Gino Rossetti

Gino Rossetti

Personal information
Date of birth	(1904-11-07)7 November 1904
Place of birth	La Spezia, Italy
Date of death	15 May 1992(1992-05-15) (aged 87)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1922–1923	Spezia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1921–1926	Spezia	103	(35)
1926–1933	Torino	212	(134)
1933–1937	Napoli	120	(27)
1937–1938	Torino	7	(1)
1938–1939	Spezia	26	(9)
1939–1941	Macerata	10	(2)
International career
1927–1930	Italy	13	(9)
Managerial career
1938–1939	Spezia
Medal record Representing Italy Summer Olympics 1928 Amsterdam Central European International Cup 1927–30 Central European International Cup
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gino Rossetti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒiːno rosˈsetti]; 7 November 1904 – 15 May 1992) was an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a forward. He jointly holds the record for the all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season at 36 goals with Torino during the 1928–29 season. He competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics with the Italy national football team, where he won a bronze medal, and was top scorer in the 1927–30 edition of the Central European International Cup, where he won a gold medal.

Club career

Spezia

Rossetti began his career as a left-winger, and debuted at the age of fifteen in the 1919–20 championship with Virtus Spezia. After one more season he went to play with Spezia, who played in Division II. On the penultimate day of the 1923–24 season he was involved in a home game against Torino decided by his goal: the game was suspended several times by the referee for problems created by the public. The Piedmontese presented a complaint that was accepted, giving the team the victory in the table and subsequent victory of the group only after the national finals, played without Torino who were considered eliminated in the meantime.

Torino

Rossetti later transferred to Torino, and contributed to the conquest of their first league title in 1926–27 (later revoked) and in 1927–28, scoring 19 goals (17 in group B and 2 in the final group) in the first season, and 23 (14 in group A and 9 in the final round) in the second. With Adolfo Baloncieri and Julio Libonatti he formed "the trio of wonders", Torino's prolific attack during the 1920s.

In the 1928–29 season, he lost a final against Bologna, with the team scoring 117 goals in 33 games (115 in the 30 matches of the first phase and 2 in the 3 final races for the award of the title). Rossetti closed the championship by scoring 36 goals in 30 games, setting the record of all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season, later matched by Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín in the Serie A 2015–16 season.

He remained in Turin until 1933, playing 212 league games and scoring 134 goals.

International career

He was a member of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the 1928 Summer Olympic football tournament. And he was top scorer, when Italy won the 1927–30 Central European International Cup.

Personal life

His brother, Giuseppe, was also a footballer, who was known as "Rossetti I", while Gino was known as "Rossetti II".

Honours

Club

Torino

• Italian Football Championship: 1927–28

International

Italy

• Central European International Cup: 1927–30
• Summer Olympics: Bronze 1928

Individual

• Divisione Nazionale – Top scorer: 1928–29 (36 goals)
• Central European International Cup top scorer: 1927–30 (6 goals)

External links

• Gino Rossetti at WorldFootball.net
• Gino Rossetti at National-Football-Teams.com
• Gino Rossetti at EU-Football.info
• Gino Rossetti at Olympedia
• Gino Rossetti at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)