Mario Pizziolo

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Mario Pizziolo (December 7, 1909April 30, 1990) was an Italian football (soccer) player who played as a midfielder.

Pizziolo was born in Castellammare Adriatico, province of Pescara.

Pizziolo started his career in the youth teams of Livorno and Ternana and Pistoiese (1925-1929), before joining the senior team of Fiorentina], where he played between 1929 and 1936, playing 197 matches and scoring three goals.

He played twelve matches for Italy between 1933 and 1936, scoring one goal. He was a part of the 1934 World Cup winning side, in which he played one game, against Spain.

Pizziolo did not play in the final match for Italy, and was not awarded a medal for his performance until 1988, two years before he died, in Florence, at the age of eighty.

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