Giacomo Mari was an Italian

Italy

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 football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player.
Giacomo Mari is one of five Italian players (the others are Giampiero Boniperti

Giampiero Boniperti

Giampiero Boniperti is an Italian former football player who played his entire career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961. He also played for the Italian national football team...

, Gino Cappello

Gino Cappello

Gino Cappello was an Italian football 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...

, Ermes Muccinelli

Ermes Muccinelli

Ermes Muccinelli was an Italian football player.Muccinelli was born in Lugo di Romagna, in the province of Ravenna. During his career he played for Juventus F.C. and S.S. Lazio , winning two Scudettos and one Coppa Italia...

 and Egisto Pandolfini

Egisto Pandolfini

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) that played in both the 1950

1950 FIFA World Cup

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 and 1954 World Cups

1954 FIFA World Cup

The 1954 FIFA World Cup, the fifth staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was chosen as hosts in July 1946. The tournament set a number of all-time records for goal-scoring, including the highest average goals scored per game...

. Tireless, Giacomo Mari was a classic halfback waiting in the folds of midfield ready to halt the attack of the opposing forwards and wings. After three years of breaking in at Atalanta

Atalanta B.C.

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 in his early career, he played four seasons with Juventus winning two championships next to the great Carlo Parola

Carlo Parola

Carlo Parola , was an Italian football player and coach, from Turin. He is most famous for his time with Juventus with whom he played over 300 games with, he also had brief spells with Lazio and Midland in Argentina before going into management.He is also famous for being the author of one of the...

. Before the 1954 World Cup he went to Sampdoria

U.C. Sampdoria

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 and then concluded playing in Serie A

Serie A

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 with Padova

Calcio Padova

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. With the national team he debuted at the 1948 London Olympics

Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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, against Paraguay

Paraguay national football team

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 at the 1950 World Cup and against Switzerland

Switzerland national football team

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at the 1954 World Cup.