Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lorenzo Gazzari | ||
Date of birth | 7 January 1907 | ||
Place of birth | Hvar, Austria-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 1998 | ||
Place of death | Florence, Italy | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Left defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1921–1923 | Hajduk Split | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
1923–1928 | Hajduk Split | 10 | (0) |
1928–1931 | US Triestina | 90 | (9) |
1931–1938 | AC Fiorentina | 212 | (0) |
–1943 | Casale | 21 | (2) |
1943–1944 | Asti | ||
National team | |||
Italy B | 3 | (0) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
Lorenzo "Renzo" Gazzari (7 January 1907 in Hvar – 1998 in Florence) was an Italian football player.
He played a total of 152 matches for HNK Hajduk Split between 1921 and 1928, 10 of which in the Yugoslav Championship,[1] and helped the club win its first national championship in 1927. Next, he will move, along his brother Otmar to Trieste to play for U.S. Triestina Calcio where he'll be spoted by the AC Fiorentina´s scouts. He will continue his career in Florence where he will make an astoning career becoming one of the most influential defenders of the club in the 1930s, and having caped three times for the Italian B national team. He was mostly known as left full-back, playing equally well with both of his legs. After ending his playing career, he dedicated to tennis, having become a tennis coach.