Luigi Di Franco

Luigi Di Franco
Personal information
Date of birth (1918-11-18)18 November 1918
Place of birth Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Playing position Midfielder/winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1937–1941 Jedinstvo Beograd
1941–1942 SK Jugoslavija
1942–1943 Venezia 3 (0)
1943–1944 Legnago 11 (0)
1945–1949 Mestrina
1949–1950 Deportivo Pereira[1] 9 (0)
Teams managed
1949–1950 Deportivo Pereira

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Luigi Di Franco (born 18 November 1918 in Rome) is a retired Italian football player.

Playing as a left winger, Di Franco played in the Yugoslav Championship with SK Jedinstvo Belgrade[2] where he got first registered at January 1937[3] and played until 1941.[4] In 1941 he moved to a more popular Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija.[5] With the beginning of the Second World War, the national league was divided, and Di Franco (spelled as Di Franko or Difranko in the Serbian press) finished second with SK Jugoslavija in the 1940–41 season.

With the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Di Franco returned to Italy, signing with the Serie A side Venezia.[6] They finished the 1942–43 season at 13th place.

At the end of the war, in 1945, Di Franco signed with Mestrina, which was playing in the Serie B. However, at the end of the 1946–47 season, they were relegated to Serie C. Luigi Di Franco stayed with Mestrina until 1949.[7]

Di Franco moved to Colombia to become player-manager of Deportivo Pereira during the 1949 and 1950 seasons.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Statistics at Golgolgol.net
  2. ↑ Milorad Sijić: "Football in Kingdom of Yugoslavia", pag. 169, Di Franco is listed at Jedinstvo squads of 1939 and 1940
  3. ↑ Sportista, n1024, Belgrade 20 January 1937, page 2
  4. ↑ 1940-41 Yugoslav Championship season at fkvojvodina.com (open squad details)
  5. ↑ BSK - Jugoslavija Sećanja Na Prvi Beogradski Večiti Derbi by Živko M. Bojanić at GoogleBooks
  6. ↑ Career at enciclopediadelcalcio.it
  7. ↑ Career at enciclopediadelcalcio.it
  8. ↑ Franco García, Wilfrido (13 April 2012). "El Viejo ´Contingente´ en Colombia" [The old ´Contingent´ in Colombia] (in Spanish). El Deportivo.

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