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Italian footballer
Piero Campelli
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Date of birth
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(
1893-12-20
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20 December 1893
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Place of birth
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Milan
, Italy
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Date of death
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20 October 1946
(1946-10-20)
(aged 52)
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Place of death
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Milan, Italy
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Position(s)
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Goalkeeper
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Years
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Team
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Apps
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(
Gls
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1910?1925
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Inter
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179
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(0)
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1912?1921
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Italy
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11
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(0)
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Piero Campelli
(
Italian pronunciation:
[?pj?ːro
kam?p?lli]
; 20 December 1893 ? 20 October 1946) was an
Italian
amateur
footballer
who played as a
goalkeeper
. At club level, he played for
Inter
, while he competed in the
1912 Summer Olympics
and the
1920 Summer Olympics
with the
Italy national football team
.
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Club career
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Campelli was born in
Milan
. He spent his entire club career with
Inter
, making 179 league appearances for the club between 1910 and 1925, and winning two
Serie A
titles in 1910 and 1920.
International career
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At international level, Campelli was the goalkeeper of the
Italian Olympic squad
in 1912 and played one match in the
main tournament
as well as two matches in the
consolation tournament
. He later also took part at the
1920 Summer Olympics
with Italy. He made a total of 11 international appearances for Italy between 1912 and 1921.
Style of play
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Regarded as a precocious talent in his youth, Campelli was known in particular for his handling of the ball, and was one of the first goalkeepers in Italy to attempt to catch shots or come off his line to claim crosses rather than palming or punching them away, thus contributing to the development and popularisation of this particular goalkeeping technique.
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Honours
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- Inter
References
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