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|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Wilson | ||
| Date of birth | 27 October 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Darlington, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1964–1965 | Cirio | 18 | (0) |
| 1965–1969 | Internapoli | 138 | (0) |
| 1969–1979 | Lazio[1] | 296 | (4) |
| 1978–1979 | New York Cosmos | 16 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1974 | Italy | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Joseph (Giuseppe) "Pini"[2] Wilson (born 27 October 1945 in Darlington, England, UK) is a former British-Italian footballer. Although born in Northern England, Wilson played the majority of his football career in Italy.
At club level he played as a defender for Internapoli and Lazio, as well as representing the Italian national football team three times in 1974.
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He was born in Darlington to a Neapolitan woman Lina Di Francesca and Dennis Wilson, a Briton who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army. When Joseph Wilson was just six months old, his family moved to Naples, his mother's hometown as she found it hard to settle in the UK due to the cold winters.[3]
He started his career with Internapoli in 1964-65 and he played for the side more than 150 times.[4]
He joined SS Lazio in 1969. At Lazio he would enjoy his most notable spell as a footballer, staying with them for a decade playing over 300 games for them.[4] This was a successful period for the club who won their first ever Serie A title in 1973–74 as well as the Coppa delle Alpi in 1971.
The time he spent at Lazio gained him a place in the Italian national football team, and he was in the squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup. As his career wound down, Wilson spent a season in the United States, playing in the NASL league with the New York Cosmos during 1979.[2]
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