Attilio Giovannini
Between 1949 and 1953 Attilio Giovannini made a total of thirteen international appearances for the Italy national football team. He didn't manage to score a goal. His national team career began on June 12, 1949, only after the Superga plane crash, in which almost the entire AC Turin team and, due to the club's dominance in Italy at the time, a large part of the national team were killed. So Giovannini was one of the players who rebuilt the Squadra Azzurra after the Superga disaster. National coach Ferruccio Novo put him in the Italian squad for the 1950 World Cup appointed in Brazil. Giovannini played in one game at the tournament. In the defending champions' 2-3 defeat in the first group game against Sweden, Giovannini defended his home country, but he had to watch the second group game against Paraguay from the bench. After these two games, the first World Cup after the Second World War was over for the Italian team, which had started as one of the favorites, after the preliminary round. For Attilio Giovannini, the World Cup chapter also ended after just one match.