SOCCER PLAYER

Gianpiero Combi

1902 - 1956

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Gianpiero Combi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒamˈpjɛːro ˈkombi]; 20 November 1902 – 12 August 1956) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his entire club career at Juventus, where he won five Italian League titles. At international level, he won the 1934 World Cup with the Italy national team, as well as two Central European International Cups (in 1930 and 1935), and an Olympic bronze medal in 1928. Combi was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world during the 1930s, alongside Ricardo Zamora and František Plánička, and is regarded as one of Italy's best ever goalkeepers; in a 1999 IFFHS poll, he was elected Italy's second best goalkeeper of the twentieth century, behind only Dino Zoff, and the sixteenth greatest European goalkeeper of the century, alongside Rinat Dasayev. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gianpiero Combi is the 297th most popular soccer player (up from 318th in 2019), the 1,276th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,462nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gianpiero Combi ranks 297 out of 21,273. Before him are Shumpei Inoue, Kikuzo Kisaka, Shiro Teshima, Hugo Gatti, Raimundo Orsi, and Angelo Schiavio. After him are Tatsuya Shiji, Park Ji-sung, Fernando Hierro, Michael Ballack, Hisao Kami, and Jair da Costa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Gianpiero Combi ranks 52. Before him are Max Ophüls, Felix Wankel, Ryuzo Shimizu, George Ostrogorsky, Luis Barragán, and Mohammad Hatta. After him are Lúcio Costa, Fritz Strassmann, Carlo Levi, Nordahl Grieg, Carlo Gambino, and Mitsuo Fuchida. Among people deceased in 1956, Gianpiero Combi ranks 41. Before him are Daniel Swarovski, Alfredo Ferrari, Joseph Wirth, August Kubizek, Yakub Kolas, and Jan Łukasiewicz. After him are Gustave Charpentier, Lyonel Feininger, Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, Harold Bride, and Mistinguett.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gianpiero Combi ranks 1,276 out of 5,161. Before him are Charles I, Duke of Savoy (1468), Franco Columbu (1941), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Lella Lombardi (1941), Angelo Schiavio (1905), and Giovanni Sartori (1924). After him are Mario Del Monaco (1915), Giuseppe Castiglione (1688), Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes (1267), Antipope Christopher (900), Fra Mauro (1385), and Massimiliano Allegri (1967).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Gianpiero Combi ranks 26. Before him are Andrea Pirlo (1979), Salvatore Schillaci (1964), Gaetano Scirea (1953), Giampiero Boniperti (1928), Vittorio Pozzo (1886), and Angelo Schiavio (1905). After him are Gianluca Vialli (1964), Gian Piero Gasperini (1958), Gennaro Gattuso (1978), Alessandro Costacurta (1966), Giovanni Ferrari (1907), and Valentino Mazzola (1919).

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