fullname years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals nationalteam height position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
gino cappello iv 1939 1956 1956 -- 1958 -- 1940 1940 -- 1943 1944 1945 -- 28 march 1990 padova milan padova bologna novara 60 74 10 245 22 padua , italy 39 29 6 80 5 italy 1.80 0 forward 11 1949 -- 1954 2 june 1920 gino cappello
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gino cappello

gino cappello -lrb- 2 june 1920 - 28 march 1990 -rrb- was an italian football -lrb- soccer -rrb- player .
a native of padua , he debuted for the italian national team on may 22 , 1949 in a 3-1 win against austria .
he was one of four players to play both games at the 1950 world cup .
four years later he played his last game for the national team at the 1954 world cup in a 4-1 win against belgium .
despite not having the best dribbling skills , he played center forward like a natural .
his main characteristic was to become completely separated from the game for long periods only to suddenly pull off the winning shot or a crucial assist .
after two seasons in serie b with padova , he landed in serie a with milan in 1940 .
in the three seasons at milan he was always the second leading scorer unfortunately milan was not a major contender then .
after the war he went to bologna where he played for ten straight seasons .
he scored 80 goals in 245 games leaving a mark on the fans not to be forgotten .
in his last two seasons he played for novara in serie b. genius and dissolute , gino cappello is also known for having had two life bans ; once in 1952 in a summer game for punching a referee , he served 12 months of a suspension before being absolved .
in 1958 , when he was playing with novara , he decided to quit having reached the age of forty .
