All time top 50 Torino players

Foreigners in bold text.

1. Valentino Mazzola
2. Paolo Pulici
3. Giorgio Ferrini
4. Luigi Meroni
5. Virgilio Maroso
6. Adolofo Baloncieri
7. Claudio Sala
8. Guglielmo Gabetti
9. Francesco Graziani
10. Renato Zaccarelli
11. Ezio Loik
12. Romeo Menti
13. Luciano Castellini
14. Julio Libonatti
15. Júnior
16. Franco Ossola
17. Eraldo Pecci
18. Giuseppe Grezar
19. Eusebio Castigliano
20. Giuseppe Dossena
21. Gino Rossetti
22. Lido Vieri
23. Aldo Ballarini
24. Aldo Agroppi
25. Mario Rigamonti
26. Antonio Janni
27. Valerio Bacigalupo
28. Pietro Ferraris II
29. Roberto Rosato
30. Roberto Cravero
31. Roberto Salvadori
32. Enzo Bearzot
33. Walter Casagrande
34. Danilo Martelli
35. Denis Law
36. Angelo Cereser
37. Gianluigi Lentini
38. Vittorio Caporale
39. Pasquale Bruno
40. Beniamino Santos
41. Patrizio Sala
42. Fabrizio Poletti
43. Abedi Pelé
44. Giovan Battista Moschino
45. Nestor Combín
46. Vincenzo Scifo
47. Giuseppe Virgili
48. Ruggiero Rizzitelli
49. Nello Santin
50. Roberto Mozzini

Europe's greatest footballers 1970-74

1. Johan Cruyff (Holland) 

2. Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany) 

3. Gerd Müller (West Germany) 

4. Günter Netzer (West Germany)

5. Kazimierz Deyna (Poland) 

6. Bobby Moore (England) 

7. Sandro Mazzola (Italy) 

8. Piet Keizer (Holland)

9. Billy Bremner (Scotland) 

10. Gordon Banks (England)

11. Gianni Rivera (Italy) 

12. Hristo Bonev (Bulgaria) 

13. Dragan Džajić (Yugoslavia) 

14. Ralf Edström (Sweden)

15. Wolfgang Overath (West Germany) 

16. Paul Breitner (West Germany)

17. Giacinto Facchetti (Italy)

18. Eusébio (Portugal) 

19. Johan Neeskens (Holland)

20. Dino Zoff (Italy) 

21. Gigi Riva (Italy)

22. Włodzimierz Lubański (Poland)

23. George Best (N. Ireland) 

24. Berti Vogts (West Germany) 

25. Barry Hulshoff (Holland) 

26. Josip Skoblar (Yugoslavia)

27. Jan Tomaszewski (Poland)

28. Grzegorz Lato (Poland) 

29. Jan Gadocha (Poland)  

30. Martin Chivers (England)

Italy ratings in the 1974 World Cup

Ratings: El Gráfico (Argentina).

7,00 Sandro Mazzola
6,67 Dino Zoff, Giacinto Facchetti
5,67 Tarcisio Burgnich
5,00 Franco Causio
4,67 Luciano Spinosi, Francesco Morini, Fabio Capello
4,50 Giuseppe Wilson
4,33 Romeo Benetti, Pietro Anastasi
4,00 Gianni Rivera
3,50 Giorgio Chinaglia

Top rated Serie A players 1976/77

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo.

6,98 Claudio Sala (Torino)
6,83 Renato Zaccarelli (Torino)
6,72 Giovanni Pirazzini (Foggia)
6,71 Roberto Salvadori (Torino)
6,70 Franco Superchi (Torino)
6,66 Giuseppe Wilson (Lazio)
6,64 Sandro Mazzola (Inter), Lamberto Boranga (Cesena)
6,63 Piergiorgio Negrisolo (Verona)
6,62 Francesco Morini (Juventus)
6,61 Giorgio Rognoni (Cesena)

 

Who's better, Giuseppe Giannini or Roberto Baggio? Comments by Sandro Mazzola

(La Gazzetta dello Sport, January 1988)

20 greatest Italian footballers of all time

 

1. Giuseppe Meazza [1910-79]
Inter - Milan - Juventus - Varese - Atalanta - Inter

2. Roberto Baggio [1967]
LR Vicenza - Fiorentina - Juventus - Milan - Bologna - Inter - Brescia

3. Paolo Maldini [1968]
Milan 

4. Gigi Buffon [1978]
Parma - Juventus - Paris-SG - Juventus

5. Franco Baresi [1960]
Milan 

6. Gianni Rivera [1943]
Alessandria - Milan 

7. Silvio Piola [1913-96]
Pro Vercelli - Lazio - Torino - Juventus - Novara

8. Dino Zoff [1942]
Udinese - Mantova - Napoli - Juventus

9. Valentino Mazzola [1919-49]
Tresoldi - Alfa Romeo - Venezia - Torino    

10. Andrea Pirlo [1979]
Brescia - Inter - Reggina - Brescia - Milan - Juventus - New York City

11. Giacinto Facchetti [1942-2006]
Inter

12. Gigi Riva [1944]
Legnano - Cagliari

13. Paolo Rossi [1956]
Como - LR Vicenza - Perugia - Juventus - Milan - Verona

14. Sandro Mazzola [1942]
Inter

15. Gaetano Scirea [1953-89]
Atalanta - Juventus

16. Francesco Totti [1976]
Roma

17. Giampiero Boniperti [1928]
Juventus

18. Fabio Cannavaro [1973]
Napoli - Parma - Inter - Juventus - Real Madrid - Juventus - Al-Ahli (Dubai)

19. Marco Tardelli [1954]
Pisa - Como - Juventus - Inter - St. Gallen

20. Alessandro Del Piero  [1974]
Padova - Juventus - Sydney FC - Delhi Dynamos

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1966 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

  16: Eusébio (Portugal)
  6: Helmut Haller (West Germany), Anatoli Banishevski (USSR), Sandro Mazzola (Italy), Georgi Asparukhov (Bulgaria), Mimis Papaioannou (Greece)
  5: Ferenc Bene (Hungary), Paul van Himst (Belgium), Włodzimierz Lubański (Poland), Jobby Crossan (Northern Ireland)
  4: Geoff Hurst (England), Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany), Valeri Porkujan (USSR), František Knebort (Czechoslovakia), Paolo Barison (Italy), Nikola Kotkov (Bulgaria), Milan Galić (Yugoslavia), Roy Vernon (Wales)
  3: Bobby Charlton & Roger Hunt (England), Uwe Seeler (West Germany), José Augusto & José Torres (Portugal), Valentin Ivanov, Eduard Malofeyev & Slava Metreveli (USSR), János Farkas & Kálmán Meszöly (Hungary), Néstor Combín & Philippe Gondet (France), René-Pierre Quentin & Köbi Kuhn (Switzerland), Jesús María Pereda (Spain), Karol Jokl (Czechoslovakia), Ivor Allchurch (Wales), Giorgos Sideris (Greece), Juhani Peltonen (Finland), Louis Pilot (Luxembourg)
  2: Wolfgang Overath, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff & Werner Krämer (West Germany), Agne Simonsson, Torbjörn Jonsson, Lars Granström & Bo Larsson (Sweden), Vladimir Barkaya & Igor Chislenko (USSR), John Greig & Denis Law (Scotland), Ernest Pol & Jerzy Sadek (Poland), Ole Madsen & Ole Fritsen (Denmark), Erik Johansen & Harald Berg (Norway), Peter Ducke & Jürgen Nöldner (East Germany), Bruno Mora (Italy), Máté Fenyvesi (Hungary), Dragan Džajić (Yugoslavia), George Best (Northern Ireland), Van Nee (Holland), Ivan Mráz (Czechoslovakia), Fevzi Zemzem (Turkey), Viorel Mateianu (Romania), Johnny Thio (Belgium)

Italy: National team topscorers during 50 years.

1962: Altafini & Orlando, 4
1963: Sormani & Rivera, 2
1964: Mazzola, 3
1965: Mazzola, 6
1966: Mazzola, 5
1967: Riva -photo-, 6
1968: Prati, Domenghini & Riva, 2
1969: Riva, 8
1970: Riva, 6
1971: Boninsegna, 5
1972: Riva, 4
1973: Riva, 6
1974: four players with 1 goal
1975: P. Pulici, 2
1976: Bettega, 8
1977: Bettega, 6
1978: P. Rossi, 4
1979: P. Rossi, 3
1980: Graziani, 5
1981: Graziani, 3
1982: P. Rossi, 6
1983: Cabrini & P. Rossi, 2
1984: Altobelli, P. Rossi & Cabrini, 3
1985: Altobelli, 3
1986: Altobelli, 9
1987: Vialli, 5
1988: Vialli, 5
1989: R. Baggio, 3
1990: Schillaci, 6
1991: Vialli, 3
1992: R. Baggio, 6
1993: R. Baggio, 5
1994: R. Baggio, 5
1995: Zola, 7
1996: Casiraghi, 5
1997: Del Piero, 4
1998: Vieri, 6
1999: F. Inzaghi, 3
2000: F. Inzaghi, 5
2001: F. Inzaghi, 4
2002: Del Piero & Vieri, 5
2003:  F. Inzaghi, 6
2004: Vieri, 3
2005: Toni, 5
2006: Gilardino & Toni, 4
2007: Toni, 4
2008: Di Natale, 4
2009: Gilardino, 6
2010: Quagliarella, 3
2011: Cassano, 4
2012: Balotelli, 4

Topscorer 6 times: Riva
5 times: P. Rossi
4 times: R. Baggio & F. Inzaghi
3 times: Mazzola, Altobelli, Vialli, Vieri & Toni
twice: Bettega, Graziani, Cabrini, Del Piero, Gilardino.

Memory Lane: Football's greatest one club players.

According to Guerin Sportivo.

1. Gigi Riva (-photo- , Cagliari)
2. Ryan Giggs (Man United)
3. Paolo Maldini (Milan)
4. Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus)
5. Francesco Totti (Roma)
6. Giacinto Facchetti (Inter)
7. Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)
8. Javier Zanetti (Inter)
9. Giancarlo Antognoni (Fiorentina)
10. Gianni Rivera (Milan)
11. Sandro Mazzola (Inter)
12. Bobby Charlton (Man United)
13. Franco Baresi (Milan)
14. Giacomo Bulgarelli (Bologna)
15. Giorgio Ferrini (Torino)
16. Giovanni De Prà (Genoa)
17. Pelé (Santos)
18. Francisco Gento (Real Madrid)
19. Giampiero Combi (Juventus)
20. Giuseppe Bergomi (Inter)
21. Giuseppe Bruscolotti (Napoli)
22. Carles Puyol (Barcelona)
23. Raúl (Real Madrid)
24. Gaetano Scirea (Juventus)
25. Jackie Charlton (Leeds United)