Giuseppe Moschioni

Giuseppe Moschioni was born on 3 June 1936 in Cividale del Friuli, in north-eastern Italy. He began playing with Seregno in Lombardy, where he was the goalkeeper in the Quarta Serie. With Seregno he won the Promozione Lombardia in 1955 to 1956 and the Campionato Interregionale Seconda Categoria in 1957 to 1958.

In 1959, before joining Brescia, Moschioni played for the Italy team at the Mediterranean Games in Lebanon, which won the gold medal in a squad that also included Bruno Mazzia and Ambrogio Pelagalli. He made two appearances for the national under-21 side that year. He joined Brescia in 1960 and over the next seasons alternated in goal with the first choice keeper Brotto, making 57 league appearances.

In 1963 he moved to Foggia in Serie B. The club, led by the president Domenico Rosa Rosa and the coach Oronzo Pugliese, had one of the most memorable seasons in its history in 1963 to 1964. Moschioni played all 38 league matches and conceded only 27 goals, and Foggia went unbeaten for 24 games, from 3 November 1963 to 3 May 1964, to win promotion to Serie A for the first time.

He made his Serie A debut on 13 September 1964 in Florence, in a 3 to 1 defeat by Fiorentina, and remained first choice as Foggia spent three consecutive seasons in the top division, finishing eighth in the first. On 31 January 1965 Foggia beat Helenio Herrera's Inter 3 to 2 at the Stadio Zaccheria. Moschioni was praised for his saves in the closing minutes, including one from Mario Corso, and the victory became one of the most celebrated in the club's history.

On 5 September 1965, in the opening match of the Serie A season against Juventus at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, he was injured in a collision with the Juventus forward Traspedini in the 16th minute of the second half and replaced by the reserve goalkeeper Gastone Ballarini. It was the first time a substitute goalkeeper had been used in a Serie A match. In January 1967 he was again replaced by Ballarini, at San Siro against Inter, after being struck on the head by a bottle thrown from the crowd. Local reports also recalled that he played without gloves.

Moschioni stayed with Foggia until 1969, making 159 appearances in six seasons, three in Serie A and three in Serie B. He then played a few matches for Pro Patria and ended his career with Como in the 1969 to 1970 season, when the club avoided relegation on the last day.

After his playing career Moschioni settled in Brescia. Mitico Magazine noted that in Foggia he was known as Beppe and in Brescia as Pino, and that he was well liked in both cities. He kept close ties with Foggia, and years later described his time there as the happiest period of his playing life, remembering above all the celebrations for the 1964 promotion. When he turned 90 on 3 June 2026, Brescia and Foggia both marked the occasion.

Moschioni died in Brescia on the evening of 14 October 2026, aged 90, according to l'Attacco and Mitico Magazine, which both reported on the morning of 15 October that he had died the previous evening. Some reports and the Italian Wikipedia give the date as 15 October, the day the news was announced. The cause of death was not made public.

Foggia newspapers and websites, including l'Attacco, FoggiaToday, Mitico Magazine and IoAmoIlFoggia, published tributes on 15 October, as did the national sports site Sportal. No details of the funeral had been reported.

Moschioni is remembered in Foggia as the goalkeeper of the club's first promotion and first Serie A side, and as one of the heroes of the 1965 victory over the Grande Inter. FoggiaToday ranked him among the club's great goalkeepers alongside Raffaele Trentini, Maurizio Memo and Franco Mancini. Beyond Foggia, his name is linked to a first in Italian football: the day in September 1965 when a goalkeeper was replaced by a substitute in a Serie A match for the first time.