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Players (31653)

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National football teams

Heaviest defeat of the Malta football team
Malta vs Italy* Head to Head: Malta football team's 1st loss in 2 matches

Malta vs Italy* international football match report

Date, kick-off time:

Sunday, 18 June 1961, 16:45 (UTC+1:00)

National teams, score:

Malta

0-3

Italy*

Competition:

International Friendly

Referee:

Maurice Guigue, Marseille /

France

Attendance, venue:

4 000, Empire Stadium, Gżira

Malta football team line-up in match Nr.6

Managed by national coach Joe Griffiths

Player

Caps

Age

Club

Freddie Mizzi

80'

Hibernians FC, Raħal Ġdid

80' Raymond Cosby

Sliema Wanderers FC, Tas-Sliema

Sunny Anastasi

Hibernians FC, Raħal Ġdid

Louis Theobald

Hibernians FC, Raħal Ġdid

Charles MacKay

Valletta FC, Valletta

Paul Carbonaro

Valletta FC, Valletta

Joe Cini

Sliema Wanderers FC, Tas-Sliema

Eddie Theobald

Hibernians FC, Raħal Ġdid

Joe Zammit

Valletta FC, Valletta

Tony Cauchi

Floriana FC, Furjana

Lolly Borg Captain

Floriana FC, Furjana

Sammy Nicholl

65'

Sliema Wanderers FC, Tas-Sliema

65' Alfred Borg

Valletta FC, Valletta

Match stats

National team

Players

Average caps

Average age

Clubs

Goals

Cautions

Expulsions

Malta

2.769

24.784

Historical data sources

Corriere dello Sport (Rome), №144, 19 Jun 1961; CONI: Biblioteca digitale dello sport

L’Unità del lunedì (Rome), №25, 19 Jun 1961; L’Unità - Archivio storico

Comments

toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:14:26

Maurice Alexandre Guigue, (France)the Mraseille gendarme
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toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:21:12

A hat trick from Danilo Torriglia in the 28’, 55’ and 80’.
(...)

toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:27:46

1 Alfredo Paolicchi (F.B.C Spezia)
2 Giuseppe Barucco (F.C Piacenza) (...)

toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:29:10

Lolly Borg for Malta
Bartolomeo Tarantino for Italy Serie C (Semi Professionisti)

Malta s 45 Years of International Football (publ. 2002) by Joseph A. Sacco pg. 40

toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:40:53

Alfred Borg replaced Sammy Nicholl in the 65th minute.
(...)

toniofarrugia Malta - Other notes posted on 10 April 2011 at 14:47:49

The attendance is reported as 8,000 on Malta s 45 Years of International Football (publ. 2002) by Joseph A. Sacco pg. 40
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Malta vs Italy* post-match head-to-head

25.0

GF/P

0.500

GA/P

2.000

Av attendance

8 358

WP - winning percentage, P - played, W - wins, D - draws, L - losses, GF - goals for, GA - goals against, Av - average

Malta national team matches

Previous match:

Friendly International

Malta vs Tunisia 1-0

Gżira, Thursday 8 December 1960

Next match:

Friendly International

Malta vs Norway 1-1

Gżira, Sunday 5 November 1961

Malta football matches

Brief match report

Sun. 18 Jun 1961
Empire Stadium, Gżira
Malta 0-3 Italy*

Malta: Mizzi (Cosby 80), Anastasi, Louis Theobald, MacKay, Carbonaro, Cini, Eddie Theobald, Zammit, Cauchi, Lolly Borg (c), Nicholl (Alfred Borg 65). Managed by Griffiths.

Att: 4 000,
Ref: Guigue (France)