Virginio Rosetta

Virginio " Viri " Rosetta ( born February 25, 1902 in Vercelli, Italy, † March 31, 1975 in Turin, Italy ) was an Italian football player and coach.

He is still regarded as one of the best Italian right-back in history.

Playing career

As a player

Virginio Rosetta began his career at the age of 17 years at the club of his hometown, the SG Pro Vercelli. He made his debut, at that time as a striker in this team in the season 1919/20, the first season after the First World War. Rosetta was soon, retrained because of its excellent technical skills and his excellent Paßspiels the defender. His ability to open up on the defensive the game, was in his time as unique. In the 1920/21 season Rosetta won under Guido Ara with the SG Pro Vercelli its first Italian championship in the following season he was able to repeat this success.

For the season 1923/24, Viri Rosetta moved to Juventus. The Turin used to pay a transfer fee of 50,000 Italian lire for him, which made ​​him the first player transferred professionally in Italy. In addition, Rosetta was also rewarded and thus was also the first professional footballer in Italy. With Pro Vercelli he still played entirely without remuneration, because the then president looked at it as an honor to play for the club.

With Juve Rosetta won in season 1925/26, his third Scudetto and was later performers of legendary Juventus team of Quinquennio d' Oro, who won under coach Carlo Carcano 1931-1935 five championships in a row and so set a record that until has not yet been broken today. In 1936, Virginio Rosetta moved at the age of 34, after 13 years and 365 games as a regular player of Juventus, the football back. In his career he won a total of eight Italian titles.

In the National Team

Virginio Rosetta debuted on August 31, 1920, at the age of just 18 years, in the game against Norway at the Olympic Summer Games 1920 in Antwerp in the national team. After his move to Juventus, he was finally Azzurra regular in the Squadra and was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in 1928 and the victorious squad in the European Cup of the national soccer teams 1927 until 1930.

At the World Cup 1934 in their own country, in which he became world champion with Italy under Vittorio Pozzo, Rosetta completed the second-round match against the United States be the last of a total of 52 appearances for Italy.

Coaching career

During the 1935/36 season Rosetta was player-manager of Juventus. In the season 1937/38, could win with this team won the Coppa Italia. Later he worked as a coach at Lucchese and U.S. Palermo.

Achievements

  • World Cup 1934
  • Bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in 1928
  • European Cup Football Teams: 1927-1930
  • Italian Championship: 1920 /21, 1921/22, 1925 /26, 1930/31, 1931/32, 1932/33, 1933/34, 1934/35
  • Coppa Italia: 1937/38 (as coach )
Defender (association football) Player-coach 1930–31 Serie A 1931–32 Serie A 1932–33 Serie A 1933–34 Serie A 1934–35 Serie A
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