Giuseppe Casari

Giuseppe Casari ( born April 10, 1922 in Martinengo, Bergamo, Italy Province; † November 12, 2013 in Seriate ) was an Italian football player. At club level for Atalanta, AC Naples and the AC Padova active, he also took part in the Football World Cup 1950 in Brazil with the national team of his native country.

Career

Club career

Giuseppe Casari, born in 1922 in the northern Italian municipality of Martinengo, began playing football at the same in the neighborhood -based club Atalanta Bergamo, where he first went through the youth departments, and finally in 1944 was first appointed to the first team of Atalanta. At the time, Italy's football was in a wartime break and there was no official Championship. Only after the end of the Second World War, the regular championships were resumed in Italy and Atalanta played immediately in the class series A, where one was to be found in the following years. These in these years is a fifth-place finish, achieved in Serie A 1947/48, which to this day is the best placement of the association in the highest Italian league. Giuseppe Casari in those years was goalkeeper of Atalanta and made for this club a total of 170 league games. He remained until 1950 in Bergamo, before the southern Italian team from AC Naples joined.

In Napoli Giuseppe Casari was three years 1950-1953 goalkeeper and brought it in this time 107 League Appearances. With the AC Naples, who was only in 1950 returned to the Serie A, Casari reached quite respectable placements in the upper middle of Italy's top league, especially a fourth place in the season 1952/53, stood out.

Thereafter, the goalkeeper moved again the club and played from then on for the AC Padova and changed so that in the second-class series B. After two years of second division football succeeded Casari with Padua 1955, the promotion to the Serie A. As a freshman could the team of the subsequent Star coach Nereo Rocco keep up with eighth sovereign in the Italian Elite League, but the club as well as Giuseppe Casari not served in that season probably all permitted means. Casari was involved in two minor manipulation scandals in the vicinity of AC Padova during that period, but was not prosecuted. He eventually ended his career after the end of the 1955/56 season at the age of 34 years after he had come in his last station in Padua still to 54 games and had lost his place in time.

National

Between 1948 and 1951 it brought Giuseppe Casari to a total of six appearances in the Italian national football team. A scoring this did not succeed. From coach Ferruccio Novo, he was appointed to the levy of the Italians for the football World Cup in Brazil in 1950, but was not used during the tournament. Casari the connection was most third goalkeeper behind Lucidio Sentimenti of Lazio and Giuseppe Moro from Torino and so missed a bet. The Italian team, however, experienced a disappointing World Cup, which was complete after a defeat against Sweden and a win against Paraguay in the first round.

Two years before the World Cup was Giuseppe Casari also in the squad for the Olympic Summer Games in London and acted in this case as a goalkeeper. Italy but lost in the quarter- finals of the Danish team with 3:5.