Baloncheri, Adolfo

Adolfo Baloncheri is a graduate of the Alessandria club. Since 1919, he began to play for the main team in the center of midfield along with Carlo Carcano . His first game for the club was a guest match with Novara on October 12, 1919, in which Alessandria won 1-0 ^[4] .

In 1925, he left the ranks of Alessandria and moved to Torino , which paid 70 thousand lire for the player’s transfer ^[5] . With the Turin club, he achieved the greatest success in his career, winning two Italian championships , one of which was canceled. In Torino, Bolancheri, along with Julio Libonatti and Gino Rossetti, attacked three teams, nicknamed the “Wonderful Trio” for three of them scoring 117 goals in 33 matches in the 1928/1929 season. He completed his career Baloncheri in the club " Komense " in 1933 .

As part of the Italian national team, Baloncheri made his debut on May 13, 1920 with the Dutch national team , which ended in a draw 1: 1 ^[6] . As part of the national team, he participated in 3 Olympics , in 1920 , where he spent 3 games and scored a goal, in 1924 , again Baloncheri held 3 games and scored a goal, and in 1928 , where Italy won bronze medals, and Baloncheri became the best scorer of the team and the second scorer of the tournament, scoring 6 goals in 5 games ^[7] . In total, at the Olympic Games, Baloncheri scored 8 goals in 11 matches, taking 9th place in all pre-war Olympic football tournaments on this indicator ^[8] . In addition, on January 30, 1927, in a match with the Swiss national team, Baloncheri scored the 100th goal in the history of the Italian national team, in the same game he scored two more times, making the 4th hat-trick in the history of “Azzurra Squadra”; that match Italy won 5-1 ^[3] . In 1930, Baloncheri won the Central European Cup , in this tournament his partners in the Torino, Libonatti and Rossetti became the top scorers ^[9] . The last match for the Baloncheri team was on June 22, 1930 with Spain ^[4] . In total, he spent 47 matches for the national team, of which in 28 games he led the national team to the field with a captain's armband ^[5] .

Having completed the player’s career, Baloncheri became a coach. His coaching career began in 1931 with the youth team of the Torino club. Then he worked in many teams, the most famous of which was Milan , which under his leadership held 116 matches ^[4] .

• Champion of Italy : 1928
• Central European Cup Winner: 1930

• Baloncheri matches for Italy