Virgilio Fossati is a former Italian

Italy

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 footballer

Football (soccer)

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. He played 97 times for Internazionale and scored 4 goals for the club. Fossati was the Captain of Inter and also the first Inter player to play with Italian national team

Italy national football team

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Fossati's career was ended by World War I

World War I

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. He died in 1918 during a battle of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

between the Italian and Austrian armies.

His brother Giuseppe (born in Milan, 1894) played 43 matches in 3 years with Internazionale.