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National football teams

  • Italy's 9th consecutive match without defeat
  • Romeo Menti scored his 1st and Italy's 17th international hat-trick
  • Italy vs Switzerland Head to Head: Italy national football team's 15th victory in 28 matches
  • 50th international appearance of Fredy Bickel for Switzerland

Italy vs Switzerland international football match report

Date, kick-off time:
Sunday, 27 April 1947, 16:00 (UTC+2:00)
National teams, score:
Italy
5-2
Switzerland
Competition:
International Friendly
Referee:
Johann Beck, Vienna /
Austria
Attendance, venue:
45 000, Stadio Comunale, Florence
Goals:
1-0 (12') Valentino Mazzola, 1-1 (23') Jacques Fatton, 2-1 (35') Ezio Loik, 3-1 (58') Romeo Menti, 4-1 (60') Romeo Menti, 4-2 (69') Roger Bocquet (pen.), 5-2 (88') Romeo Menti
Italy national football team line-up in match Nr.161
Managed by technical commissioner Vittorio Pozzo
Player
Caps
Age
Club
Lucidio Sentimenti  
3
26
Juventus FC, Torino
Aldo Ballarin  
2
25
AC Torino, Torino
Virgilio Maroso  
3
21
AC Torino, Torino
Giuseppe Grezar  
4
28
AC Torino, Torino
Carlo Parola  
3
25
Juventus FC, Torino
Eusebio Castigliano  
3
26
AC Torino, Torino
Romeo Menti  
1
27
AC Torino, Torino
Ezio Loik  
4
27
AC Torino, Torino
Guglielmo Gabetto  
2
31
AC Torino, Torino
Valentino Mazzola  
5
28
AC Torino, Torino
Pietro Ferraris  Captain 
13
35
AC Torino, Torino
Switzerland national football team line-up in match Nr.198
Managed by coach Karl Rappan (Austria)
Player
Caps
Age
Club
Erwin Ballabio  
25
28
FC Grenchen, Grenchen
Rudolf Gyger  
9
27
FC Cantonal, Neuchâtel
Willi Steffen  
11
22
FC Cantonal, Neuchâtel
Walter Tanner  
4
FC Grenchen, Grenchen
Olivier Eggimann  
5
28
FC Lausanne-Sports, Lausanne
Roger Bocquet  
6
26
FC Lausanne-Sports, Lausanne
Fredy Bickel  
50
28
Grasshopper Club, Zürich
Robert Hasler  
2
27
FC Biel-Bienne, Biel/Bienne
Lauro Amadò  Captain 
46
35
Grasshopper Club, Zürich
René Maillard  
3
24
FC Lausanne-Sports, Lausanne
Jacques Fatton  
6
21
Servette FC, Genève
Match stats
National team
Players
Average caps
Average age
Clubs
Goals
Cautions
Expulsions
Italy
11
3.909
27.637
2
5
0
0
Switzerland
11
15.182
6
2
0
0
Historical data sources
Feuille d’avis de Lausanne (Lausanne), №97, 28 Apr 1947; Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne
Tribune de Lausanne (Lausanne), №117, 28 Apr 1947; Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne
La Nouvelle revue de Lausanne (Lausanne), №97, 28 Apr 1947; Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne
Die Tat (Zürich), №115, 28 Apr 1947; E-newspaperarchives.ch
La Sentinelle (La Chaux-de-Fonds), №96, 28 Apr 1947; E-newspaperarchives.ch
Comments

pieterkooijman - posted on 15 August 2011 at 12:27:07

Coach: Karl Rappan (Austria) (link: )

karlokolodi - posted on 14 November 2012 at 12:28:49

Italian team (link: )

doeni - posted on 11 February 2016 at 20:06:07

4:2 scored by Roger Bocquet was a penalty. (link: )

dudd - posted on 17 April 2023 at 18:13:20


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Italy vs Switzerland post-match head-to-head
WP
69.7
P
28
W
15
D
9
L
4
GF
65
GA
44
GF/P
2.321
GA/P
1.571
Av attendance
20 606
WP - winning percentage, P - played, W - wins, D - draws, L - losses, GF - goals for, GA - goals against, Av - average
Italy national team matches
Previous match:
Friendly International
Italy vs Austria 3-2
Milan, Sunday 1 December 1946
Next match:
Friendly International
Italy vs Hungary 3-2
Turin, Sunday 11 May 1947
Italy football results
Switzerland national team matches
Previous match:
Friendly International
Portugal vs Switzerland 2-2
Oeiras, Sunday 5 January 1947
Next match:
Friendly International
Switzerland vs England 1-0
Zurich, Sunday 18 May 1947
Switzerland football results
Top Italy goal scorers
1. Giuseppe Meazza (1930 - 1938) - 33 goals
2. Silvio Piola (1935 - 1946) - 30 goals
... Valentino Mazzola (1942 - 1947) - 3 goals
... Ezio Loik (1942 - 1947) - 3 goals
... Romeo Menti (1947) - 3 goals
(correct as of April 27, 1947)
top Italy goal scorers
Top Switzerland goal scorers
1. Max Abegglen (1922 - 1937) - 34 goals
2. André Abegglen (1929 - 1939) - 29 goals
3. Lauro Amadò (1938 - 1946) - 18 goals
... Jacques Fatton (1947) - 3 goals
... Roger Bocquet (1947) - 1 goal
(correct as of April 27, 1947)
top Switzerland goal scorers
Brief match report
Sun. 27 Apr 1947
Stadio Comunale, Florence
Italy 5-2 Switzerland
Goals: Mazzola 12, Fatton 23, Loik 35, Menti 58, Menti 60, Bocquet 69 (11m), Menti 88

Italy: Sentimenti, Ballarin, Maroso, Grezar, Parola, Castigliano, Menti, Loik, Gabetto, Mazzola, Ferraris (c). Managed by Pozzo.

Switzerland: Ballabio, Gyger, Steffen, Tanner, Eggimann, Bocquet, Bickel, Hasler, Amadò (c), Maillard, Fatton. Managed by Rappan (Austria).

Att: 45 000,
Ref: Beck (Austria)

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