Amedeo Amadei
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Amedeo Amadei | ||
| Date of birth | 26 July 1921 | ||
| Place of birth | Frascati, Italy | ||
| Date of death | 24 November 2013 (aged 92) | ||
| Place of death | Frascati, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1936–1938 | Roma | 6 | (1) |
| 1938–1939 | Atalanta | 33 | (4) |
| 1939–1948 | Roma | 228 | (115) |
| 1948–1950 | Inter | 70 | (42) |
| 1950–1956 | Napoli | 171 | (47) |
| Total | 508 | (209) | |
| National team | |||
| 1949–1953 | Italy | 13 | (7) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1956–1959 | Napoli | ||
| 1959–1961 | Napoli | ||
| 1963 | Lucchese | ||
| 1972–1978 | Italy women's | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Amedeo Amadei Italian pronunciation: [ameˈdɛːo amaˈdɛi] (26 July 1921 – 24 November 2013) was a professional Italian football player. He played as a striker.[1] Following his retirement, he worked as a coach. Following his death in 2013,[2] he was one of eleven members to be inducted into the A.S. Roma Hall of Fame.[3] Due to his importance to Roma throughout his career, he was affectionately known by the fans as the "eighth King of Rome".[2]
Club career
Amadei was born in Frascati, near Rome, the son of a baker. He made his professional debut on 2 May 1937 with A.S. Roma at age 15, 9 months and 6 days (the youngest debut in Serie A history). A week later he scored in a 5–1 defeat to A.S. Lucchese Libertas 1905 making him the youngest scorer in Serie A history, a record he holds to this day. He also played in Serie B with Atalanta B.C., Inter and S.S.C. Napoli. He won one Italian title with Roma in the 1941–42 season; this was the club's first ever championship. With A.S. Roma he played 386 matches and scored 101 goals; in his entire career he played 423 matches and scored 174 goals.[2]
International career
Amadei represented the Italian national team on 13 occasions between 1949 and 1953, scoring 7 goals;[4] he participated in the 1950 FIFA World Cup with Italy.[5]
Honours
Club
Individual
References
- ↑ http://www.ilmamilio.it/m/it/attualita/primo-piano/17955-se-n-%C3%A8-andato-amedeo-amadei-addio-fornaretto.html
- 1 2 3 4 Brian Glanville (25 November 2013). "Amedeo Amadei obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- 1 2 "A.S. Roma Hall of Fame: 2013". A.S. Roma. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Convocazioni e presenze in campo: Amadei, Amadeo" (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
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