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 Emigrated
to the United States in 1930 at the age of ten and lived in
Greenwich Village where his father owned a restaurant.
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Personal Information |
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Class of 1977 |
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Born:
June 20, 1920
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Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
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Died:
December 1987
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Corona, Queens, NY |
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He immediately began playing soccer and three years
later signed with the Portuguese F.C. playing in the Brooklyn
League. From 1931
to 1951 he played professional soccer in four countries
including the U.S., Canada, Italy and Cuba, winning the
Metropolitan New York League championship with the Flatbush
Wanderers in 1938. From
1938 Magnozzi played for the Swiss F.C., Newark F.C., Hoboken,
and the German-Hungarians of the German-American League.
In the American Soccer League he played for Paterson
Caledonians, New York Brookhattan and New York Hakoah. His playing days over he founded the Inter Soccer Club
in 1960 and in 1963 his team merged with Giuliana, the oldest
Italian-American team in the country. Later he became a promoter and was instrumental in
staging many important games in New York involving well known
teams from around the world.
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