page_title: Giampiero Boniperti
section_title: International career
hierarchical_section_title: Giampiero Boniperti / International career
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Torino, stadio Filadelfia, 8 aprile 1954. Allenamento della nazionale italiana in preparazione dell'amichevole tra Francia e Italia (1-3) dell'11 aprile 1954 a Parigi. Il capitano azzurro, Giampiero Boniperti (a sinistra), ascolta il membro della commissione tecnica italiana, Lajos Czeizler (al centro), durante una pausa della sessione; con loro, Amleto Frignani (a destra).
context_page_description: Giampiero Boniperti is an Italian former football player who played his entire 15 season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He also played for the Italian national football team at international level, and took part at the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the 1952 Summer Olympics with Italy. After retirement from professional football, Boniperti has been a chairman of Juventus and a deputy to the European Parliament.
  A former forward, Boniperti is regarded by several pundits, including Mario Sconcerti, as one of Italy's and Juventus's greatest ever players, and is considered by some in the sport, such as Bruno Nicolè, to be Italy's greatest player of all time; with 182 goals in all competitions, Boniperti was the highest goalscorer in Juventus history for more than 40 years, until his record was bested by Alessandro Del Piero on 10 January 2006.
context_section_description: After playing 14 games in the Serie A league, Boniperti was called up to play for the Italian national football team, making his international debut on 9 November 1947, in a game against Austria; the match ended in a 5–1 loss to the Austrian side. He got even with Austria a couple of years later, when in May 1949 he scored his first international goal for Italy, with a 3–1 victory. Boniperti's managed to achieve 38 caps (24 of which he played as captain) and scored 8 goals for the national team. Boniperti played for Italy in the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup finals (captaining the team in the latter edition of the tournament), as well as in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
caption: Boniperti, Italy's captain, in private with the azzurri's coach Lajos Czeizler in 1954.
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