamora and František Plánička, and is regarded as one of Italy's best ever goalkeepers; in 1999 IFFHS poll, he was elected Italy's second best goalkeeper of the twentieth century, behind only Dino Zoff, and the sixteenth greatest European goalkeeper of the century, alongside Rinat Dasaev.

Combi was born in Turin on 20 November 1902 and played for Juventus' youth side; he debuted in the Italian Serie A on 5 February 1922 in a match against Milan. Combi spent his entire club career with Juventus F.C.; he played 351 games in Serie A, winning five titles - in 1926 (having conceded only 18 goals during the season), 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934 as part of the first golden age of the club with a record of five championship victories in a row, a feat known as Il Quinquennio d'Oro (The Golden Quinquennium).