caps death_date goals birth_place nationalteam nationalcaps manageryears nationalyears birth_date managerclubs article_title name nationalgoals
83 20 april 1942 11 casale monferrato , italy italy 5 1934 -- 1938 1912 -- 191 ? 1 may 1894 roma luigi barbesino
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luigi barbesino

luigi barbesino -lrb- 1 may 1894 -- 20 april 1941 -rrb- was an italian association footballer and manager from casale monferrato in the region of piedmont .
he was a one club man in the truest sense of the term , spending his eight playing seasons at his home town club casale , helping them to win their one and only italian football championship title .
barbesino represented italy at international level , he is the first youngest international player for italy ever , making his debut against sweden at 18 years 2 months .
he represented his country in football at the 1912 summer olympics .
when world war ii began , barbesino abandoned football to serve as a major observer in the regia aeronautica , flying in savoia-marchetti sm .79 trimotors of `` 194ª squadriglia bombardamento terrestre '' -lrb- 193rd bomb squadron -rrb- based with the rest of `` 20 ° stormo '' -lrb- 20th wing -rrb- on sciacca airfield in sicily .
on 20 april 1941 he was an observer on an aircraft flying on the sciacca-kuriate-kerkenna-sciacca course .
while his wingman turned back one-hour after take-off due to bad weather , barbesino 's aircraft was never heard of again .
to this day , he and the entire crew of six are still posted as missing .
