Football
Italy competed in the Olympic football tournament for the second time. The team beat Egypt in the first round before falling to France in the quarterfinals. In the tournament for second place, the Italians beat Norway before losing to Spain in the consolation semis.
- Team Roster
- Piero Campelli
- Giovanni Giacone
- Antonio Bruna
- Renzo de Vecchi
- Virginio Rosetta
- Gracco de Nardo
- Ettore Reinaudi
- Mario Meneghetti
- Giuseppe Parodi
- Luigi Burlando
- Rinaldo Roggero
- Giustiniano Barucco
- Pio Ferraris
- Giuseppe Forlivesi
- Cesare Lovati
- Enrico Sardi
- Adolfo Baloncieri
- Emilio Badini
- Guglielmo Brezzi
- Aristodemo Santamaria Emilio
- Alevildo de Marchi
- First round
| August 28, 1920 |
Italy | 2–1 | Egypt | Jules Ottenstadion, Ghent Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Paul Putz (BEL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baloncieri 25' Brezzi 57' |
Report | Osman 30' |
- Quarterfinals
| August 29, 1920 |
France | 3–1 | Italy | Olympisch Stadion, Antwerp Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Henri Christophe (BEL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyer 10' Nicolas 14' Bard 54' |
Report | Brezzi 33' (pen.) |
- Consolation first round
| August 31, 1920 |
Italy | 2–1 | Norway | Broodstraat, Antwerp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sardi 46' Badini 96' |
Report | Andersen 41' |
- Consolation semifinals
| September 2, 1920 |
Spain | 2–0 | Italy | Olympisch Stadion, Antwerp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sesúmaga 43' 72' | Report |
- Final rank
- 5th
Read more about this topic: Italy At The 1920 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)