Carlo Ceresoli
Carlo Ceresoli was an Italian football goalkeeper.
Club career
Born in Bergamo, Ceresoli played club football in the Italian Serie B with Atalanta, and in the Serie A with Inter Milan, Bologna, Genoa and Juventus.International career
Ceresoli was considered one of the strongest Italian goalkeepers of the 1930s along with Gianpiero Combi, Guido Masetti & Aldo Olivieri. With the Italy [national football team|Italy national team] he played the only qualifying match of the 1934 FIFA World Cup against Greece, and the famous Battle of Highbury against England, in which he saved a penalty from Eric Brook.As Gianpiero Combi retired from football after the 1934 World Cup, Ceresoli got to start the last three matches of the 1933-35 Central European International Cup. Winning his first tournament with the Italy national team.
He also won the 1938 World Cup with the Italy national team, as a back up for Aldo Olivieri, and went on to win a total of 8 caps for Italy.